Dyspraxic Adults

I'm asthmatic with eczema, and have a couple of phobias. I'm prone to anxiety but don't know how much of that's just a result of the dyspraxic and attentional difficulties. Very interesting connection with birth problems. I was born small, but not dangerously small, and was a bit jaundiced but didn'...

Brief update: The last time I posted, some time last year I think, I was waiting to be assessed. They offered no date for months and eventually I talked myself out of thinking it would do any good anyway, and the college presumably forgot about it. I realised that clumsy handwriting, while there, wa...

Hello, I hope you can work yourself out and feel at home here. I'm in the same boat as you, except it's everyone else telling me I 'just need more confidence' and to pay more attention to my surroundings and what I'm doing. Have you thought about being assessed for learning disabilities?

I'm forever being pulled up for speaking to quickly, mumbling or NOT JUDGING MY VOLUME...*ahem* correctly. :-# Me too. Well, people don't let me know that I mumble, but when I hear my voice back I can tell for myself that my pronunciation is rather haphazard for someone using their first language. ...

http://school.familyeducation.com/intelligence/teaching-methods/38519.html I'm of the generation that's had to fill out questionnaires about this stuff every school term since turning fourteen. It helps, especially if the teachers use the understanding properly. Sometimes they try to use the theory...

I can't prove that wrong, robyn, I just find my hypothesis more likely with the things I've read. Especially as I hadn't heard of dyspraxia before I noticed all the kids with symptoms and was probably less aware of the characteristics of the children around me than when I was a pupil. But we'll have...

the massive increase in incidence in the uk is far more likely explain by greater knowlegde and recognition of dyspraxia and related conditions, and a greater willingness of professionals to assess and accomedate it I disagree - where are all the adults with developmental disorders? Do 1 in 58 midd...

Heights, being upside-down (not so bad now, but I hated how confusing and unknown it was to have my feet above my head, and the fact that I couldn't imagine what I would see when doing a rolly-polly somehow freaked me out and still confuses me), spiders. Social phobia in the past - other people's di...

I struggle to tolerate noisy clubs too, even though at other times I appear hard of hearing. I really enjoy dancing, but only when alone and with no mirrors around. It's not conventional dancing (convention - yuk) but whatever I'm doing it's cathartic and expressive movement, so what else should you...

A lot of firstborns. I'm the eldest too. I've heard it's thought we're more intelligent. :grin: Neither of us has been assessed, but I have signs of dyspraxia and my only sister, dyslexia. Both disorders are linked to fatty acid imbalance, which would make sense as my mum didn't eat oily fish or alg...

I'm wondering if, as sensory processing is sometimes affected by dyspraxia, trouble with distinguishing between tones might be too. Hard as I try, I don't usually seem to hear myself when I sing because I'm trying to think about how it's supposed to sound at the same time. So I can't tell when I sou...

The effect of the diet, undiagnosed allergies and mineral metabolism on dyspraxia. I would say that, as I want to be a Dietician. Still, there is some research about it and I'd like to see more. It pretty much says the same as it does about all developmental disorders: optimal fatty acid balance, or...

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As I've mentioned elsewhere, I experience sleep paralysis with hallucinations about once a month. I have wondered to what extent they are 'hallucinations'. For example, the first times it happened (I was fifteen I think) involved seeing myself levitated over a foot above my bed and even end up just ...

Clearly I've been living under a rock all my life, as I hadn't heard of this until today. Looks like the sort of activity that could really help hone co-ordination and sequencing skills, safely and in private. Trying to compete would be depressing, but still I would be interested in getting a set of...