Reflective Essay: The Balance Between Reading And Writing

One-One-One-One For The Road For an American born and raised student, English, Literature, and Writing are commonplace in both primary and secondary school curriculums. Yet, for myself specifically, these curriculums were not the construct of any institution, instead, for a majority of my life, my education took place in my home, as a homeschooled student. And, because of this arrangement, I possessed an undiagnosed disability in writing until late in my secondary school career at a private institution. With the assistance of dedication and providence, however, my final year of secondary school was accompanied by a rapid growth in my textual composition. Although my abilities in critical reading and writing were fostered with an unorthodox education, and despite my natural predispositions, college-level English courses are not beyond my comfortable understanding of english, so, with the dedication needed to …show more content…
A disorder of written expression can possess a wide range of characters for each individual, but, simply, I require extraordinary amount of time to write a basic statement, or, much longer than anyone with a similar intelligence and education. This disorder, of course, did not appear during primary school, since a homeschooler has no strict deadlines or schedules to keep. But, when I transitioned to a private school and a schedule became a necessity, I took twice to ten-times as long to produce an equivalent amount of written work to my peers, which caused havoc upon any form of timekeeping. Fortunately, despite being a memorable experience of pain, eventually, my mother was able to get this condition diagnosed by a medical professional, and have my school set up an Individualized Education Program