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I’m an artist with dysgraphia as well. And I’ve always struggled with things. My style is inconsistent, the things in my head just do not come out in paper no matter what I do, and just overall art can be extremely difficult for me. It’s very hard for me to figure out where the line between my disability and my lack of skill are and it’s incredibly frustrating.

and I’ve always had this worry that I’m just horrible at art even though I know that’s not true and that it shouldn’t even matter!

especially when I’m drawing stuff with writing or some words because it takes so long for me to write legibly and spell everything correctly.

When I say I’m a disabled artist, I don’t mean “oh look I’m an autistic artist who draws their special internets!” I mean “I have dysgraphia and it effects my art and style in a impactful way. I work very hard to work with my dysgraphia but it’s still difficult”

Temporarily set aside the ones place.  20+40=60; Pull in the 8 so I have 68.  add 7 to 68 by counting on my fingers (69, 70, 71 ...)

I also will sometimes look at that and go: 48. to 58 to 68 and then precede as above. (If adding more then two or three tens places, I will keep track on my fingers as well)

I will then double check myself two or three times.

Potentially relevant info: I have dysgraphia, a learning disability similar to dyslexia.

As someone with dysgraphia, this hits incredibly close to home for me. I've had multiple teachers ask me what stuff says and along with my sub-par memory most times I don't even know.

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

All I want, all I ask, is for dysgraphia to be as commonly represented as dyslexia is 💔💔

In the spirit of my previous post dysgraphic davey! Davey who is incredibly book smart but gets in trouble at school because he can’t handwrite! Davey who cries daily because he just CANT get what’s in his head on paper! Davey who’s so exhausted from writing all the time that he’s prone to breaking down! Davey who wants to SCREAM because nobody will believe him that he *knows* this stuff, he’s capable he’s smart, he has so much he wants to share but nobody believes him. Also Davey who tries a typewriter for the first time and breaks down because he can finally express himself, who finally has proof that he’s not dumb or wrong or broken and that he can share what he’s thinking

Hello gay people in my phone, since you liked yesterday’s dysgraphic Davey post here’s another more detailed one!

Davey’s like really struggling in school because he’s reading at a college level, but his writing never really progressed past grade school. He’s venting about this to his friends (including Katherine) and she offers the use of her typewriter - it can’t hurt to try? He’s initially very resistant because what if I can’t do it then? What does that mean? Does that mean that everyone was right and I really am stupid? But he tries, and it’s a learning curve but he can get what’s in his head on paper for the first time in his life. So he and Katherine spend like every day where they’re not both busy together working on a story. It’s not perfect, a little rough around the edges, but it’s his and it’s proof that there is something worth sharing in his head after all. He decides to show it to his teachers, and they don’t believe that he wrote it. Say he’s not capable of producing something like that, that he must have stolen it off of someone else, that he’s lying. Totally crushing his hopes of being seen as competent and worthy.