Dyslexic Brian’s Exercise 3 (Step Four)
Step four: Explore the negative aspect of each issue
The next thing to do is to start exploring the issue you have decided to focus on by looking at why you feel the way you do about it.
A good way of doing this is to write about the issue from the third person perspective, in other words as if someone you know really well was writing about you and the issue being focused on. The reason for doing this is that it will help you not get too bogged down with the negative emotions that may be attached to the issue.
Here is an example of what Antonio would have written several years ago:
Being dyslexic (1)
“Antonio hates being dyslexic. He hates not being the same as other people at college who can write assignments without putting in so much effort. He hates how some of the people on his course treat him differently because of his dyslexia….”
The trick here is to write down as much as you can until you can’t find anything more to write about. When you have finished this move on to the next one and do the same. Do this until you have completed each sheet.
