Dyspraxic Adults

Well. The occupational therapist (OT) referred me to the neuropsychology team as she thought i would benefit from a neuropsychological evalution. The neuropsychology team said, "Nope, no can do, not our jurisdiction". They won't take anybody without a diagnosis. And I don't technically have a ...

(x-posted from my Facebook) Had a call from the occupational therapist about half an hour ago. She'd referred me to the community mental health team, as i said before. They've sent her a letter back saying they won't help me as they don't feel I have a mental health condition. They may be right ...

I walked late, and when I did walk my mum says I would walk with my bum stuck out and my lower back curved. When I was 8 (possibly before then) I had a permanent lower back arch (lumbar lordosis), though whether I would have developed this anyway and whether I already had the start of it and that's ...

I would be very interested to know what other peoples' views on this are. Are dyspraxia and related conditions who we are? I have been getting somewhere with my assessment and diagnosis recently, which is amazing, and I said to my brother that it was such a relief to have some insight and knowledge ...

Been to see the occupational therapist today to talk about executive functions. She went through a lot of questions, asked me all sorts of stuff - talked about how I was as a child, a teenager, now. She wrote a lot of stuff down and said that she is absolutely positive now that I have problems with ...

I am 26 too. :-) When I was 16 and in foster care, I was made to get a job by my foster mother. I had no interest in working at all, but she said I had to get a summer job - it was just something one did as a teenager. Worked at New Look for two evenings a week, and 6 hours on Saturday. It was ...

Perhaps the word 'dyspraxia' is a bit of a curse. My neurologist would not use the word. - he insisted it was a symptom and not a condition. He was wrong, at least in part - dyspraxia can be a symptom, occurring as a result of something else, but developmental dyspraxia IS a condition. Perhaps ...

@Pooky

Is there anything you can do to change it, for your own safety?

It's so comforting to be among people who totally get where you're coming from. :) @conor - Fortunately for me, when I was furnishing my flat, my support worker refused to allow me to get a cooker with gas hobs. I wanted that because my parents always said that electric was harder to cook on. My ...

About a week ago, I left an electric hob on overnight. I did not figure this out until the following night when I came to cook some pasta. So I turned it off, muttering angrily to myself. Boiled the kettle for the pasta, boiling water into pan - and forgot to turn the hob on. Half an hour later, I ...

I disagree entirely with saying that if you think you can do something you can and if you think you can't, you can't. That has led to me being treated very badly by people I know because they think that if I just had a better attitude I'd be fine. As if somehow if I could convince myself that I'm ...

Or you could do as I do and not bother shaving your legs. You don't need to, if you don't want to.

Different specialists seem to have very different views as to what dyspraxic is. My OT, for example, she looks at ideo-motor and ideational dyspraxia. She says that if you can't mime the action of using an object without having the object in your hand, even though you can see it - that is ideo-motor ...

I don't have all the symptoms either - I have no problem with left and right and my rhythm is excellent. I've been diagnosed with "some dyspraxic tendencies" and investigations are ongoing as to what other things I may have. I guess only you can determine if it's worth getting assessed or not. Do ...

Holly, Your GP is an imbecile. I suspect that he is not the only doctor at the practice you go to. See a different one. Is this making you unhappy, depressed, lacking in self-esteem? If it is, tell them that, because docs may not give too much of a stuff about dyspraxia or people saying their words ...