Dyspraxic Adults

Well, the small amount of research that has been done suggests that *some* people grow out of it (meaning that their skills have simply caught up to normal after a delay in development), in the sense that they are no longer clinically impaired by the dyspraxia itself (though they are still usually ...

Has anyone else here had repetitive, "unskilled" jobs in factories? Did you struggle, or is it just me? I want to know if the events I'm going to describe (among others) from a few years ago, might be the result of dyspraxia, or if they're not even normal for dyspraxia. I know it's not rational and ...

If you want her to understand the problem with saying what she said, I think visual impairment, hearing impairment, or paralysis might be better analogies than cancer, because unlike these disabilities, cancer is a disease, and a deadly one at that. In my experience people get confused about what ...

Saying this, I don't think BPD and Dyspraxia have any links, as such. I just happen to have both. I've been a huge nerd for developmental and mental disorder research for years now, and the only study I've come across regarding the rate of co-occurrence of dyspraxia and personality disorders, was ...

It sounds like you have some level of dyspraxia, although that doesn't rule out Asperger's Syndrome or anything else; it actually makes it more likely. However, self-diagnosis, while often accurate, can be wrong in both directions: thinking you meet the diagnostic criteria, and thinking you don't ...

I definitely do have problems with sequencing and planning in general, in a way that suggests some form of working memory problem; perhaps specifically a visual-spatial one, as the working memory part of the test, which was auditory, was also normal (but again lower than predicted by verbal score ...

Thanks Jim. Good diagram. Having had mental illnesses as well, sometimes I feel I don't want anymore diagnoses; one or two is a relief but more seems depressing, haha. At least I can look at this chart and say I "only" have half of them - the others I have no hint of and am even the opposite of two ...

Hi Katie, I'm not saying your dyspraxia isn't also a problem, but everything you've described in this particular post as a cause of your academic struggle, is a symptom of ADHD (predominantly inattentive type), not dyspraxia. I'm diagnosed with ADHD and probably have dyspraxia as well (about half of ...

One of the things making me doubt a professional would diagnose me with dyspraxia - and making me feel particularly bad at times - is that I can't actually visualise how, for example, a knot for a waste bag should be tied, or how a gift should be wrapped to look right. It's not just that I can't ...

I'm the same in at least some respects even though I'm one of those dyspraxics diagnosed on the autism spectrum. The most famous part of autism is less empathy than average (which isn't the same as a lack of compassion, caring or sense of justice - that's psychopathy, which actually doesn't involve ...

Hi :) I was diagnosed with Predominantly Inattentive ADHD a few years ago, in my early 20s. That's undoubtedly my biggest problem, but it's well-managed with the medication which has literally saved my life. I'm now doing well, in my final year of university, with a hopefully a career in IT ahead of ...