I dont have dyspraxia, I'm actually just asking questions because I have a character that has it and I'm trying to be realistic and respectful.
I know it's a spectrum sort of, so can you guys drive or is it not a viable kind of thing
I don't feel very pretty recently. I can't do makeup, I can't put my hair up, let alone other styles. I can't even cut my blunt bangs remotely straight, and I can't paint my nails. I feel like an untidy mess. before i do attempt to mess my face/hair up..
are press-ons easier to do than nail polish? I'm really messy with polish, and half of it gets on my skin when I try to remove it, I end up getting remover on my nails, or it looks even worse 🥲
I was diagnosed with autism and dyspraxia when I was around 7,(I am currently 24.) and my mom referred to my muscles as jello a lot. She was told by the therapists to push me, but I think she took it too far.
She was not positively encouraging, she took me struggling to push myself as stubbornness and uselessness.
The family was a blended one, with ex stepdad and his kids, and my mom and us. We went hiking frequently, and when I would be huffing and puffing struggling to walk faster I’d get scolded by stepdad to keep up. He was even worse than my mom. We’d go camping, and starting when I was 11 we integrated backpacking into it where we’d hike a couple miles in camp for a couple days then a couple miles back. There was one time when I was 12, when we hiked in 12 miles and stayed for two weeks then 12 miles back. My mom let us take 15 minute breaks every couple miles or so, against stepdads wishes. We worked up to 12 miles, it wasn’t a big jump, but I still feel like I was pushed too hard. Not to mention, even when I was on my period stepdad reacted the same way.
I want people with dyspraxia or who truly understand it to give feedback. In my opinion I feel like there was too much exercise in my childhood, and it was over exerting. I mean who scolds someone huffing and puffing, that they aren’t going fast enough? 🤷🏻♀️ my throat hurt with how exhausted I was.
I just found out while going through old papers. I'M FORTY.
Apparently I was diagnosed in elementary school, somewhere between 7 and 10. My handwriting is terrible and I'm always lost. My entire life I've been given grief over my writing, now I know there's a reason. Nice of them to inform me.
It gets better. Because when I was 12 I was evaluated for OT. The person doing the evaluation said I didn't need it. I wrote "quickly and haphazardly" the first time she asked, then she offered me candy if I could do better. Slowing down, it was mostly legible, so it was decided that I didn't need help. That's the thing; I can write legibly, but it takes twice as long as other people. I was never given time to do so. All through school, I was rushed and then berated because my writing was bad.
But I'm glad to have found this subreddit. Thank you for being here. :)
Just why me?! Why did i have to get this condition that makes literally everything a trillion times harder?!
This semester for uni, me and my teammates were given the task of making a design document for a game that would cater to people with a disability of our choice. We chose dyspraxia / DCD. Even though I was the only person on the team with this condition what was written was so moving to me that I felt like I had to share it here
Feel free to share your thoughts but please don't ask us to make this game IRL.
Sometimes I'm unable to look where someone is pointing. Like, if you point something far to my left, I won't know where to look. Lol, I remember times when I caused a bit of chaos in the car because my dad was pointing at things like airplanes or horses, and I couldn't see them. So everyone was trying to explain and getting frustrated that I couldn't see anything.
Also, sometimes I can't tell where people are looking. If someone is in front of me, I can't tell if they're looking at me or what exactly they're looking at.
Does anyone else just feel they should go live in a home where people look after you because you feel incapable of looking after yourself and doing things for yourself?
It's ridiculous
Hey all!
So, my wife claims she has dispraxyia and while i tried to assist where I can I have not until now givin her remarks she was suffering from dyspraxia a srcond thought. But now I want to do so. Do you know a way to effectively adjust to a new car with dyspraxia? Redundance? Markers? An Instructor? Yoga or meditation beforehand? What? I'm a bit a loss and the new car is a lot bigget then was our old one.
Any advice is appreciated.
Currently each time she drives down the garage I am riding shotgun and try to talk her through it but I dont think its working at all.
Hello there I need some help. My boyfriend is diagnosed with dyspraxia and has a lot of difficulty with remembering things, planning and organisation and etc.
