My Dyslexia In Elementary School

I embrace that learn and process information differently than most kids, but my dyslexia is often falsely considered a disability that cripples my potential to do well and how intelligent I am. In elementary school, more specifically third grade, in many instances I misspelled simple words and I frequently mixed up my “b’s” and “d’s”. I would spell words phonetically, so words like “said” would be spelled like “sed,” and words like “bed” would frequently be spelled like “deb”. Not to mention how frustrating it was for me to understand the difference between my left and right. Reading long passages took ten to fifteen minutes longer to understand than what was actually allotted. If I wanted to read aloud to my peers I could rarely read the words without stopping and stuttering on every other word in order to read the words correctly; in the rare cases I could read the words on the page with little stuttering I could not understand what I was reading, I was then forced to go back and read the passage two or three more times to understand the basics of the story.
Towards the middle of third grade, my parents had me tested for a learning disability, and the results came back that I had dyslexia, but no one told me. My parents knew I had dyslexia, and my teachers were made aware that I had dyslexia, but I was still ignorant to my disability. Even though no one told me about my diagnosis, teachers began giving me extra time on my assessments. Though I still struggled to grasp certain concepts, I always got extra time on my assessments and in-class