> I find you have to be very up-front about it though.
>
> The biggest problem with geting people to help me with forms is if
> they find out I got a degree and enough O and A levels to wallpaper a
> room with. The classic question is 'If you can't fill out a simple
> form correctly, how the hell did you get a maths degree?', to which
> the answer is 'Bloody hard work...'
>
> If the shop/bank isn't cooperative about helping me I take my business
> elsewhere, and make sure that the relevant head office knows why I did
> that. This of course didn't help when I was on benefit, the famiily
> credit form is an utter nightmare and in the end I got a friend to
> help me.
>
Working together with my son, also dyslexic, I have found we can make one
effective form filler. If the scribe reads out the questions, writes the
answers as they are given and keeps the *beneficiary* on task this can
work quite well.
The worst thing about Social Security type forms are the long questions
with "If you answer NO, go to Qn 17b" etc. Just pages of panic making
detail that turn out not to apply in your case.
Regards
Ted
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