I live and work in Birmingham, I do a lot of voluntary work. I work for the coalition as a volunteer on their management team. And I also run my own little company of volunteers helping disabled people and elderly people with any problems they have. I try to sort them out for them.

When I left school, I left without any reading and writing skills at all. And through my learning in life, it didn’t really matter, because you learn how to cope with these things, you’ve got coping skills. And I always say that we’re our own worst enemy, because of these coping skills we don’t think we need the reading and writing part of it. But I’ve got MS myself, and I had to pack in work. And thinking about what I could do, it all revolved around reading and writing. So I thought I’d better try and get these skills on. And I was tested for Dyslexia, and I found out that I had that pretty bad. My reading and writing skills are still not very good, but I go to a lesson at the Clock Tower Arben on a Thursday afternoon for reading and writing. And now I’ve started going on one evening a week, again trying to get my writing and reading skills up, by using a computer, which helps me with my computer skills as well.

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