Canberra Disability Review - Autumn 2022

“I first realised that my grades were suffering in my first year at ANU. I attributed it to the change of environment that university life brought. I was put on academic probation in my second year because I’d failed so many courses (technically during my first year, but I neglected checking my email for a few months). That was when I started looking for a way out. I've got a delightful combination of ADHD and Dyslexia, which makes reading any amount of dry text laborious. ANU also has several layers of obfuscation to any direct link to help, which I hope isn’t malicious but ignorant design. So when O-week came around and I started looking; I couldn’t find anything. I didn’t know what words to google, what departments there were. Nothing. So I gave up.

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