One thing I always loved as a kid was drawing, I drawing comics, and showed them to my classmates. The massive issue I had was dysgraphia, which was only found out when I was 14 ; I stopped drawing long before, since holding a pen for more than 30 secs causes me immense pain. I wished to be able to persue a career as an artist, but found other ventures (which I'm still happy with, don't worry).

But nowadays as I need art for a creative projet (a game) I need to draw, a draw a lot. I wonder if there is any techniques to help cope with the pain ?

My brother has dysgraphia (grade 8), and is finding it extremely difficult to cope at school. The pressure to write has caused him to develop a bunch of other behavioural issues as well. It’s really concerning, and me and my parents have no idea how to help him.

Can someone here please inform me of what special arrangements or additional help they were provided with at school, or anything else that helped them cope.

So I was officially diagnosed with dysgraphia. My handwriting was basically unreadable when I was younger but now, it is legible. Is this strange? Like, my hand does hurt sometimes, I switch between cursive and print and I also unintentionally miss words and make stupid grammar mistakes. I also struggle to put my thoughts into words properly and when I do end up succeeding, my wording seems very unnatural. So I take a lot of time to complete writing assignments. Yet, my handwriting is alright, just a tad bit messy.

Was I misdiagnosed? I'm not very educated on this matter, so I'm asking here.

I suck at sustained practice but my dysgraphia has forced my to keep practicing my typing for like over a decade at this point and I can type so fucking fast and I am god!

My kid was diagnosed a few months ago. One of the big struggles is memorizing things such as spelling words, vocabulary, grammar rules, math facts. These are huge struggles.

Have any of y'all found better ways to remember these things? We are struggling! The testing paperwork said that dysgraphia would affect those areas.

Hi. I live with someone who I found out has dysgraphia. I don't know anything about it and I don't have any examples to go off of when it comes to how difficult it is to communicate through text.

Yesterday I pushed the family dog away with my leg, and this person (we'll call them Mori) accused me of kicking the dog. I got pretty angry about it, because I clearly did not kick the dog, and the owner had told us we should push her away when she jumps on us to make ourselves less available to her, as she doesn't know how to keep herself from jumping on others yet.

I was angry when i left the room, and texted them about it not long after. I wasn't very nice in the text, and said, "idk what that looked like to you but can u not accuse me of abusing animals as a first assumption??? i was trying to leave and that was fucking uncalled for." It's worth noting that I didn't know Mori has dysgraphia.

I texted them because I struggle to have verbal conversations as a result of trauma. So to keep myself from exploding, I leave the situation and send a text to express how I felt.

Mori responded by saying, "Chill you are always like this, no one was and no one will. No one in this house is in the mood for how you react to everything, but when someone has a problem with you you just act like your not part of this family randomly so you can avoid what you want. I'm not afraid of you and your not gonna treat me like that or anyone in this house like that without thinking. I'm blocking you till you calm down and think before you say things"

A lot of us looked at this text, and when it's taken literally, it looks like gaslighting. No one else has any issue with me and others agreed that this text looks mean and nasty.

So Mori's mom talked to them about it, and she talked to me about it. And basically what they're saying is that most of that text is garbled nonsense, and what they had meant to say is that they feel like me leaving the situation and texting them about whatever makes me angry is just avoiding the problem. I honestly think that sounds like a load of shit, but I also have no examples to look at for dysgraphia in relation to communication.

So I'm here to ask, does this sound like an example of difficulties related to dysgraphia, or is it possible that Mori meant exactly what they said?

I found this subreddit and was hoping it would be other people with dysgraphia giving everyone tips. What I found was disappointing. So I want to clear somethings up as someone who is in their late 20s and was diagnosed with dysgraphia when I was 7.

Most posts on here that I have seen have been from people asking if they have dysgraphia because they have poor handwriting. I can’t stress this enough dysgraphia isn’t simply poor handwriting, dysgraphia is a neurological processing disorder where people who have it have trouble getting their thoughts on to a page. A common symptom of this is poor handwriting but I can tell you most of my one on one time in school wasn’t how to fix my handwriting but practices I can use to help me get my thoughts out of my head and on to paper. In addition people with dysgraphia tend to have a lot of run on sentences and improper use of punctuation. Many skilled here were dictation, having a note taker in class, or by the time I was in middle school I used a lap top to take notes.

