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Although my writing looks neat and legible, it takes a lot of effort for me to make it like this. After writing for about 2 minutes, my arm starts to ache really badly, so much so that it puts me off writing at all. Could this be a form of dysgraphia?

It takes me forever to read a book, like at least a month, and I get tired while reading easily, and also find it difficult to concentrate. I find myself losing my place and having to re-read sections of the book because I've forgotten what I just read. Could this be a form of dyslexia?

I have no co-ordination, I was terrible at PE, etc.. could this be dyspraxia?

I am terrible at mental arithmatic, my mind just goes blank if I have to work out a calculation in my head. I am ok if I'm allowed to use a calculator, and managed to get an A in my maths GCSE, and B in AS level maths. Could this be dyscalcula?

I don't think you have dyscalculia, but the others do sound likely.

Dyspraxia also causes bad handwriting, I hate having to write and I'm diagnosed with dyspraxia. If I write very slowly I can make it decent, but I do really mean very slowly, and it'd take a lot of effort. It's simply not practical.

Today I did a test and the writing made my hand hurt, too.

I'd never heard of dysgraphia before, but I just looked it up and TBH I can't tell the difference between it and dyspraxia.

I have dyscalculia and its a bit like dylexia. I read numbers backwards...like 42 is 24. I have a very hard time remembering numbers and can not grap higher level mathematical formulas....I can not understand algebra.
I taught myself to add, subtract and multiply by visualizing numbers and division confused the heck out of me until I convinced myself that its sort of backwards multiplication, basically like subtraction is addition in reverse.

There are many kinds of dyscalcula. It's very common for one kind of dyscalculic person to suck at arithmetic but excel at say calculus.

t's very common for one kind of dyscalculic person to suck at arithmetic but excel at say calculus.

Replace calculus with high school algebra and 2D geometry proofs and you've described me pretty accurately. If it's pure logic I'm great at it, if it involves calculation or spatial perception of any kind I'm bound to get it wrong. Does this count as dyscalculia, then? I've wondered for a long time...

Handwriting. Lots of people have poor handwriting and as people use computers more than pens it ain't going to get any better. Don't worry.

Reading. My brother had dyslexia so I have a fair idea of what it's like. You don't have it.

Co-ordination. Lots of aspies are terrible at PE and games including me. If you have a good games teacher then he'll keep plugging on until you find something you're good at (in my case it was distance running). If he doesn't care then you'll just get lumped in with the others.

Finally, if you got a B in your AS Level Maths then you're better at it than I was. I got a C in my A level and it meant that I did my degree at Manchester rather than Oxford.

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Dyspraxia is probablly common with 80% of people with aspergers.
Dysgraphia is more than bad hand writting. It also involves poor spelling and sentance structuring. Especially with writting paragraphs.
Dyslexia might may be possible as well but the symptoms you described could also be adhd. Personally I have such poor reading comprehension that I cant even understand how to pay my bills, fill out basic paperwork, or know which phone number on a paper to call and ask questions about the paperwork. This also has to do with me not being able to consentrate on reading a full peice of paper.
Dyscalcula usually involves being bad at math. I dont know much about it. Im good at math but not the other things.