to my teachers
Dear Staff at all my schools, in particular the ones at comprehensive school,
Having spent years being told by you lot that I was thick, lazy,idle or just plain stupid I would like you all to know the reason I didn't get up to much at school even though I was verbally extremly gifted is called dyslexia. Yes it's a recognised condition world wide and you who claimed to know everything had never even heard of it. Of course the obvious exception was the old head of sixth form (Mr Y) who wanted to get me tested but the headmaster didn't believe in such a fad. So I should like to take this chance to say a great big feck you to one and all, thanks for making my life even more miserable than it already was and despite your best efforts I have made a success of myslef and now out earn the lot of you. I will see you again at your funerals where I'll be the one p@ssing down you open graves.
Yours,
big, daft and ginger.

P.S. Apologies for the destinct lack of humour but some wounds still bear scars.

oh and never mind the length madam, just feel the quality!
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sat 6 Mar 2010, 20:12, 16 replies)

*extremely
*myself

dyslexia is a myth
(Dr. Geoff Honkington woof, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 20:22, closed)

Is dyslexia a root cause of obnoxiousness and unwarranted arrogance?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 20:31, closed)

not really
no it's not usually but being told you'll never amount to anything, ever for years does tend to build resentment. When they've told you that the best in life you can ever hope for is to sign on or at best a "McJob" then having a good job and earning a high salary does matter. If it is obnoxious or arrogant to want to tell the people who roundly condemnded you for years then hands up, I'm guilty (kind of thought the point of this QOTW was to TELL people stuff??.) I have since been given the help I should have got and have nothing but admiration and respect for those who helped me. Also if you read it I did exclude the one teacher who tried to get me the assistance I needed, sadly he was unable to do so. He's a top fella. Oh and I don't have a company car - anyone who's looked in to the taxes would take the allowance instead.
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sat 6 Mar 2010, 21:59, closed)

Luckily
I went to a school crap enough that people still considered my attempts at work in the 90th percentile of the year, despite having undiagnosed dyspraxia.

Go to uni. They assess you for free, and you can go to workshops and study sessions that help you work around what you have. That really made a massive difference for me.

But yeah, many years of being told you're crap can get to you: although for me that was from home and not school...
(mmmm curry doesn't really understand this sig lark, Mon 8 Mar 2010, 0:04, closed)

What's your company car?

( hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 20:32, closed)

I wouldn't get carried away there. You are still ginger =(
( Ibstock, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 21:33, closed)

fair comment
faithless - I am, like I said my life was miserable enough already! ;-)
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sat 6 Mar 2010, 22:01, closed)

Is your successful career...
pissing in open graves? Nice work if you can get it.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 22:46, closed)

It's a living, mind you the cremations are a bitch!!
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:35, closed)

know what you mean
School didn't suit me the best for various reasons.
Had the occasional backward teacher blame me for not fitting in.
It's amazing how many sad twats take up teaching young people.
(DonnyBoyBelfast, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 0:41, closed)

Crippling Undiagnosed Dyslexia?

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:20, closed)

But you out earn the lot of them.
They must've done something right, you stupid dyslexic.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:34, closed)

I see your point
I get what you're driving at; maybe they have given me the determination and pig headedness to get on regardless. It is a useful gift, maybe I was too harsh.........
(The kneeling rifleman Is slowly getting there.., Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:39, closed)

No, pissing on strangers' graves is entirely fair
and not at all the remarks of a bitter old twit.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:42, closed)

pah
A real man would drop trou and curl down a steaming pile of justice onto the coffins of the people who so cruelly abused him at school. Mere micturation is the behaviour of a man who'll never amount to shit in this life or the next.
( CaptainCrackerjack live trout, slow motion, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 14:18, closed)

arf

www.b3ta.com/questions/letterstheywillneverread/post653372

One minor point - don't they typically fill the grave during the funeral? Wouldn't everyone still be milling around the graveside? I've never been to a burial, so I'm not certain - but I'd imagine the horrified looks on the faces of the bereaved as you take a long hot piss onto the dearly departed would be a joy to behold.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 7 Mar 2010, 12:58, closed)