Going back to the handwriting, while people with dysgraphia have poor handwriting and this also is the most visible symptom of dysgraphia. It’s not just poor handwriting, it’s specific things that make the handwriting poor. For instance people with dysgraphia tend to have random capitalized letter, poor spacing, and sometimes a mix of cursive and block writing. So while it’s poor handwriting it’s poor handwriting that has a specific look to it. The poor handwriting is caused by poor motor function which itself is caused by the processing issues. Many people with dysgraphia have issues hold pens and pencils and their fingers get tired easily.

From what I’ve seen on this subreddit there are a good chunk of people who just have poor handwriting not dysgraphia.

Lastly if you think your child has dysgraphia for gods sake get off Reddit and talk to your school and the teachers and even your doctor.

I found this subreddit and was hoping it would be other people with dysgraphia giving everyone tips. What I found was disappointing. So I want to clear somethings up as someone who is in their late 20s and was diagnosed with dysgraphia when I was 7.

Most posts on here that I have seen have been from people asking if they have dysgraphia because they have poor handwriting. I can’t stress this enough dysgraphia isn’t simply poor handwriting, dysgraphia is a neurological processing disorder where people who have it have trouble getting their thoughts on to a page. A common symptom of this is poor handwriting but I can tell you most of my one on one time in school wasn’t how to fix my handwriting but practices I can use to help me get my thoughts out of my head and on to paper. In addition people with dysgraphia tend to have a lot of run on sentences and improper use of punctuation. Many skilled here were dictation, having a note taker in class, or by the time I was in middle school I used a lap top to take notes.

Going back to the handwriting, while people with dysgraphia have poor handwriting and this also is the most visible symptom of dysgraphia. It’s not just poor handwriting, it’s specific things that make the handwriting poor. For instance people with dysgraphia tend to have random capitalized letter, poor spacing, and sometimes a mix of cursive and block writing. So while it’s poor handwriting it’s poor handwriting that has a specific look to it. The poor handwriting is caused by poor motor function which itself is caused by the processing issues. Many people with dysgraphia have issues hold pens and pencils and their fingers get tired easily.

From what I’ve seen on this subreddit there are a good chunk of people who just have poor handwriting not dysgraphia.

Has anyone found a good pen that works for them?

I recently told a friend about my writing stutter and after some Google searches she's convinced it's dysgraphia but I'm not sure. I'm an adult but have had this issue since I was a little girl, it just was never bad enough to get checked out. While my handwriting is good, there are certain letters that I cannot write. It's any letter with a curve such as m, w, n, etc. When I go to handwrite them my hand gets stuck and will just do the same motion for 15 seconds before it can do the curve. So, for example, when I go to write a w, I draw that first line 20-30 times before my hand is able to make the motion for the first little curve. I can't explain why this happens; my mind knows exactly what my hand is trying to do, it knows what a "w" looks like, but my hand just can't do it. I get it eventually but it takes so long and sometimes I even have to close my eyes and intensely focus. I also struggle with writing in general. I can write good essays but they take very, very, very long. I can speak so eloquently but when I go to put the same thing in an essay I sound so stupid. Does any of this sound like dysgraphia to those that know they have it, or am I overthinking it?

I was not diagnosed with dysgraphia but I was diagnosed with "learning disorder not otherwise specified" and I strongly believe I have dysgraphia after learning about it.

I went to handwriting summer school for 2 summers! Obviously it didn't help but it's nice to finally have an answer to not only my poor penmanship but also why I write things the... way I do. What a strange disorder, I'm glad others understand.

I'm shocked that i've never heard of dysgraphia before, especially having been formally diagnosed as dyslexic 7 years ago. While faster than average at reading, my writing is exceptionally slow and frustrating; giving up completing messages. Even now, i'm challenged to write this.

