{"id":655,"date":"2020-08-28T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T03:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/?p=655"},"modified":"2020-09-09T13:05:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T03:35:50","slug":"seizing-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/2020\/08\/28\/seizing-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Seizing Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/strong>2020 GRADUATE<\/em>
\nAlexander Dyson <\/strong>
\nBachelor of Business (Marketing) and Bachelor of Psychological Science<\/p>\n

Through an extraordinary journey, Alexander Dyson has strived to reach beyond the limits imposed by a disability, and now has a qualification that enables him to help others overcome their disabilities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alexander was clinically diagnosed with ADHD\/Autism in his youth, which severely compromised his school education, yet he has still been able to complete a double degree in Business Marketing and Psychology at Flinders University.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t an easy path, but he had the necessary support to make it through \u2013 and has learned much about himself and grown as a person in the process.<\/p>\n

\u201cI needed to complete the Flinders University Foundations Program because I was a Year 9 high school dropout. It helped me understand and comprehend academia,\u201d remembers Alexander. \u201cSuccess comes after trying and multiple failures \u2013 but I wasn\u2019t setting out to fail at Flinders.\u201d<\/p>\n

He endured further personal difficulties while studying, but found solace on campus through the Students Association, and especially the Oasis Centre, where he made many international friends.<\/p>\n

Alexander went on to enjoy many highlights during his studies, being selected for the BGL consultative committee, voted in as Sponsorship Director for the Psychology Students Association, being a mentor and tutor to his peers, and receiving an invitation to study Business Honours.<\/p>\n

Applying his university research into creating a business start-up, Alexander is now providing support and counselling to others through his own business which is working with special populations. He plans to continue studying a postgraduate psychology program, with the eventual aim of being able to open a second private practice in another state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI vowed to myself that my disability would not hold me back, and that instead I would go forward and seize every opportunity,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Find out more on the Flinders Foundation Studies<\/a> pathway that Alexander completed, and t<\/strong>he student support available through <\/strong>Flinders University Student Association (FUSA)<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and <\/strong>Oasis<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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