Re: Friends, Northerners, Scotsmen, Scousers, help me out here!

May 21, 2006 82 Replies

Did I ever mention that I'm both dyslexic and dysgraphic? Someone once suggested dyspraxic, too, but I think really I can be summed up as dysfunctional.

FWIW dyslexia doesn't really exist; it's just a way of categorising people on a scale of abilities. In the past, I'd have just been crap at writing. It's like all these 'autistic' kids that seem to be showing up everywhere. ;)

Richard (I can type just fine, and at insane speed, but I can't fill out a supermarket advert card legibly or accurately. I was eventually allowed a typewriter for exams, but not until I'd failed most things and been booted out of school!).

If you can type just fine it's probably more dysgraphia than dyspraxia and dyslexia. I don't get why some things that should be simple to most people seem so hard to me but other things that stump others I have no problems with (wiring seems to cause a lot of trouble for a lot of my class mates for example)

AstraVanMan writed:

Astra, that's 'cos you've got a Van, Man :-)

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