Hi everyone. I'm 35 years old and was diagnosed twice, once in the 8th grade and again last year. My main question to all of you is aside from the obvious writing difficulties has anyone else struggled with just taking the information in your mind and formatting it in to a structure that is easy for people to read.

An example would be a resume. I've written quite a few in my day but I've always gotten someone to edit it after. Let's just say that the people editing my resumes have been highly confused with how I describe myself. Apparently I write formal documents in the same way that most people casually have conversations.

More recently as well I was voted on to a board of directors. Nothing super formal, it's a dance troupe that functions as a non profit. The role I was voted in to was secretary, with this responsibility comes taking minutes at our monthly board meetings. We have had two meetings so far and I can't keep up. Like five to ten minutes in to a two hour meeting and I'm lost. I just go blank to the point where I can't even engage with the conversation. My thought is that I have an issue with information processing.

Verbally I'm fine, if I don't need to transfer the information in to written (or typed) form then there's no problem. But as soon as I need to keep any record of the information it's like I suddenly become the spinning wheel of death and I'm frozen.

Any perspective would be great, thanks.

Something that still amuses me years later and I can't believe I got away with it. It wouldn't work in this day and age, but back in early 2000s I was dealing with school gold.

My backstory: I'm 35F and I was officially diagnosed when I was 11-ish because that was the requirement to be able to write general exams in caps. Awful handwriting is the only issue I have and thanks to computer usage I don't struggle anymore. Even my capitals are hard to read for majority of people. For ex my Ks looks like Us, Ds like Os, I, J and L is basically the same sign, I also write Y in the wrong way (the longer line is on the other side then it supposed to) and I often write the wrong letter altogether. My lowercases are basically a code that is hard to read even for myself.

I decided to turn cons into pros and I used it to my advantage in a few ways:

1. I have an amazing memory. Not being able to rely on notes conditioned my brain to retain as much information as possible on the spot. I still write down things to help me remember but not to read it back.
2. I never had to hide my diary from my brother. He was unable to read anything (I can read maybe 50% of it so that was a two way sword)
3. I never had to share notes, write anything down during group projects, meetings etc.
4. I come from a country with a huge amount of diacritical signs, diagrams and others. Grammar is huge, and I was good at grammar but there were times when I wasn't sure. I found ways to write those in a way where you couldn't tell if it is correct or not. Because I was generally good I was getting away with 90% of it.
5. We had a system that you could take a test twice unless there were special circumstances. When I forgot or didn't prepare properly for the first one I was able to write pure gibberish just to get it back as "not-readable" but since "it wasn't my fault" I retained my right to two tries.
6. I did the same thing with homework and some assignments. I was able to write a 4 pager zigzag extravaganza on a bus, on my way to school. That usually got me 1-2 weeks extra to do the job, or, in case of homework, not having to do it at all.

PS They weren't able to force me to write in capitals in general. It takes longer and meant that I would have had less time than others. Computers and printers were not in every household (or school) back then so they also couldn't make it a requirement as it would have create disadvantage for some. The older I got, the harder it was to avoid but that opened up the whole printer/pendrive/disk issue opportunities.

So that's how I took my dysgraphia to the next level, made it my holy grail of education and made all my peers jealous.

I am pretty confident I have dysgraphia but how do I get diagnosed. I am still in school and don't have money for phycologists.

I'm headed to grad school for writing in a couple of months, and I know some of my exams will include hand-written essays... Which terrifies me a little!

I'm a confident writer, but my handwriting is absolutely terrible and always has been. People have always made fun of me for it, and in K-12 schooling I got bad grades on some assignments for it. I had teachers pull me aside in middle school and question me on why I wrote some letters capitalized (I knew it was grammatically incorrect, but it's hard for me to make certain letters like P look lowercase). Can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure my AP and ACT and essay scores suffered from my handwriting being illegible, too.

I hold my pencil/pen with a very tense, tight grip without intending to. Writing just a sticky note's worth of text causes me pain. I've always assumed this was some strange form of arthritis that manifested in childhood, but apparently it can also be a characteristic of dysgraphia.

