Writing About Disabilities(HFA, Social Anxiety, Dysgraphia, Apraxia, and Dysgraphia)?

College Essays
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<p>Hello, thank you for taking the time to look at my thread!</p>

<p>I am having some trouble choosing which one of the options to write about on the common application and my mother suggested I choose prompt one and write about my overcoming of my disabilities. </p>

<p>Would this be a good idea? My disabilities include High Functioning Autism, Social Anxiety, Verbal Apraxia, and Dysgraphia (defined as fine motor disability). I really don't want to hurt my chances of getting into the college of my choice but this subject is the most personal thing I can write about that has really impacted my life. </p>

<p>My social anxiety and autism are the main things I would write about, in the past years I have been able to overcome them more and more and have been able to do things that once seemed impossible to me. My anxiety reached a climax in the 10th grade where I had to finish the remaining 3/4 of the school year from home (Teacher came to my house to give me assignments and tests and I still manged decent grades, 3.5 first semester, 4.0 second). For the last year I have been attending high school with the most rigorous classes possible at my school without the aid of any medications and have managed to maintain a 4.0 since my second semester of 10th grade. I have also been more social and have made many friends and my disabilities have not stopped me from doing anything I've wanted to recently. </p>

<p>Do you guys think this would be a good topic to write about or that it would hurt my chances of getting accepted? I would focus mainly on what my disabilities have taught me about myself and others and how I have managed to mostly overcome them. </p>

<p>tl;dr Would it be a good idea to write about overcoming my disabilities or not?</p>

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<p>Colleges don’t reject you because of your disabilities. They reject you because either you can’t pay the fees or you are deemed unable to keep up with their curriculum(low grades, low test scores).You seem to have a pretty good/excellent GPA so writing about overcoming your disabilities doesn’t change anything. I think that it can even give you an edge ove the others.
With that said, you definitely should focus on the “overcoming” part and the lessons, don’t write a sob story; it can get real boring real fast.Try to put a positive/optismist spin on things. The adcoms want to see that you’ll be able to do well in college too. Last piece of advice, try not to use corny/cliche phrases like “It’s made me stronger”, “My disabilities has made me the person I am today” or something of sort.
Best of luck!</p>