Dysgraphia is a REAL condition

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I have dysgraphia but it wasn't a known term when I was in public school. I forgot my libary book once and to "help me remember" when it had to be brought back I was to write, "My libary day is Monday" a hundred times. That's right one hundred times. My brother went out with the libarian's daughter for a while and even she admitted to her own mother was quite a b***h.

My brother was talking to her on the phone and when I found out it was Jenny, Mrs. O's daughter I suggested my mum speak to her mum and tell her she might as well had me bring her the entire ocean in a shot glass (not my exact words) and help get me out of it. I had already written fifty sentences and my mum thought that was enough and she must have went full Mama Bear on Mrs. O because my mum said that she had said that I could stop at fifty and I never had to write sentences when I forgot my book again and Mrs. O was a LOT more nicer to me. We had a substutite libarian once and I forgot my book but when she tried to make me write a hundred sentences I just handed the paper back to her when she handed it back I just scribbled all over it and when I gave it back I think she got the message it wasn't very wise to push me and just took it back all scribly.

I remember having to do stupid handwriting drills in first grade and constantaly having to rewrite them during recess becuase they were too "sloppy" to be read. I copied it from the blackboard and the teacher wrote it so she should know what it said. I remember having to write them over again at least three times. Aside from that though, that woman was a canidate for sainthood. I was always accused of being lazy because I could draw so well and drawing never hurt. I think writing and drawing require diffrent muscles of the hands and arms. I was always told my handwriting was too sloppy but I could be "neat" about it if given the time which was way to long for my attention span or most teacher's patience. It could take me over an hour to write a single paragraph "neatly".

My hands would cramp and my arms would hurt up to my elbows. I could never write cursive very well until my mum started homeschooling me but I suspect it had a lot to do with the special ed teacher being such a b***h about it. The SPED teacher who retired came in when her replacement needed time off and she was never bitchy about cursive. She was a potential saint as well. Some homeschooling program I was in required a sample of handwriting and I have them hell about it. I should write to the homeschool progam and tell them how bad it was and they shouldn't ask that kind of requirement because that's a reason some kids are homeschooled in the first place. If my mum didn't proof read everything first, I would have wrote them a letter than would have made the most drunken sailors cringe. A summer camp I wanted to attend also had that stupid requirement. I don't know why becuase it was for potential future vets and even laymen know you can't read a doctor's handwriting for nothing. So don't go telling me that I am making dysgraphia up to get out of writing, you yahoos or I will feed you to my bearded dragon.

I can't believe the nerve of a librarian who would make a child write 100 times about a library book!! !

That had to be traumatic, esp. for someone with dysgraphia. Thank goodness your mother came to your rescue.

What do you draw? How is that easier for you than writing?

I believe that it's a real condition. I've gone to school with many people who have it, and I believe that I have a mild to moderate case of it, too.

Yes.

I can't say for certain if I have dysgraphia or not. My hand writing IS TERRIBLE. I have to focus on it to get it to come out nice, but it hurts more to write that way. The longer I write, the worse it will get because I start writing faster just to get the job done because my arm hurts too much.

Writing assignments were the worst. I always hated having to do them. Having to write a sentence even feels like a challenge. I avoid writing as muuuuuuuch as possible.

I am constantly harassed at school for my hand writing. I too have it.

I think I have PTSD from most of my teachers. There's a special place in Hell with their names all over it. And people wonder why I hate people so much.

http://phoenix-kat.deviantart.com/gallery/ I draw animal related themes. I made a promise YEARS ago that I would never draw humans. If someone even suggests it, I have an epic meltdown. I don't know why drawing is easier than writing but painting is easier than drawing.

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My hand writing was never good as anyone else in my grade. But because I haven't written in so many years, my hand gets sore when I have to write so I prefer typing. I can still write checks and make notes and make a shopping list and fill out applications, it's not a lot of writing.

I don't think I have dysgraphia.

I feel for you. I went throught the same garbage in 1968-69. The school I was in in second grade learned cursive in third grade. The school I moved to learned in in second. Guess which year I moved?

You guessed it! Third grade I found myself suddenly a year behind in cursive writing, and we were required to write everything in cursive. I had to spend an entire year staying after school, and/or with extra homework every single night. and for what? A freaking writing style that doesn't get anyone anywhere as far as jobs or business. Know of any companies that accept hand written resumes? How about publishers that accept hand written manuscripts?

The stupidest thing is that after all that, I hated cursive so much, I never, ever used it again, except to sign my name.

Okay, I was wrong. That isn't the stupidest thing.

A few years back, my own kids started showing up with cursive writing assignments. Hah! I fought the school on that one for them, and eventually, I won. They don't use it at all now.

When I was in school, cursive writing wasn't required but in 5th grade, it was required in spelling tests and I think in third grade. But we still learned cursive when I was in second grade. I hear it's supposed to make you faster at writing but for me it's the opposite. Or maybe some of our school assignments did require us to write in cursive, I don't remember.

I can barely even sign my own name. My handwriting (cursive or otherwise) looks like a 4 year-olds I can't stand signing my name in front of other people, it's so embarassing, they must think i'm ret*d or something.

I am an odd combination of hypergraphic and dysgraphic..depending on what mode I am in at the time...

I have several different styles of handwriting that are contingent upon the sort of writing I am doing..I can do nice hand-lettering...but if I am writing a note to someone about something work-related...for example....I can often only muster an illegible scrawl..

I am pretty sure i have that condition. i want to go back in a time machine and bitchslap all people who made me feel bad about my handwriting and kept me in after school, making me write things out again.

My handwriting is pretty bad unless i go super slow, but i don't know if mine's bad enough to qualify as a disorder. Today at work i noticed that a guy i work with has writing very similar to mine, so we all started writing our names on a piece of receipt paper to compare ours to a girl who had good handwriting. It's funny, i can actually draw pretty well if i take my time, but my writing isn't good(although, i find that i can read it easier than other peoples' writing). For those of you who have been diagnosed with dysgraphia, i think it would be interesting if you would post a picture of your handwriting so that the rest of us can compare and see if ours is bad enough to qualify as dysgraphia.

There are a few threads like that floating around...as for people who are actually diagnosed with it, I am curious as to how that diagnosis might have come about..I guess that I should more accurately say that I "identify" with dysgraphia..as there are times when I cannot control my hand to get it to form the letters properly..or I don't write the letters in the proper sequence...my writing is a jumble of scratchouts and corrections...unless I am on a roll and/or writing as a stim...and/or for pleasure...then I can write and write and write in small letters and fill up pages and pages...at least I used to be able to...

There are a few threads like that floating around...as for people who are actually diagnosed with it, I am curious as to how that diagnosis might have come about..I guess that I should more accurately say that I "identify" with dysgraphia..as there are times when I cannot control my hand to get it to form the letters properly..or I don't write the letters in the proper sequence...my writing is a jumble of scratchouts and corrections...unless I am on a roll and/or writing as a stim...and/or for pleasure...then I can write and write and write in small letters and fill up pages and pages...at least I used to be able to...