It's actually working maybe - dysgraphia (?!) revisited.

The copywork thing, which played itself out here last night at about 10:00 p.m. because someone procrastinated all day long went as I predicted and hoped.  He whined because he had to do it over and mom would not budge on this issue, but then he copied again, checked it twice (the thing is he knows when the letters are facing the right way!) and it was correct.  I have a feeling today's effort is going to go well.  He knows if he reverses he has to do it over and that seems to be a very good motivator for a child who does not like to write. 

I think there are several things going on here.  The first is that he does not write as easily as other people do.  I noticed when he was little that he did not want to draw, write or color like his siblings had.   The other 2 wrote and drew all the time.  The second is that he tends to see things in many different dimensions at once.  Someone told me once to think of a chair.  If it is facing with the seat to the right, it is kind of the shape of a letter b, if it is facing with the seat to the left, it's shaped like a letter d.  Upside down, it's a p or a q.   Some kids can't see how the way it's facing matters until they are a little older.   See this link about right brain learning styles and especially the part about "This is when their brain is ready to shift from three-dimensional pictorial processing to include two-dimensional symbolic processing."  The third thing is a lack of practice.  He's so resistent to writing that I have enabled him and written things for him, simply to expedite things.  (Hey, I'm a working, homeschooling mom, I only have so much time to wait while someone whines!)

So I am not sure that this is dysgraphia (which is why I put a question mark on the title yesterday) or whether dysgraphia even exists or is just a learning difference that does not fit the usual, more typical pattern, but is not a disability, just a different way of doing things, associated with being right brained as opposed to left brained, kind of the same way some people are left handed. 

Anyway, we are making progress.