I always been very understanding but after almost 3 years of a relationship I am starting to feel unloved and unappreciated. I have been begging for years for him to remember to do small chores every now and then around the house without me asking. like cleaning some dishes, taking the trash out cleaning after himself after cooking, picking up his clothing off the floor etc. And his response is that dyspraxia makes him like that and then goes back to a memory of when his mother used to make him a list so he would remember to do anything besides being on his computer. That said I did that once and it worked. But can't help but feeling like I am acting like his mom. leaving a note every now and then is ok but for every house chore sounds a bit absurd?
Another thing is the remembering things about me or planning anything nice. He doesn't do it. I feel unloved because his routine is awaking up working or awaking up computer. we do show affection towards each other but don't do anything else besides going out with his work mates which pub life is not for me. I don't want to call him lazy but I feel like he puts a lot more effort in his online hobbies an friends then our relationship. And I am not asking for his entire time to be devoted to me. I just can't help but feeling like a convenience.
lastly is the walking together outside. I don't mind the bumping and clumsiness, is the walking so fast ahead me without checking in or at least trying to walk at similar pace. he says is the spacial awareness that he struggles with but I seem him running to other people excitedly all the time.
Please tell me if I am being unreasonable, I never been with anyone with dyspraxia. But I really feel unloved and I feel every time I try to talk about it is always "I have dyspraxia there is nothing I can do" "or "I don't know what to do about it" and then says "what if I pointed out how bad it is that you can't focus or start a project because you have ADHD". I feel is unfair as this things don't really relate directly to our relationship.
thank you for reading!!
My fingers are slow and won't respond well. Clumsy. Tired. Trying to think about how to do things feels like my brains trying to put together a puzzle.
Anyone else? Feels so depressing.
Im so sick of people saying i shouldnt doubt myself! Let them deal with what i deal with 247 then they can judge me!
I want to go back to grad school, but my reading skills are horrible. Reading academic literatures are mentally uncomfortable. And both my mind and eyes jerk/glitch from time to time (supposedly dyspraxia or other neurological problems). My eyes are involuntarily moving on its own or suddenly black for milliseconds.
I can’t access flow state, it’s so rare, as my mind keeps getting interrupted (internally my brain signals feel like glitching (same with how my eyes jerked) for milliseconds, plus externally distracted).
Bother my short and long term memory are terrible.
Hi Ive been treated as subhuman all my life and still i attempted at 8 for the first time i don't have a. High school diploma no friends and An eating disorder im nothing like everyone Else my age and im a failure ?? Is euthanasia An option for dyspraxia?? Im sufferinh so much bc of it i live in belguim btw
Hi! Ive been practicing my driving for a couple months and im so stressed about getting my driver's license. I also have really bad anxiety and under stress a lot of my dyspraxia symptoms worsen. i do relatively okay driving with my boyfriend in the passenger seat helping me navigate and reassuring me. but im worried that once i get in the car with a stranger and under the pressure of a test my dyspraxia plus anxiety combo will completely fail me. if you have anxiety and dyspraxia do you notice your symptoms get worse under stress? how did you manage this when trying to drive? especially when taking the drivers test? i know everyone here says to take it slow because it takes longer for us to learn to drive, but i need my license relatively soon for financial reasons. so, it feels like the pressure keeps getting higher which then worsens my symptoms while driving because i know theres a lot riding on my success with getting my license!! any advice on this is greatly appreciated!! i will say, it has been so encouraging reading other peoples successes with driving. im so proud of you all!
For context i have never been officially diagnosed, teachers etc have informed my mom but never took it much seriously. I am also from a country not so sensitive in such topics. Now i am 28 years also F and even though I have achieved some big milestones like having bachelor and masters degree, living abroad alone for years and now working at a good governmental job. Still i cant have my life together and i am afraid i will not be able to become a mother sometime because i am very clumsy and not good at talking care of others. I have been fired from two babysitter jobs in the past, is very difficult to cook and use knife, o can't drive and i have terrible balance and coordination. Thats my main problems and i wanted to hear from someone with similar problems how they manage their lives and if they made their own family. How is it like. I am.from Greece and haven't met a person like me irl.