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by Andrew_S_Hatton
Wed Jun 15, 2022 9:46 pm
Forum: Getting help & assessment
Topic: How did you obtain professional confirmation of your Dyspraxia
Replies: 5
Views: 4187

Re: How did you obtain professional confirmation of your Dyspraxia

1. When I realised I was not going to get a publicly funded assessment after about two years of attempts I took the advice of the Dyspraxia Foundation's Adult adviser and commissioned a report from a Chartered Psychologist who the DF's adviser personally recommended in 2002. That only had limited va...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Wed Jun 15, 2022 3:06 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Dyspraxia Foundation AGM cancelled for July 2022.
Replies: 1
Views: 678

Dyspraxia Foundation AGM cancelled for July 2022.

Please tell me if I have posted this in the best place to get maximum attention. I am a no longer active member of the DF. See the announcement on their Facebook website. "Birmingham Conference cancelled! It is with enormous regret that the very difficult decision has been made to cancel the Bi...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:23 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: At Last an official report regarding Neurodiversity and the UK Justice System
Replies: 0
Views: 2497

At Last an official report regarding Neurodiversity and the UK Justice System

"I should be delighted that this report has been produced and that it came from the personal intervention of Robert Buckland, the Lord Chancellor - but somehow I am not having been going on about the the business especially since I realised I am dyspraxic in 1999 - Actually really since the beg...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Feb 25, 2020 5:31 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: Driving Test Changes in April to aid people with disabilities
Replies: 0
Views: 8369

Driving Test Changes in April to aid people with disabilities

Maybe a driver who is or has recently learned will do a write up for Dyspraxia and Life magazine and this forum

I passed in 1966 - there was not a seperate theory test then!



https://www.gov.uk/government/news/theo ... april-2020
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Feb 25, 2020 11:01 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Please watch. Opinions appreciated
Replies: 8
Views: 4442

But not quite so small - I'll stop now!

SORRY for the interuption and distraction
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:59 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Please watch. Opinions appreciated
Replies: 8
Views: 4442

TEST

This is what I was trying to post


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by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:51 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hey Guys! Im newbie
Replies: 6
Views: 3568

Re: Hey Guys! Im newbie

Hi Ricardo, good to see this community - i'm a newbie too Hi Andrew, Thanks for your story. I was diagnosed a few years ago whilst studying a masters degree - I was 42. It really hit me hard. I thought maybe that was why I've never found the right person, but reading your story, and looking at my o...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Feb 25, 2020 10:41 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Please watch. Opinions appreciated
Replies: 8
Views: 4442

Re: Please watch. Opinions appreciated

I hope that you are involved with the Dyspraxia and Life Magazine and maybe also a memeber of The dyspraxia Foundation - to be more involved. I mostly stay on the sidelines myself now - but was active at one time. Also remember to to subscribe to messages and and threads to get emails telling you wh...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Sat Feb 22, 2020 10:05 am
Forum: Relationships
Topic: "Does anyone else have a hard time keeping friends?"
Replies: 3
Views: 4372

Re: "Does anyone else have a hard time keeping friends?"

Thanks to Tom and Xenavire for replying. I had not subscribed to this thread - although actually I believed that I had automatically subscribed by replying but that is not the case. To be sure of having any replies emailed I now realise, that I need to scroll to the bottom of my post and ✓. ========...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:09 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hey Guys! Im newbie
Replies: 6
Views: 3568

Re: Hey Guys! Im newbie

Hi Ricardo - thanks for joining - I hope you will want to take part - I have been rather quiet here recently, but I realise such quietness is not good for me. I am seventy-one, live in Essex, England. I realised I was dyspraxic around 1999. Now go out very little and am happy with an online live. I ...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Mon Feb 17, 2020 1:55 pm
Forum: Relationships
Topic: "Does anyone else have a hard time keeping friends?"
Replies: 3
Views: 4372

"Does anyone else have a hard time keeping friends?"

Please excuse me for starting a thread with a topic that will be familiar to many members. This is a question asked in a Facebook Dyspraxia Forum and so far it has attracted a lot of responses. Initially I answered thus: - "I have given up trying." AND I had a response from a different per...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Tue Apr 23, 2019 3:30 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hi!
Replies: 2
Views: 2162

Re: Hi!

Thanks for the post, I also struggle with addictions.

I suspect mental illness can result from trying to fit in with society despite having a hidden neurological disability and that addictive behaviours may also be behaviours that mask neurological disability..

I am dyspraxic and dyslexic.
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: Relationships
Topic: How did you meet your significant other?
Replies: 4
Views: 3748

Re: How did you meet your significant other?

Wish you well with that. I went to University when I was 24 & had been married 3years, the course, pre entry social work training, was demanding because one's understandings of human behaviour were severely tested. I was very glad that I had formed a lifetime partnership before I did that traini...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Mon Apr 22, 2019 9:01 pm
Forum: Relationships
Topic: How did you meet your significant other?
Replies: 4
Views: 3748

Re: How did you meet your significant other?

Wish you well with that. I went to University when I was 24 & had been married 3years, the course, pre entry social work training, was demanding because one's understandings of human behaviour were severely tested. I was very glad that I had formed a lifetime partnership before I did that traini...
by Andrew_S_Hatton
Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:44 pm
Forum: Day-to-day living
Topic: "Being floppy and unstable"
Replies: 2
Views: 4740

"Being floppy and unstable"

I forget about this characteristic - thus described in a "Checklist of dyspraxic symptoms" in the book "Dyspraxia: Dyspraxic Adults Surviving in a Non-Dyspraxic World" (Kindle Location 173)" I was reminded of it going through the book. I first recognised it - though not the ...