Dysgraphia vs. dyslexia

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When I write I am constantly mixing up letters and misspelling words. I know HOW to spell but I keep making the same weird mistakes. My handwriting makes me look totally uneducated and ignorant.

Like when I write "physical" it usually comes out "phyisal" or "phyiacl." Obviously I know how to spell the word. But my hand will not cooperate.

Plus my hand is cramping and hurting worse than ever. It starts hurting after I write just a few lines.

I have dysgraphia, but when I was little, my teachers would force me to write for hours so it wouldn't be the case. I still hate writing and my right hand hurts every time. I am trying to become more left handed though, it's just more enjoyable when a bureaucrat isn't trying to force it into you.

My teachers tried to get my to hold a pen/pencil more loosely when I was little but I never could do it. I have to grip really hard. It has always hurt to write but lately it is worse.

It's just weird how I'm beginning to misspell words when I write. I don't remember having a problem with that before.

I had those same problems, dianthus. I have dysgraphia.

I think there is some dysgraphia-dyslexia overlap, but what you describe sounds very dysgraphic.

Do you have these troubles with writing at the computer as well? Your spelling seems pretty good here, so I think it is dysgraphia. I have a dyslexic friend and he troubles with writing at the computer as well.
I tend to mistype on the computer and write letters in the wrong order on paper, but I have never had any problem with reading so I probably just have dysgraphia+ADD, that equals having a bad handwriting and being so unfocused that you skip letters when you write.

I don't have the same trouble typing on a keyboard. But I catch my typing mistakes quick though and fix them without really thinking about it, so I may not be registering how many mistakes I'm actually making.

When I catch mistakes in my handwriting, I can't hit the backspace key to fix it so it is more frustrating. And I do catch them while I'm in the process of doing it. It's not like I write it all out and then look back and realize I misspelled things. I watch my hands writing something down wrong and I just can't stop it.

I was Diagnosed with Dysgraphia before ASD.

I have hyperlexia but also dyscalculia. The polar opposite of so many aspies, or so NTs like to think.
I can't remember not being able to read at all but adding or subtracting double-digit numbers in my head or trying to read long numbers makes my brain ache. Or it would ache if it could actually feel pain.
I've been told I have good handwriting "for a lefty". I'm not the best typist but I've been typing for so long now I think I've gotten pretty decent at it... unless I have to type a symbol I don't commonly use and then I have to stop and search my keyboard until I find it. And then I feel almost as dumb as Homer Simpson when he couldn't find the "any key".

The Learning Disabilities Association describes Dysgraphia as follows:

Dyslexia is difficulty reading, dysgraphia is difficulty writing.

If you can read fine but have trouble writing, you have dysgraphia, not dyslexia. It doesn't matter what kind of writing difficulties you have, just that they don't affect your reading.

Dyslexia usually causes difficulty writing as well, since it's hard to express something in a mode you can't understand, but if the written expression issues are disproportionate to the severity of the reading problem, then you could have both dyslexia and dysgraphia.

My dysgraphia appeared at age eight or nine years when I stopped writing in cursive (a very tedious process for me at the time -- and since), and started writing in block letters despite what my teachers and family demanded of me. I have used block letters ever since. I wonder if my OCPD made matters worse because my cursive wasn't bad, just not fluid and easy.

I'm always dropping letters and transposing them when I type or hand write. I've started handwriting while studying math. It is so different from drawing or painting. Really hurting my hands to get the muscles back in tone for that as well as re-learning' my 'pencil grip'. But always hated writing by hand. Turns out that happens with words while speaking too. Dunno if they are correlated.

My handwriting has never been good, which is strange considering I can draw. It's really, really bad now because of lack of practice.

When I read, I will invert meanings sometimes. I will spend more time on the questions many times, than solving or answering them. Reading large blocks of text makes my eyes grey out. I have to re-read things many times because I lose track of where I am while reading. Jumping lines and all while reading.

Worse is when I read and just sort of grey out while something triggers a thought or just greying out....almost like the page doesn't want me o complete things.

I have Dyslexia & Dysgraphia. I was told that Dysgraphia was a certain form of Dyslexia that I had in addition to other Dyslexic characteristics.

I used to have dyslexia, making it extremely difficult to read and understand any sentence, until the age of 12.

Then, i found out that if you force yourself to "slower" your eyes while reading, the letters come "in the right order". Then training to put images on words. As soon as i understood that, i started to read, read, read, never enough!


I also have cramps when i write, after 2 sentences, my writing becomes awful, i have to rest and stretch my hand.

When taking notes at school, i had invented a lot of signs for current words and an abbreviation system (so that i can take notes at the same rhythm as others). At high school, my system was so elaborated that i was taking notes quicker than others

I like playing the piano, but i get cramps very quickly as well, maybe it also helps me training my hands.

[quote="LaetiBlabla"]I used to have dyslexia, making it extremely difficult to understand any sentence while reading, until the age of 12.

Then, i found out that if you force yourself to "slower" your eyes while reading, the letters come "in the right order". As soon as i understood that, i started to read, read, read, never enough!/quote]1) Congratulations!! Reading is really amazing. Think of it, you can read the thoughts of a person from thousands of years ago.

But I do have a question. Would it really be "Used to have Dyslexia?" or would it be "You overcame the dyslexia, but it still exists."