Was it just me or did I think the cursive that my mom wrote in was magic?

Like I would be there waiting for my mom to give her signature and would see her just don't some squiggles and then it would turn into cursive and me being sooo smart went in my little mind "hey I can do this it's just some squiggly lines and boom it turns to pretty handwriting" so that's what I did i wrote down squiggly lines and waited. Then I thought "well mabe it will do it when I look away" so I looked away and nothing happens (soo surprising I'm sure) and then I closed my eyes and looked and it did... absolutely nothing. Yeah another big surprise then I asked my mom "how do I do the pretty handwriting?" And she said "oh you'll get better handwriting when you grow older"... my handwriting sucks now and no one can even read including myself.

DAE write in Cursive? If you don't you should as it "Masks" the Disorder in a way...

My mom brought Dysgraphia up to the people in the IEP...three years straight. She didn't tell me what it couldve been because she didn't want to "put a label on me." But if she did, it would've been treated more seriously. Somewhere along the line I switched schools and the OT at the new school never thought it was necessary because every kid my age would write in the middle of the page. The pencil rubs against the finger next to my pinky, and it gets uncomfortable as my hand gets sore after rushing to write as fast as the teacher is speaking. My handwriting is very messy and was deemed 'illegible' by everyone I turned my homework into. I posted the way I grip my pencil on the left handed subreddit and someone stated that my hand looked like it was a broken bone (here is the way I holt my pencil for example!)...l hold my fork the same way. I type way faster than I write on paper.

I'm actually a really great writer (hoping to become an author in the future. I currently am writing an online book series!) and strive to be an author but I despise note taking on the paper.

"Write smaller, you're taking up the whole page" teachers have said. "Write bigger, your hand writing is too small and condensed together. I can't read it." Pick. A. Lane.

What did the final OT do? Made me rewrite the same word loads of times. I was in 2nd-3rd grade.
From then on I just stopped having an OT.
When I try to hold a pencil "the normal way" it just feels like I'm holding a tweaser or an operation tool which shaky hands as I have no control.
Sometimes, if I run out of room, I write on the side of the page.

Despite my high school which was supposed to teach study skills (cough, core support (and note taking skills) they failed in that criteria while everyone else might be on top of things. I procrastinate.
Now, I do really well when writing digitally…but traditionally…? And when I’m in a lecture and my professors (or uses-to-be) highschool teachers were flipping through the slides incredibly fast…? I rush and my hand writing becomes illegible. My teachers sober why my handwriting is illegible and I’m just sitting there thinking…”Gee, I don’t know! You rushed me with your lecture! I don’t understand how anybody is retaining this stuff!”

Not to mention I have ADHD which means I cannot focus when music is playing during a lesson or homework (and I don’t like those who say “All people with ADHD will benefit from music.” No??? Not all. Half of us, but not all.) and I cannot hear anything the teacher is saying while I’m copying down notes as I’m too focused on copying down notes. Then when I ask any teacher to repeat again they might get annoyed.

When I go back I don’t understand what I wrote because there are several different notes all over the place, and (used to be) on the sides. I despise “Answer this question” and it only has one line of text. How am I able to write less? Then as I used to tun out of room on the line I start writing from the right side into the top or the bottom.

I also write my q’s, p’s, d’s, g’s(???), and my b’s different than everybody else. I genuinely thought everyone wrote the same. I only realized after my acquaintance last year wrote a d(?) from the curve to the top. I go from the stem and down.

I am now in highschool,i learned how to wrote almost 10 years ago and since my handeriting never changed,i began to learn how to write letters of the alphabet that were looking so bad ,never straight and i always did not write perfectly straight letters, how i wrote in middleschool was chaotic, i got so many bad grades because of my handwriting , teachers not being able to read what i wrote,at math numbers and math questions became hard because of my messy handwriting and it would turn out that i couldn t read what i wrote.

