I decided I didn't want to disclose that I had dyslexia when I had to do my teaching experience. I'd devised all these strategies to deal with it and I didn't want the school to discriminate against me even before I'd started.

For me, disclosing that I had dyslexia was the best thing I ever did, because it meant that my spelling mistakes were ignored in the exams and that I could use a laptop and get extra time, it was really about 'levelling the playing field' so I could have an equal footing with other students.