I didn’t speak until I was 3, so the doctors thought I was ‘slow’. When I did start speaking, it was several word-above-my-age-vocabulary…but I stuttered (still do some times) and had a helluva speech impediment. So the doctors thought I was a special kind of slow. By 3rd grade no one could read my writing, I guess that was a prerequisite for passing at the time because teachers wanted me held back, but I aced every other test…and they decided to let me go until I failed. Long story short, I still write like shit, with zero consistency in penmanship ‘style’, and I’m probably still a special kind of slow. In a college criminal law course, we did an exercise in analyzing handwriting…I was told my lack of consistency in slant, pressure, size, etc was astounding…solidifying how special I am.
