Coping strategies

Alex: I’ve surrounded myself with a very close group of friends and family, very supportive friends and family, which have helped me because I can get them to proofread my work or give me tips as to how… their tips.

A lot of my friends have been to university, maybe at a campus-based university, and so I use a lot of their study skills and try and develop which ones they think worked for them into something that will work for me.

I’ve got a lot of coping strategies. I’ve known about my dyslexia for a long time, and it’s meant that I’ve been able to develop coping strategies for a long time, so not being afraid to have my coping strategies and say they're my coping strategies, this is how I’m going to cope with my dyslexia has been a real benefit, not sort of going, Oh well, this other person might know me better, well I know myself the best, so I’m going to do what I know works for me. And having the confidence to do that is a big leap in my study skills.