The Author Who Couldn’t Write An author who could not write is interesting. Well, meet Agatha Christie and dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is the reason this extremely talented writer could not spell, or write without pain. With all of her pain, she still wrote amazing books. First, most people know little about dysgraphia. Dysgraphia is explained primarily as a processing problem (Richards 64), and a disease causing trouble with written expression (Understood). Dysgraphia also includes a delay of writing skills (Richards 64). People who have dysgraphia can have many symptoms, although some have more than others (Understood). Some of the more physical symptoms are poor handwriting (Richards 63), poor sound sequencing, sound substitutions
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Dyslexia is a disorder where a person mixes up letters and numbers in their mind and cannot read well. Dyscalculia is also a disease related to writing. Dyscalculia is dealing with math. A person who has dyscalculia is usually not good with numbers and is unable to comprehend basic math. Like dyscalculia, symptoms depend on the person. Several language disorders are also related to dysgraphia because of similar symptoms (Understood) such as the frequent need for verbal cues (Richards 63). Another disease related to dysgraphia is ADHD, ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It is related to dysgraphia because of some of the symptoms as well. …show more content…
Agatha Christie was famous for many books and plays that she wrote. Some of Christie’s more famous ones include A Ticket to the Boneyard, Maigret at the Crossroads, L.A. Confidential, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. One quality all of those books listed have in common is that they are all murder mysteries, the stories she was most famous for. Characters that everyone knew and loved in that generation were Miss M, and Poiret (How Christie Wrote). Other stories and plays she wrote were Witness for the Prosecution, The Mousetrap and The Maltese Falcon (Gale Contextual Encyclopedia).
Due to Christie having dysgraphia, and probably not knowing, it was so hard to write stories because she wrote all of her stories by hand. Even though she had dysgraphia, she still wrote all of her stories this way, and according to her son, finished them within a few months checked them by hand, and then sent them into a publisher. She never let the disability force her to stop doing what she loved most (How Christie Wrote). She did not let it stop her when she wrote Ten Little Indians, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Murder On the Orient Express (Gale Contextual
Dyslexia is a disorder where a person mixes up letters and numbers in their mind and cannot read well. Dyscalculia is also a disease related to writing. Dyscalculia is dealing with math. A person who has dyscalculia is usually not good with numbers and is unable to comprehend basic math. Like dyscalculia, symptoms depend on the person. Several language disorders are also related to dysgraphia because of similar symptoms (Understood) such as the frequent need for verbal cues (Richards 63). Another disease related to dysgraphia is ADHD, ADHD stands for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. It is related to dysgraphia because of some of the symptoms as well. …show more content…
Agatha Christie was famous for many books and plays that she wrote. Some of Christie’s more famous ones include A Ticket to the Boneyard, Maigret at the Crossroads, L.A. Confidential, and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. One quality all of those books listed have in common is that they are all murder mysteries, the stories she was most famous for. Characters that everyone knew and loved in that generation were Miss M, and Poiret (How Christie Wrote). Other stories and plays she wrote were Witness for the Prosecution, The Mousetrap and The Maltese Falcon (Gale Contextual Encyclopedia).
Due to Christie having dysgraphia, and probably not knowing, it was so hard to write stories because she wrote all of her stories by hand. Even though she had dysgraphia, she still wrote all of her stories this way, and according to her son, finished them within a few months checked them by hand, and then sent them into a publisher. She never let the disability force her to stop doing what she loved most (How Christie Wrote). She did not let it stop her when she wrote Ten Little Indians, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and Murder On the Orient Express (Gale Contextual