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- Mon Oct 15, 2018 11:39 am
- Forum: Getting help & assessment
- Topic: Lexxic
- Replies: 15
- Views: 9907
Re: Lexxic
I don't think a standard questionnaire is necessarily a bad thing, assuming it is followed up by a one-to-one assessment. I was assessed by Dyspraxia UK and had quite a lot of paperwork to do before meeting the assessor. This was hard going, but it got me thinking about issues that I hadn't realised...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:46 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello everyone I'm new to the group
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2575
Re: Hello everyone I'm new to the group
That's a tight band - are you the bassist?
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- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:25 pm
- Forum: Work
- Topic: Has anyone with dyspraxia passed first aid?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10036
Re: Has anyone with dyspraxia passed first aid?
An excellent question. I've done (and passed) more First Aid courses than I can recall, but have never had to give major First Aid in a real situation and always feel very uncertain that I would cope with the processing required to deal, say, with a multi-casualty incident. Has anyone here done so, ...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:21 pm
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: Do you become less dyspraxic the older you get?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4354
Re: Do you become less dyspraxic the older you get?
In a word, no. But we do develop coping strategies as we get older, and our improved self-knowledge helps us to anticipate what we are likely to do in a given situation. All this coping is increasingly tiring and I really have to work hard to try and pace myself, which as an active person who loves ...
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 12:16 pm
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: Views of and experiences with the Dyspraxia Foundation
- Replies: 18
- Views: 12322
Re: Views of and experiences with the Dyspraxia Foundation
I have also messaged the DF about the forum in the past in the hope it could be flagged to their membership and would hopefully thus increase participation and posts here. To be fair to the Dyspraxia Foundation, when I joined they sent me a list of useful web links, one of which was to this forum. ...
- Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:22 am
- Forum: Day-to-day living
- Topic: Trying to do too much
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3731
Trying to do too much
Hello everybody and sorry for a long radio silence. I've missed this forum but as the post title may hint at, have been spinning too many plates. Under the "Learning, thought and memory" heading, the Dyspraxia Foundation list of adult symptoms contains the following: "May do only one ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2018 5:48 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Dyspraxia East Scotland
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4711
Re: Dyspraxia East Scotland
No bother, philm has been keeping me posted :-)
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- Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:56 am
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: Looking for advice to improve balance and co-ordination.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1724
Re: Looking for advice to improve balance and co-ordination.
Hi thisismewithamask, Do you enjoy any sort of ball game at all? I know many dyspraxics are not good at these, dislike them and avoid them at all costs. But equally, if you are partial to ball games, even if not much good at them, doing a lot them is a great way of improving balance and co-ordinatio...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:48 am
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: This place seems dead
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2456
Re: This place seems dead
Hi Firemonkey, To be fair, I think the forum is more lively now than it was in October / November that seemed a very quiet time indeed. I would say - don't get disheartened if one of your posts doesn't get a response for a while. As someone else said, we can be quite a shy / reticent bunch, and also...
- Sat Jan 06, 2018 10:27 am
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: What do non-dyspraxic people think about the dyspraxic ?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4443
Re: What do non-dyspraxic people think about the dyspraxic ?
Hi ákveðni, I think the answer depends on a number of things. Age for a start. Those under 25 - or perhaps 30 - seem to be more educated about dyspraxia and often nod knowingly when I tell them I'm on the spectrum. If older than this, I'm often met with a blank stare and, as I'm sure you know, it's ...
- Sat Dec 02, 2017 12:46 pm
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: I am a musician!!!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3161
Re: I am a musician!!!
Why if I have dyspraxia (and a specialist just suggested I do) do I have good fine motor skills and was I for a long time a professional musician? (Cello). I find this to be a very interesting post. I also am a musician though scarcely professional. My fine motor co-ordination is poor - bottom 7% f...
- Fri Dec 01, 2017 5:20 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Dyspraxia East Scotland
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4711
Re: Dyspraxia East Scotland
Interesting. Will you go as far north as Inverness and beyond?
- Thu Nov 23, 2017 5:57 pm
- Forum: Day-to-day living
- Topic: Answering the phone?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 11254
Re: Answering the phone?
I agree with most of the above - my last (nearly) full-time job as an employee was in a small open-plan office where 3 - 4 people could be on the phone at the same time - a dyspraxic's nightmare! I also have problems remembering to phone people, related to short-term memory I think (and perhaps a bi...
- Sun Nov 19, 2017 6:20 pm
- Forum: Relationships
- Topic: Experiencing frustration
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5208
Re: Experiencing frustration
I sometimes feel like when I mention my learning disability as a reason for doing certain things that people think I'm either making it up or trying to use it as a trump card. This is causing me frustration because all I'm asking is that people understand that I'm much more susceptible to make mist...
- Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:06 pm
- Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
- Topic: Chris Packhan docunentary Aspergers and me
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2231
Re: Chris Packhan docunentary Aspergers and me
Thank you so much Tom for flagging this up - I've just watched it on iPlayer. I actually see very little TV and knew vaguely who Chris Packham is and that he's a wildlife enthusiast, but nothing about his autism, and this was for me a fascinating and touching film. As a self-diagnosed borderline asp...