What kind of help can you get in college with dyslexia?

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I have a high school diploma that i got from a easy home school program after giving in to getting help at public school. I was never required to take my SAT's or any college enterance exam. I simply finnished all the required courses and got a HS diploma. I love to learn and feel that I am actually very bright. I just need assitance in learning a diffrent way. I learn SO much more by conversation than reading. When I was in public school I was never offered any kind of assistance with my dyslexia, my parents was told Id outgrow it. It was explained to them not as a learning disability, but as a sort of lazyness. At first my parents pushed me hard to "get past" being dyslexic during my elementry years. The older I got, as they saw that I was definataly not being lazy; as i worked much harder than my other syblings who were making As and Bs all the time, and i was only comming out after trying my very hardest making D's sometimes C's if i was an "easy" class. As i entered High School, it became harder than ever for me to maintain. I would fail in one area or another. After trying public, and private school I never found the help I needed to make it through High School. My mother found a Home school program that was very easy to complete and I did it. I felt stupid and humiliated for having to end my education that way. I have researched dyslexia and found how there are supposidly so many things that school can do to assist children with dyslexia, and I am angry. Why didn't anybody in my schools know this. We did not have a "dyslexia" program. The only thing we had was to go to Special ED when taking test. All that did was give us more time to complete the test. I did not need more time for test taking, i needed help all the way around. Now I want to go back to college because I want a future just like anybody else. The only thing that holds me back is being afraid of failing because I will not be able to get the help I need. If I go to college how do I get help there. What is avalivlble. Researching is hard because there is so much things that are being said that I dont know exactly what im looking for. What I need is a direct, ABC, step 1 2 and 3 answer to my question. If ther is anybody out there who is in the know about this subject, please provide an answer. Thank you :) sorry to vent.