<p>Unfortunately, it’s a depressingly common story. I too can be understanding of people who are not familiar with dysgraphia - I wouldn’t be familiar with it either if it didn’t affect my son. But I can be understanding only up to a point - the point being where their lack of understanding harms my child. If a child’s legs were amputated, we wouldn’t deny the child a wheelchair. It may be harder for someone to understand a disability that they can’t see, but that doesn’t make it an “arcane excuse.” Like your son (and mine), many children with dysgraphia are otherwise very bright, articulate and capable. So I tend to bridle a bit when I see other people’s lack of understanding of a child’s disability causing them to discount it, to make the child feel as though he’s making “excuses”, and to make him feel so self-conscious about accepting appropriate accommodations that he’d rather suffer through without them.</p>