Dee+Ls’s+OpEd+Article

If someone ask me if I have a disorder or an impairment I want to hit them (and in my head I doo!!!!!). It’s not that I hate him or her it just plain rude. I mean I have been living with a “disease” for quite some time now. It is not a disease that can be cured by our magical pills or be cured with a trip do the doctors. It’s a disease that I have been fighting my entire life, an ongoing battle with no end in sight. It a rare disease, so rare and so devastating to ones health and carrier, so terrifying that the name mention of its name send shivers down people spines. The name IS NEOLOGICALPHOBIA otherwise known as Cannotspellformylifeitus and it has been haunting me since I first started preschool. The doctors inform my parent of this horrible disease so my parents change my name so that I would be able to spell my name. My real birth name was going to be DEE-SMITH-JOHNSON-WILLIAMS-JONES-BROWN-DAVIS-MILLER-WILSON-BARTELL-MOORE-TAYLOR-ANDERSON-THOMAS-JACKSON-LUCAS. I know this is quite a mouthful, but due to my parent fear of NEOLOGICALPHOBIA, aka Cannotspellformylifeitus they just shorten it to Dee Bartell Lucas. With this disease school life was all ways harder for me than most kids my age, being scared of words hampered my leaning paste. This is why I have such a hard time with spelling. So the next time you see me and ask me if I can’t spell just remember I am suffering from the “disease” known as NEOLOGICALPHOBIA, aka Cannotspellformylifeitus and just walk away…..