Victoria Biggs
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238 appearances
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first heard Sep 2019
last heard Sep 2019
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Uh when I was assessed and diagnosed with dyspraxia, I found that some of my cognitive skills, particularly around language, put me in the top zero point one percent of the sixteen year old population, whereas others put me in the bottom zero point three percent.
So
Extreme gaps.
And because of these extreme gaps which showed themselves in that I could read Jane Austen at the age of ten, I'd read her complete works, and yet I couldn't finish a simple assignment in class.
My handwriting was so slow.
Because of those extreme gaps, some teachers decided
That I was being lazy, that someone as capable as me couldn't be incapable of finishing work.
I just wasn't trying.
I was just being insolent.
I thought it was beneath me.
And they used to say this to me.
And I'd been busting a gut, I'd been trying my best, and I remember sitting there.
trying to hold back the tears, um, as these things were said to me.
Other teachers
Conversely had the belief that I wasn't very bright.
Um it depend which side they saw of me and whether my difficulties or my strengths were more in evidence in their lesson.
And I have a particular humiliating memory of one French lesson where I'd worked really hard to produce an essay I'd written about Marie Antoinette.
And the teacher called me to her at lunch and said, Well, it's obvious you didn't write this by yourself.
Where did you copy it from?
And every word was mine.
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