All my life I've been clumsy, have had poor co-ordination with hand-to-eye skills (making the life of your average little boy pretty embaressing) and most of all absolutely illegible handwriting. I thought this was all down to simply bad luck. In my GCSEs (I'm in England) I did a mixture of pretty abysmally in some subjects to an A* in English Lit, and I thought simply that this was due to me having very particular strength and weaknesses.
For my A levels I moved to a different school to study English Lit, Geography, Biology and Classical Civilizations, luckily at this school the learning support group were very supportive and got me listed as dyslexic/dyspraxic simply as a way to get hold of a laptop for my exams, no one thinking I actually had a learning difficulty but simply wanting to help my handwriting. This paid off alot and I managed to get 4 A's in my A levels.
I'm now at Uni and in order to continue gaining support i had to go in for a full dyslexia/dyspraxia assessment performed by the psychology department, I honestly didn't think it would come back as either. I went in today and got my results, no to dyslexia but I apparently am dyspraxic. Considering I hadn't really heard much of dyspraxia before now, what it was, what the symptons were etc were all explained to me and many of them do apply to me. In all honesty up until today I just thought I had a few little oddities, and that they were simply unexplainable, it's nice to know that there is at least a name for what I am and that I'm not alone
I thought i'd join thisforum to find out about other peoples experiences and of course share my own.In terms of interests, they're varied. I love music, particularly metal and operatic/choral music and to this end I write and edit for an online music mag. I enjoy minature wargaming, although obviously the painting side is tricky. Gaming is also rather fun. I'm also a Pagan (Asatru) and to that end I am secretary of my Uni's Pagan society.
Oh yes, I am currently studying Classical and Historical Archaeology with the hopes of oneday either doing a masters or teaching history at High School level.
Thanks for reading,
Will
I went digging in Scotland a few years ago... itneresting site, but found zilch. What ssort of period is your favorite?