I Was Stupid Until The Computer Came Along

When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with a condition called dyspraxia — a motor-coordinational learning disability that means that writing by hand, while also incredibly hard to read, is both physically and mentally painful for me. Every time I pick up a pen to write something longer than a sentence I feel genuinely frustrated, the signals from my brain to my hand never quite syncing up, with every letter feeling like a nasty little picture that reminds me that I am, on some level, quite broken. And, unsurprisingly, this led to incredibly bad grades in secondary school whenever I was…