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_{Any of the following would be considered neurodivergent: Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder,
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• _{Day 2: Slytherin House Dynamics}
  
• _{Day 3: Owls and Newt
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• _{Day 5: Youngest Teacher on the Staff/Head of House (during and after the war)}
  
• _{Day 6: Harry Potter’s Arrival}
  
• _{Day 7: Voldemort’s Return/Becoming an Active Spy} 

_{Theme: Overcoming Challenges}

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Oh this is going to be fun… so many ideas… and I do need to put them all here or I’ll lose them because dyslexic/dyspraxic #fitting

Snape with verbal dyspraxia? Mixing up sentences in his words that still somehow make sense because his brain autocorrected but his tongue didn’t.

Forgetful young teacher Snape finding out he’s dyslexic well after he left school (like I did)? “excuse me, you have seen my exam results i assure you i am not illiterate.” “no one said you were Severus, but have you seen your handwriting and workspace? It looks like a spider fell into an inkwell, wandered across the parchment and then let the bomb on it’s back off in the pile of paperwork you left on your desk three weeks ago and couldn’t find yesterday when you were supposed to be returning it to your first years.”

Dyspraxia- Suddenly not being able to ride a broomstick makes perfect sense.

ADHD- there’s just something about potions that calms him down.

Dyslexia- “hold on? The words don’t strobe at you when you’re tired? I don’t believe you! Why would you ever stop reading if they didn’t do that?”

“Why would I write anything down? it’s not like anyone, including me, will be able to read it later” but also “if I don’t take copious notes and write down every detail I will never remember any of this.” – pick your SPLD

“I LITERALLY had my wand in my hand three seconds ago, where the hell is it?!” In the fridge where you left it for some reason when getting a drink two hours ago.

Sev forgetting and leaving his wand lying around then trashing his quarters looking for it so many times in his first few months as a professor that three of his colleagues independently buy him wand holsters for Christmas

Verbal dyspraxia- “wait, I’m not shouting, stop telling me I’m shouting.”

a conversation with dyspraxia:

Severus: pass me the thing!

Minerva: what thing?

Severus points: the thing! minerva the thing! the long thing!

Minerva: grangers essay?

Severus: the pointy thing!

Minerva watching him brew: stirring rod?

Sev: THE THING minerva! for making the flames smaller

Minera watching him gesture: Oooh, your wand!

Severus: YES my wand! Duh!

Social dyspraxia- “don’t look at me like that, if you didn’t want an honest answer why did you ask for one?”

Autism/Asperger/ social dyspraxia- “why is she crying? What did I say this time? Stop looking at me like that I was only being honest!”

Dyslexia/dyspraxia and the pen grip issue- “Severus what did you do to your hands?” “wrote with a quill for more than three minutes, why?” “I haven’t seen a case of carpal tunnel this bad since Filius decided he was going to teach swish and flick spells to every year for a month.” “Are you suggesting I invest in a dicta-quill?” “If you don’t I swear you’ll get four under your Christmas tree when I tell all the staff that’s what you need.”

Dicta quills that don’t like his accent and keep leaving ink blotches because they stay on the parchment when he stops to think of a word and can’t remember it, and then they transcribe him rapidly talking around the word and talking to himself as he tries to riddle it out because it’s on the tip of his tongue