Twitch Posted June 8, 2007 Share Posted June 8, 2007 My question is...is it possible to develope a writing disorder like Dysgraphia because of Schizophrenia? I developed schiz. when I was 11, and before I developed psychosis and severe disorganization symptoms I wrote perfectly (I recieved awards for it!). Now I'm horrible at grammer (althouh somehow Im a stickler on it) my lower/uppercase letters can be skewered (switched), and my writing is atrocious. I read perfectly (except my own work) and have an English college level. Twitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimpmaster Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 My question is...is it possible to develope a writing disorder like Dysgraphia because of Schizophrenia? I developed schiz. when I was 11, and before I developed psychosis and severe disorganization symptoms I wrote perfectly (I recieved awards for it!). Now I'm horrible at grammer (althouh somehow Im a stickler on it) my lower/uppercase letters can be skewered (switched), and my writing is atrocious. I read perfectly (except my own work) and have an English college level. Twitch I dont know if there is a relationship, but I too have terrible hand writing. I dont know what I would have done if Id lived in the age prior to computers or even typewriters for that matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted June 18, 2007 Share Posted June 18, 2007 Although I'm not schizophrenic, I am autie and I do have some form of dysgraphia - most frequently, I misspell words by "sound-typing" them, i.e., typing in a homophone of the word I was trying to type. Either that, or typing a non-existent word that would sound the same as the target word. I also do the letter transposition thing. But, as you can tell, my dysgraphia is a pure verbal issue, since it also happens when I type. Back when I was capable of writing anything of significant length, I'd have those problems as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdjeff Posted June 19, 2007 Share Posted June 19, 2007 Interesting thought. I have dysgraphia but I'm Shcizoaffective. I am also terrible at math. I'm 29 amd my 8 year old runs circles around me. Funny, since I'm better than average on all else. I wonder if there is something about thought disorders and dysgraphia together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LikeMinded Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Interesting thought. I have dysgraphia but I'm Shcizoaffective. I am also terrible at math. I'm 29 amd my 8 year old runs circles around me. Funny, since I'm better than average on all else. I wonder if there is something about thought disorders and dysgraphia together. Eh well, schizoaffective, Aspie/HFA, schizophrenia... we know they have a lot in common, and perhaps dysgraphia is one of the things in common here. As far as thought disorder/psychosis and dysgraphia, I've been unable to find any useful studies on that. The only one I found on PubMed (the US government-run journal search database) was done in 1968, and doesn't even have an abstract available. However, some clinicians will actually say that dysgraphia in and of itself is a part of thought disorder (which is probably why nobody's done a paper specifically about it!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_disorder The above doesn't explicitly mention dysgraphia, but it does discuss several very similar verbal symptoms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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