iWrite- Braeden Bowen

If you've ever seen me in class before, you'll know that technology has a very big impact on my life.

I have dysgraphia, a disorder comparable to dyslexia. I can't write. I just can't. Supposedly, the issue is that my brain and hand cannot sync quickly enough to write correctly, resulting in writing that looks like "dead spiders" (someone did say that to me, I'm not making that up).

Having a laptop has saved me, honestly. With it, I can type and email my assignments to my teachers, which really makes things easier on my teacher and me. Although it is sometimes difficult to make charts, graphs, and drawings quickly enough to keep up, I've learned to adapt work that everyone does by hand to a digital format.

As I've gotten older, technology has playing an increasingly large role in my life. I continue to do my work on the computer, but I can also use Photoshop to create images, LightWorks and After Effects to edit videos, and Audacity to splice music. In newspaper, all of our publications are online, so I've learned how to work with WordPress, HTML, CSS, and PHP, some of the cornerstone online programming languages. I use my phone to take photos and videos, take notes, and access cloud data. I even run around Central Office every day fixing everybody's iPads and printers.

In a way, having dysgraphia has secured my future. I am so involved with technology that, no matter what my future career is, it will involve technology in a major way. From school to career, technology will follow me-- and maybe vice versa.