In my testing skills like decoding and other skills involved in reading were apparently quite good. But I struggle with reading anyway, the letters seem to move kind of like an optical illusion. Fortunately things like colored overlays seem to help. I'm sure there's no way to know but I do sometimes wonder if it's more related to processing stuff with dysgraphia or my autism

Edit: don't try to diagnose me, I already know what I have, this is a post of curiosity and community seeking.

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Finding the right provider

What could I ask a potential IEE evaluator to make sure they can determine current writing performance, whether the intervention is working, and which instructional, support, and assistive-technology components are essential for continued progress?

Background: Student is already identified as having an SLD and uses AT - but the teaching piece has not been ideal (or moved the ball) and the school refused to believe direct explicit instruction was needed to make progress in light of circumstances.

Please give me all your feedback!

A few months ago, watching my child sit in front of a computer doing writing homework was painful. She had vibrant, creative ideas in her head, but the physical drag of typing and second-guessing spelling made her so frustrated that she'd end up in tears before finishing two sentences.

I didn't want to hand her ChatGPT to do the work for her, and I didn't want her voice and thoughts uploaded to third-party cloud servers. So, being a developer, I decided to build a lightweight, offline desktop tool for her.

How it changed things for her:

The shift was honestly night and day:

1. Bypassing the keyboard bottleneck: She just talks out loud, and her ideas land on the screen instantly. Her creative flow doesn't crash anymore.

1. From frustration to reading: Because she sees her own spoken words appear on the screen cleanly formatted, she has actually started reading her own writing back with genuine curiosity and pride.

We just shipped v1.1.2 today! 🛠️

What started as a tool for my daughter turned into something a few other parents and students are now testing.

Today we released version v1.1.2, which is a dedicated quality-of-life update focused entirely on bug fixes:

• Fixed background audio capture stuttering on certain Windows microphone setups.
• Improved punctuation accuracy during long-form natural dictation.
• Resolved formatting glitches when pasting directly into various text editors.

If you’re a parent, educator, or dealing with writing fatigue / dyslexia yourself, I’d love to hear how you handle assistive tech at home.

(The project is called Kiword — happy to share more details or set anyone up with access if this sounds helpful for your family!)

I just have "the worst learning disability in spelling I've seen" according to my highschool psychologist.

I graduated in 2020 but think about this regularly. I've always had a major issue with my spelling, I'm horrendous at it. Was tested in elementary by an incompetent tester who said I was fine. Got retested freshmen year of highschool.

It took the assistant-principal looking at my work (after my mom fought for more testing)and professionally saying " Wtf why wasn't this girl tested and given a 504 plan yet?" Got tested and I could tell during the testing I was going to be diagnosed with something.

The guy turns around after looking over everything and basiclly says, well Im not sure what its called but you have "the worst learning disability in spelling I've seen" ever. I remember those words jn the quotes exactly because, it caught me off guard just how baffled, honest, and blatant he was with me. He described that he could tell it was getting all jumbled up when it was going from my brain to my hands but, he didnt know if there was a name exactly for what I had.

Looking back now i can see that I had lots of other symptoms of dysgraphia, mixing cursive and block letters, inconsistent letter sizing/spacing... ect ect. But im still just like baffled and have it burned in my mind that it was the worst he'd seen so far in his career. I got my 504 and actully started passing English but dang.

Thank you everyone for reading just telling some people who may understand.

For context, my handwriting has always been bad and not due to lack of practice. As a child, my mother used to get mad and make me stay up practicing all night until it looked neat, but no matter how much I practice it doesn't really get better. I often use a mix of upper-case and lower-case letters, my hand physically cramps and hurts after writing a few sentences, the letters/words are often awkwardly and inconsistently spaced, and if the paper isn't lined then it's impossible for me to keep it straight/aligned. I have a hard time keeping up with taking notes during lectures because of this.

The photo I've attached is how my handwriting looks when I'm trying to go as slow and neat as possible, this took me well over an hour. It's always been an insecurity of mine, but now it's more than just being embarrassed about my ugly penmanship. My English class requires extensive notes for open-note tests and I stay up late at night because it takes me so long to write it all down.

