Dyspraxic Adults

No expert on dreams, but when I get nightmares, it is often a sign of physical discomfort: needing to go to the bathroom, being cold, thirsty, eaten too much etc., light If like me you are prone to watch thrillers late at night, you can start to feel you are part of the scene. I also am more likely ...

I never heard of dyspraxia till I was in my 40's it explained a lot of things I find difficult and frustrating. It sounds to me as though your friend, has some need for more control than you do! This is something that I have observed in my life of people getting very frustrated with me. I am on this...

Have you had your eyesight checked for using your eyes at the same time? It was years before I got an optician to pick this up, but if you are not short sited, it is possible that it is not picked up at all. It will not always be picked up in a standard test. There are glasses that can help with thi...

Make notes, even if they are hard to understand afterwards. Or even draw pictures, diagrams or doodle. I was lucky that most of my lectures had slide shows, studying very visual subjects. I learned later, that the physical process of scribing was what mattered, in making notes, not that I could refe...

PS Cluttered.... sometimes the most practical way of dealing with awkward situations like bikini ties, is to take the easy option. Invest in a comfortable swimsuit! If I choose to wear stuff with lots of tiny buttons, it has to be big enough to go over my head, or to get changed well before I need t...

Interesting post.... thanks for your openness. I do agree think we have to be wary of labels, and we can become preoccupied about the diagnosis, so that even common foibles become part of our "condition", I am of an age where the first time dyspraxia was mentioned, (eight years ago and I a...