Victoria Biggs
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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And also with autism, there's some interesting research showing that dyspraxic adults who don't meet criteria for an autism diagnosis still have a higher rate of autistic traits than the general population.
So so yeah, there's some link there.
Oh yes.
Well, being diagnosed with dyspraxia was a major watershed moment in my life.
Um I'd had a lot of trouble in school, um, which people are often surprised to hear about now because I have a PhD, I went to the University of Cambridge.
got one of the highest marks in the country um for my A level exams, my graduating exams.
And yet, in spite of this, when I was thirteen, I had nine months out of school because I had a breakdown, I just wasn't coping.
Um, teachers believed I was either lazy or not trying, or just not very capable, had been badly bullied on the basis of my differences.
And it all got to the point where I just wasn't coping anymore.
And at fifteen I finally had that neuropsychological assessment and was diagnosed with dyspraxia and it was like a light bulb going on in my head as I realised all the different things I'd struggled with were actually part of a pattern.
And I needed some help, but when I and my reaction when I need help is to read.
I've always been a voracious reader ever since the age of two.
But when I turned to the bookshelves, um everything I could find was written for parents or teachers of much younger children.
There was almost nothing on teenagers and nothing that spoke directly to teenagers.
Um so I sat down to write the missing book.
Um I was part of a support group for teenagers with learning differences by this time and so I got everybody together and we crowdsourced our best tips and strategies for getting through adolescence.
Um I wrote them down and weaved them in with my own story and they became caged in chaos.
And I'd always knew I intended to publish it, but
It never actually hit me what that would mean until I got to Cambridge, first day at university.
And there was a note in my pigeonhole from one of my new professors saying his two little nieces have got dyspraxia and he'd really enjoyed reading my book over the summer.
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