Beyonce shares her experiences for Learning Disability Week poetically

For Learning Disability Week, we have been sharing a range of different content to highlight the very special occasion, via our social media channels.

Here is Beyonce, a health and social care student at our James Watt College, giving her own raw and personal insight through poetry:

Here are the lyrics for those of you who want to take a deeper delve into her poetic talents:

What is it like to live like this:

“I have lived this way for a lot of days
I have felt this way and yet.
As I get ready to read aloud where, has my confidence gone
everyone is laughing, yet the teacher says to carry on
where, has my confidence gone.

It has disappeared in stupid-ness of my own silly belief,
in the belief someone so close yet so far taught me
I grew up to the sound of someone speaking.
Are. you. stupid….
In fact originally I did not believe I was but as they continued and continued, it became
the most familiar sound. In fact, I expected them to say, are you stupid. Are. you. dumb.

My expectation were given away in hopes that they would say it and they said it,
I was proud,
I’ll prove them right – that’s what I thought now.

But I did not know there was a mysteries, yet to be uncovered.
That I was yet, to be diagnosed.
It’s almost time to pull the covers (phrase acting open the curtains)

Break

To the sound of someone speaking
The teacher continues, “carry on”
but, the words aren’t even there,
the words aren’t even gone
Turns out I’m reading all three sentence in one.

What shall I do if this sentence doesn’t make sense to me,
but when everyone else reads, their voices were as clear as can be.
What if this sentence, only doesn’t make sense, to me.  

The teacher says “carry on”

As I watch familiar words become unfamiliar,
my heart whispers
I cannot continue, just be made fun of.

What would I become
A clown or a joker
A class clown for all to see – but I refuse to do that because that is just not me.

The sound of my own thoughts overtake the sound of personification
The teacher calls continue,  
I speak and they, laugh

The greatest thing about this disability is that it never affected my ability to read the word of love, the word of God, because that word was never based on my own understanding.
I was simply being taught by the spirit of the living God.

I had to realise I truly couldn’t learn alone and with God on my side,
I will never truly be alone.

I will trust in God because He has said He will restore me and He will not lie.
I’ll trust in Him all my might.”