Caged in Chaos offers practical guidance for young people with dyspraxiaand those around them, and examines the direct effects of Biggs'"learning difference" and other difficulties that dyspraxics endeavourto cope with, such as loneliness.
Biggs quotes from classical literature, historical and contemporarytexts, as she opens our eyes to common incidences of dyspraxia, a"hidden" learning difference. She reminds us that Winston Churchill andAlbert Einstein (who was expelled from school and was still unable totie a pair of shoe laces in old age) had symptoms of dyspraxia, and thatCharlotte Bronte's Jayne Eyre follows the life of an orphan, who iscruelly punished for clumsiness. The character is based on Bronte'ssister Maria, who was too clumsy to sew like a proper young lady and whocouldn't produce elegant copperplate writing.
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