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Blaxcell — Dysgraphia in all its Glory
Published: 2007-05-10 12:53:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 1684; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 66
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Behold, the disorder which has haunted me throughout my shool life. A disorder which causes the sufferer's handwriting to be insanely difficult. Quite ironic that one of my greatest skills is writing.This piece is designed to shew exactly how bad it is as best I can (the best I could do would actually be to record myself writing, but I don't have the resources, and this is more 'arty'). I copied out the Wikipedia article of the disorder itself (found here: [link] ), it took more than two hours to do so.
Dysgraphia is often close to debilitating to me on occasion. Seeing as almost every test in school declares that you must write something-hundred words in so much time, I cannot remember the last time I ever managed to finish a test (whilst everyone around me hands theirs in early). I am a very intelligent person but it makes me feel so stupid (or at least, makes me feel like I look stupid) when other people realise that since I take longer to write I MUST be bad at whatever subject matter the test is on.
My teachers complain that I obviously "haven't studied," no matter how much I have. And recently one of them, after having my predicament explained to them, said that I should stop writing in capitals, because they are slow. Not only is that not true for me (when writing like I did for this, my hand tremmors and it takes all my control to keep it from flying violently across the page) and after seeing the above, can you blame me for writing in capitals?
I wanted to get this done as quickly as possible today because I had a nasty experience with it today. In my literature test I was sitting next to a friend of mine who is a VERY fast writer (she can get a full page written in less than 10 minutes while I'm still working on a second paragraph) so I wasn't feeling great (not too bad though, because she seems to realise the trouble I have). When she finished she bagan talking to the person on the other side; I asked them to please stop because I was trying to concentrate on the test.
Naturally, The Trollop had to stick her nose into it (The Trollop is apparently my "friend" whose "best quality is how nice [she] is). From across the other side of the room, she yelled out "are you still doing it?" then laughed out loud, to my face. When I retaliated to that, she acted as if I had outright offended her unprovoked--just like she always does.
Anyway, the point is that this disorder is only half of the problem. The rest is ignoramuses who believe it is good form to automatically point out other people's minor flaws when they themselves are so flawed that every single person who knows them starts to spew complaints about them the moment they are out of earshot.
As you can see, I am in a very bad mood. And all because of my handwriting.
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I also have Dysgraphia and it made my life a nightmare. It actually hurt to write a lot and for the longest time I didn't know what the fuzz was wrong with me. After we found out I became homeschooled as my school system didn't do anything to make it easier for me. I hate my school for not even realizing this could be the problem when there supposed to be "professionals". They didn't even know it existed.
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I know exactly what this is all about. I have that too, and I also love to write.
Penmenship and spelling have always been the bane of my existance, but as luck would have it I've become a fairly decent typist. That and spell check have really helped me with my disorder. I still have to double check everything I write and often it annoys the crap out of me not being able to spell worth a flip, but things have gotten better since I've come to college and everything is done on computer anyway.
Nobody uses handwritting in the real world anyway.
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I, too, am dysgraphic (I think). I was diagnosed with a learning disorder that, as best as I can describe it, "the physical process of writing interrupts my train of thought. I can not think and write at the same time"... it was only recently that I came up with the actual term for it.
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im dysgraphic but with me I cant write slow enough to form the letters. I literally cant it took them 3 years to tell me Im dysgraphic and for those three years I was sat down 2 hours per day writing in handwriting guides (you know the ones that teach you how to form letters) then they tell me to not do cursive writing, which I cant do as i am so use to doing my version of cursive. but I had this "resolved" by having a person to write for me in all my classes. But im not looking forward to when i get a job when the key thing they normally need is communication.
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I'm also dysgraphic (among other learning disabilities) it's one of the main reasons i have extra time on tests (still even now that im in college.) even though i have these accomidations, i still get crap from teachers occasionaly. in my last year of high school a teacher thought i was being lazy. he said i was just wasting time because i gave good answers. i think the worst part is the aches and tremors i get when writing. it's sort of weird. being this way made me want to be a writier even moe to prove that i could do it.
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Same problem. At age 11 i have started to write only in capital letters because i wanted that everybody could read things that i write. instead before i was alone that i could reaad things that i wrote (i don't make errors and i read very well).
Now i write with my opposite hand because i write more readable with that (strange) .
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I love your handwriting~!! Seriously~!!
And I'm sorry about your dysgraphia problem.
Sometimes I wonder if I have it, because when I write, I get big cramps after about five minutes.
And I know how it feels with teachers AND peers making life harder than need be, because I have reading dysleia.
A lot of my peers will ask "What page are you on?" Really loudly, when we're reading a book, and I'm usually like 10 or so pages behind everyone else.
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I'm not sure if you've noticed, but in all of the classes we've had together, I've never handed anything in early, I usually hand things in AFTER you if I can get away with it. You're hand-writing, while a wee bit slower than mine, is actually readable, so at least you have that much over someone that hasn't been diagnosed with Dysgraphia (admittedly I haven't been tested for any kind of writing impediment, although when the teacher reads your answer out but has to stop and ask "what does that say?" every second word, there's something wrong).
The Trollop is an insensitive whore, and during that particular outburst from beneath her luscious facial hair, I hadn't finished either, I still had yet to finish my first page if memory serves.
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Ah, but legibility is not my problem. It even says that dysgraphics can write perfectly-formed script in there.
The problem is that handwriting is cumbersome in every sense. It's not only slow, but incredibly laboured. It is sometimes insanely difficult to get even a few words onto paper. My hand refuses to move in the right direction, if at all, and after about half a page, my whole arm aches.
Also, after years of handing everything in late, I can't afford to any more. My past teachers spread rumours and make my current teachers too suspicious.
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No one wants to look at themselves anymore. People are much more comfortable with making themselves feel better with tearing others apart then looking at themselves and trying to become the type of person they want to be.
*Hugs* Bigots surround us in the most annoying and rudest fashion. People don't want to take the time to look at something and understand it when the can simply mark it off as a flaw and make the person feel terrible about something they have no control over. I think bigots like it when the person has not control over it more, that way there is not a chance that the person will change and they will be able to continuously mock the person everytime they do something or have something done to them that isn't the exact way they want it.
In short: If I could, I would tell them all to piss off for you and flip them the bird while taking super glue and pasting different articles about your condition all over their faces and bind their hands with them.
Just tell me if I'm not helping and I will stop.
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You are actually helping. Especially since I would do the same thing if I weren't such a gentleman.
She really is a fundamentally flawed person and we would all very much like to have her leave for ever. Unfortunately we are far too sensitive towards her feelings.
I've found nothing but charming young ladies on this site. It's refreshing to know that there are some people of intellect out there sometimes; it's so very difficult to find them close to home. Keep up the good work.
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I happen to find an annoying connection. It seems that the most fundamentally flawed people take the greatest joy in telling people how nice and balanced and fundamentally pure they are. So annoying. I know I am fundamentally flawed. I know I am very flawed, but I do not have the self-righteousness needed to be an enormous arse about it to everyone that has a minor physical flaw.
I am glad you have found some people that aren't vapid idiots, even if they are only over the internet. *hugs*
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