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Does anyone know why I keep getting double copies of documents like this one? Celia At 09:46 AM 6/13/97 +0100, you wrote: > >>> 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. > >Oh heck, yes. I turn to question 17b (usually 3 pages away) and then >panic over whether it was 17d or 17b and by the time I've figured that >one out I've forgotton whether I answered yes or no to the orignal >qusetion. If I have to fill in a form I like it all to be on one page >so that I can see it all at once, that makes it easier to check back >on things I just wrote. This is because, probably like many >dyslexics, I have the short term memory span of a goldfish (who must >be permenantly surprised as their memory only lasts 3 seconds - you >can imagine them swimiming round their goldfish-bowl going 'wow, a >rock!' over and over again.) > >I'm currently trying to build up enough impetus to fill out my tax >return - its fairly complicated because I changed my main job twice in >the last tax year, *and* I did some self-employed stuff. I can't >afford an accountant to do it for me and I'm actually kind of worried >that some omission on my part will lead to me getting a fine. The >Inalnd Revenue do over some free software to help, but you can't use >it if you've been self-employed as it doesn't cover that case. :-( >The sad thing is, I've already paid all the tax I owe (inc. the >self-employed stuff), I just can't face the form... > >--Emma > >*********************************************************** >* Emma Gottesman * 'One should always be * >* Research Engineer\Mathematician * a little improbable' * >* [log in to unmask] * - Oscar Wilde * >*********************************************************** > > > Welfare & Information Officer, King's College London, Macadam Bldng, London WC2R 2LS Tel: 0171 873 2530 Fax: 0171 873 2754 Produced using voice activated software; apologies for uncorrected errors. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%