What is your out look

Can a disadvantage be used as an advantage? Sometimes or never?

I saw that question here at ditto. It is something that I try to do. I mean. As much as I moan and winge. I am actually a positive person mostly. So this is how I answered it.

Yes and I like to do that. Like for example my husband is fed up that he has
been moved to a new team at work. One were he doesn't now the product very well.
I keep reminded him it is a challenge and a chance to learn not something to get
all bothered about. Another example I have been working with a team who have not
really supported me very well. Rather than complain about there lack of
information making my life difficult I have thought about it that it has force
me to make decisions and judgements and now I feel more confident that I can
make the right ones. Because they dropped me in the deep end with everything I
learn more than I think I would of otherwise.

See I told you I was positive rely. I also rote something similar here at being dyslexic. The poster was saying that she didn't want to be labelled if she was dyslexic. Well fact is you do get labelled but you can kind if turn it around and prove that some of the myths about dyslexia are wrong.

Fact is you do get labelled sometimes but I find I have alot of fun proving them
wrong. People at unit thought been dyslexic meant you could not read at all. So
when they gave us sum reading homework to do they were shocked when I did it as well as the others in class. They didn't now I had gone to the computer lab and
scanned it in and then had a program read it back to me LOL. I proved to them
that sometimes when the help is there I can work at the same speed nearly as
everyone else. When people try to judge you just see it as an opportunity to
prove them wrong or help them understand why it is difficult.

So yes I think I have got a positive outlook overall. Have you.