Mechele, Your experience is both sad and inspiring. I think it is too bad that you had to struggle so much during your own educational career because no one in your environment understood the very real difficulties you were having. But I love hearing that you were able to "make lemonade out of lemons" and that you have not only harnessed your disability-related symptoms, but found a way to make them work for you. The experience of NEEDING to think outside the box for your own endeavors has ALLOWED you to think outside the box for others -- and I am sure many students will be better off for your presence in *their* academic careers. Dr. Jane Jarrow