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Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by Xelbair on Monday August 26, 2019 @07:22AM (#20798887)
Over here kids got 'benefits'(extra time for tests etc) for having such disabilities - over-diagnosing was very common.

It was a nightmare for people, like me, who genuinely had this syndrome. Every teacher was sure that everyone was faking it and that they were lazy.

I would seriously trade all that extra time for at least readable handwriting. I, like you, spent plenty of my time practicing - in my case by transcribing books.

Heck, i had once to retake an exam at university - it consisted of me basically slowly taking my original one and writing it cleanly.

Re:The Path to Dijkstra’s Handwriting (2013) by richardjdare on Monday August 26, 2019 @10:26AM (#20800105)
I left school in '93. Throughout my school career I was the only person I knew who was diagnosed with anything like that. I only got diagnosed after talking to a physio who was treating my brother. Once that happened I started being treated a lot differently, and got to use a nifty little Amstrad[1] laptop to work on. Pity it happened so late, I might have enjoyed school more.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_NC100