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A reminder that Glinda having either dyslexia/dysgraphia or a learning disability is canon in the Movieverse.

Ozian History
by
Galinda Arduenna Upland

Although myself descends from royal nobility* of the Aduennas and of the Uplands, most recently and perhaps always, of Gilliken, the historification of our great land of Oz began before me.
Oz was a wonderful land surrounded by a large body of water which would, um, water the fields. In these fields dirty old farmers grew our food. We needed this food even though it was planted by unfashionable dusty horses and rusty plows. This was before "The Great Drought" when many Ozians found that a glass of water[...]

This is the same paper that we see her get back in this scene, in which we can see this was a large essay too.

A Reminder That Glinda Having Either Dyslexia/dysgraphia Or A Learning Disability Is Canon In The Movieverse.

There's nothing rushed to her handwriting, this was not an essay done at the last minute, and still, it shows several signs of a learning disability and/or dysgraphia.

Misspells her name in the second line

Wrong and inconsistent pronoun usage

Her margin spacing is consistent with someone who can't do proper syllable division

Immature transcription (see: writes her "um"s)

Limited vocabulary

Shows signs of: difficulty expressing ideas in writing, having a limited vocabulary, mispronouncing words or using a wrong word that sounds similar, and having trouble organizing what she wants to say. Those are all symptoms of a learning disability.

Less of a checklist sign, but her handwriting is very round and careful, while still not being consistently sized (see unfashionable). This and the margin sizes are very common in kids with bad dysgraphia who are made to take rigorous calligraphy courses to "fix the problem". Courses that work on the visual without remedying its underlying issues and causes. Form over content if you will.

Looking at this very blatant sign that she has a learning disability and immediately defaulting to calling her names (yes calling her stupid and saying Elphaba is a moronsexual for this counts), asking how she got into Shiz, or defending Dillamond in doing the very first thing teachers are told NOT to do with disabled students (re: calling attention to it in front of the entire class) is ableist!