Anyways, here's what my handwriting looks like (notes I took in college):

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And here's the absolute best I can make it look, if I take a lot of time and focus:

https://preview.redd.it/v62snqdww7nc1.png?width=3565&format=png&auto=webp&s=41e8afd860518299b7359920de312219f82e0076

I don't think my handwriting looks that bad, but others have definitely disagreed. If there's a good chance I have dysgraphia, I'd really like to seek a diagnosis in order to hopefully seek some sort of accomodation on my exams. I don't know what that'd look like but I would've killed to have a typewriter or something during the ACT.

In your opinion, would it make sense for me to seek a dysgraphia diagnosis?

I know there's not a cure. It doesn't make sense for a cure for such a condition to exist. But can anything be done about moderate levels of motor dysgraphia? I have a hard time writing for more than 10-20 minutes, after which my hand muscles really start suffering quickly afterwards, in addition to the tension already present. I can't hold a writing utensil correctly, and the legibility of my writing can use some improving, though it's not severe.

For context, I am 32 years of age. Thanks in advance.

My handwriting was never good, I made too many spelling mistakes, and my journal looks like it was made by an elementary. Then I found out about dysgraphia. Idk what to feel about this. It doesn't really affect me much, other than when my professors grade my essays lower due to "unclean writing".

When I was a kid, they told me my penmanship would improve if I practiced and wrote more. Years later, early 20s, I still get comments on how bad my writing is. Funny, I love to write, stories and such, I even have journals where 2 notebooks were already filled out. Conclusion? practice did not help, this is just me.

Purpose of this post? I guess I kinda just wanna let it out of my system.

I've been blocked from graduating from college everywhere I go, so I haven't been able to stop using handwriting for a lot of things yet. Hoping to find legal representation to get my degree soon, but who knows... My dysgraphia makes it painful to write and draw, so I just keep going until I can't hold a pencil anymore and take whatever grade I can get since my university doesn't enforce disability accommodations. I've noticed after a lengthy exam these days I'll get dizzy and it doesn't go away for hours. Ran into a door frame after an exam the other day. It wasn't this bad when I was in middle school/high school. Has anyone else experienced something similar? Should I just flat out refuse to pick up a pencil from now on? I've also got sensory issues that make my senses of touch/pressure/pain/temperature all more dull and they feel like they're slipping away. I think it might be related. I was diagnosed so long ago that I don't even know what kind of doctor I should go to.

I don't like self diagnosing myself, but i have struggled with this my whole life and I feel like l finally have an answer. This is why i had to drop out of school. I've already been to to multiple psychologists for this all the way back to when i was 12 and the best aswer I got was 'it could be low muscle tone'. I physically struggle to write more than a few words at a time without my hand locking up from cramps and feeling like im gonna throw up, and whenever I've told people I physically can't write they look at me like im an idiot. Whenever I have managed to write even a page it would take me an hour, and be 50% scribbling out misspelt words, which teachers used to give me so much shit for because between the scribbled words, the random capitalisation, words with no space between, and random cursive starting halfway between words, my 1 paragraph i could churn out in an hour just seemed like a joke, and I always agreed. It was so embarrassing, and completely ruined my school life, and i left as soon as i could because i was sick of embarrassing myself because i know im not dumb but i never submitted ANY work because i just could not bear the physical and mental pain of writing. I still struggle so hard with it but at least i feel validated now.

My 10 y/o son is in grade 4 and is about to start learning long division. He is not currently able to organize numbers on a page well enough to be able to do the equations properly, and still reverses numbers.

Are there any “drag and drop” type programs available for laptop or tablet that would work for math/long division?

He loves math. It’s his best subject and he’s very confident about his abilities there, so I want to try to make it as good an experience as possible.

Thanks :)

Took my son in for a full neuropsychological eval for something different (although I knew he struggled with writing) and the doctor is very concerned about my sons writing abilities. He said he has an iq of 127 but his writing is very very low for a child his age. He is 7.

With more and more typing being allowed in schools how concerned do we need to be? Is it about more than just bad handwriting.