Cheer From Head To Toe is dyslexic

Hello my name is Caroline and I am the creator of Cheer From Head To Toe I have a small team that work along with me but I am the main contributor to the many articles you have read.

Let start at the begging, a very good place to start.  Anyone who knows me personally knows how much I love cheer.  Ever since, I went to the cinema and watch Bring It On the movie I wanted to be a part of this sport. I wanted to tumble, jump and be part of a team. I join my university cheerleading team and my love for cheer blossom and then I found youtube and my love went into the stratosphere.  I would spend hours watching videos and reading any information I could find.

In 2011 after desperately wanting to attend a cheer summer camp I went on line and try to find one and there was nothing in the UK. I try to find any information about British cheer and I couldn’t.

This annoyed me because I knew there was information out their but it wasn’t easy to find so. I decided to create a blog talking about things I would want to know such competition and cheer camps, cheer fashion and topic I found interesting.

Gradually over time the Blog has grown and I have now got a small team of people who help me but the main articles are generally written by me.  I write about topic that I feel are interesting and thing that I feel people need to hear about in the UK. I write because I love to write which is funny because I Dyslexic.

Being dyslexic means I having a learning difficulty that affects the way I read and write.

This mean it takes longer for my brain to process information. I especially have trouble matching the letters you see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters those sound make.  And when you have trouble with that step, it makes all the other steps harder.

I Struggle severally with understand punctuation, grammar, spelling. Its struggle and something I feel embarrassed and cursed because, I think why me. Why no matter how hard I try, do I still make spelling mistakes. Yes I proof read and when I can, I get people to check my work but people have their own lives and don’t always have time.

Don’t get me started on spell check, spell check is not a friend to a dyslexic person it helps you spell words but it may not be the word you want to spell. I once wrote a whole article with the word brain when I was meant to say Brian and didn’t even notice. I can laugh about it now but at the time I felt so embarrassed and little shame that I should have notice and why I didn’t.

Dyslexia  doesn’t affect my  intellect but it hard for me to convey the way I truly feel in the written word because, what I think I have written is generally not what I have actually put on the page for you guys to read.

I’m writing this because I have seen people commenting saying that my spelling is bad which is and those words hurt. To you these are comments will be forgotten by tomorrow but for me they will stay with me because they bring up my insecurity about my writing, I can’t help that I’m dyslexic but you can chose your word more carefully.

Why do I blog you say because I love cheerleading it’s my passion I love everything about it and most of the time I get positive feedback so I must be doing something write.

I love so many things about cheer. I love the learning new skills and pushing my body to limit, I love the challenges and struggle you go through as a team and when you come out the other side, your more boned than ever. I love uniform, the hair and I love historical moments that are happening in the UK that I get to witness with no much joy in my heart. You learn respect, discipline, team work, determination and commitment to name a few. I have met some of my best friends through cheer and done things, I could imagine me doing.

I just want people to know that I going to keep writing because I love and it’s my passion and it’s what bring me joy and I always going to be dyslexic so I always going to make spelling mistakes but please remember that I’m person and your words hurt me.

I will try my best to look into equipment that can help me to be more aware of my spelling errands but as I go on that journey please be patience.

If anyone knows of any tools or websites that help people with dyslexia, please let me know.

I love what I do all and I want to is to help highlight how amazing British cheer.

To all the people who are dyslexic and struggle with writing and reading like I do keep your head and stay strong. Don’t stop doing what you love because of what other says.

Until next guys

Love

Caroline