Question about dyslexia

Has anyone got some extra advice or more coping mechanisms to counter the effect of dyslexia? I'm nearing sixty years old and at work they still want me to preform at the level when I was twenty. It's getting more and more difficult. I'm wacked when I get home after six o'clock. Not that I did do tremendous physically efforts, but the amount of concentration there's required at my workplace from 9 till 6 is getting me so tired. Then I have to do my dinner, do some housework, going to see my dad daily who's ninety next year. Is there anyone on here who has some ideas that I haven't been trying yet? Does getting into better shape help with that too perhaps? I'm not young nor a spring chicken, but I would appreciate anything to help me a bit more. I like to stay around in order to be a constant help to my dad, and not be a constant burden to anyone else

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0uijaFinger

What do you do?
There are so many tools we use at work to support staff and pupils.

Ask for all text to be in calibri - its a dyslexia friendly font.
Any screen based things to be on pale yellow or light blue.
Same for print outs.
You can get coloured films - amazon - for screens or placing over pages for reading.

val70 · 56-60

@0uijaFinger At work they're not at all willing to provide anything. They want me out. It's because I'm old and at times I'm not wanting to do the activities. I even get extra work from my boss not to suggest titles of books to buy and such. I'm kept busy that way. It's very much belittling me. Was just asking what I can do to be less tired without all the aid. I'm 56 years old and had to get someone to diagnose myself over then years ago because the same boss didn't believe that I had dyslexia. The expert told me that I was her worst case operating at my level. Nothing to do with intelligence, I know. Just want to keep myself a bit more healthy for the next decade