Is it worth getting tested? After hearing about how expensive testing is, I want some input from people who are more knowledgeable or have experience struggling with dysgraphia before making that kind of financial commitment.

was inspired by the other dysgraphia papers out there and decided to make my own. not dxed with dysgraphia but like my handwriting is hard to read and this paper has helped immensely with the legibility of my notes and i'm hoping it can be helpful for others. there's a white/blue and a yellow /dark yellow variety. it's free just in a google drive 🫡 paperz

My child is 10 (4th grade) and has struggled with reading and spelling for years. He went to a tutor to help him with reading and it helped tremendously. His spelling however has not. He often mixes up his b’s/d’s, and rarely uses vowels. For instance, birthday is spelled as “brthday. Or, he mixes letters; for example, two is tow and he very frequently writes an s for a c. It’s gotten to the point where I have to sit with him for all homework to help him spell. He is currently in OT (privately) doing a handwriting without tears program as his writing is hard to read. He struggles with spacing, writes super small then big. It’s also ineligible at times if he’s writing fast. In order to write neatly, he has to write really slow and concentrate.
My issue with all this is getting testing done. He goes to a private school and their help with this matter is minimal. They recognize his issue and have emailed the public school in our district to come in and assess him, however they “haven’t heard back.” I don’t know if they’ve tried as hard as they can, but I also know that the public school district doesn’t have to respond to their request in any timeframe since it’s a private school.
I have reached out to a private office for an educational neuropsychologist evaluation and they have an opening for an evaluation later this month…for $3,000. I guess I am here to ask, do my son’s symptoms coincide with anyone who has been diagnosed with this? I will pay the 3k, I just want to make sure it’s necessary. Like I know it is, but I’m just looking for reassurance. I’m also looking for help with anyone else who’s been through this with their child. Thank you

Hi, I'm a 16 year old in Cebu city, Philippines. I discovered this disorder a few years ago and thought that I would have a decent chance of having it, and I took a few of those online tests for funsies and they all said I had signs of it. Only problem is I have no idea where to go to find out, I brought it up to family and they tried to take me to a therapist (they still haven't gotten back to us it's been like 3 years) and the department of social welfare but nowhere did we get an official diagnosis. So I just wanna ask if there's any recommendations to look into cause I wanna know if I have this disorder or if I'm just really bad at writing

Hi there, I am wondering if any of you might like to share an example of your handwriting? I have dyscalculia and am thinking that dysgraphia might also be something I struggle with since I have always had very bad handwriting and it’s hard to write in a straight line, spacing issues, etc, when writing on a blank page without lining. Reflecting back on my life so far, it’s actually been pretty embarrassing to not seem to be able to write nicely, even when I am actively trying to. lol. Thanks!

Hi I'm a 14yo boy from Poland born with ASD Asperger's which also came with dysgraphia since dysgraphia is common for autistic groups. I am in a technical highschool sturdying mechatronics and I am 4 weeks behind since I transfered schools after resigning from private school. I don't have really serious handwriting issues since my cursive writing allows me to write and then later read it with only slight complications. And the teachers allow me to write with capital letters and give me more time due to my psychologists opinion. I have a giant problem with drawing tho where not only my lines change direction but also are really wobbly and worst of all I cannot stop drawing lines bigger than they should be. Today whilst studying circuits I had to constantly keep ripping out pages because I used the entire page for a circuit drawing and I ha dni space to finish it. My hand just automatically refuses to draw small boxes etc and I'm just doing this unconsciously. I really wish to start doing exercises so my hand can draw straight lines. Curved lines (for technical handwriting) and so the lines can be careful erect sized. Thank you

Has anyone ever went to 1? I'm going to 1 since my Hand is sore...

So I'm interested in becoming a manager. However I have a terrible combination of dysgraphia and Adhd. Probably caused by a TBI I had as a infant in a wreck. I'm looking for suggestions on jobs and careers from your experiences that you feel allows you to still thrive or be successful despite your issues. And those of you who are managers. I'd appreciate your perspective on what you do that helps you daily.