Dyspraxic Adults

Using cognifit brain training. Out of 800.

Anyone else have problems using a keyboard on a smartphone? I don't know whether it's the fact my fingers are fat and the keyboard so small/lack of manual dexterity but I keep pressing wrong keys. Then there is the whole issue of swiping to use the delete button or anything else on the smartphone wh...

I think you have to be careful here as we rarely if ever fit a stereotypical model of what someone with dyspraxia (and /or X other near diverse condition) should be like, can/can't do etc. Maybe your spatial perception is one of the (possibly many) exceptions to the rule, or you have managed to dev...

https://www.cognifit.com/cognitive-assessment/cognitive-test https://www.cognifit.com/science/cognitive-skills/spatial-perception I was surprised at my spatial perception score of 608/800 which is a high score. In reality I have a poor sense of direction. Also I have always been poorly coordinated. ...

From my promethease report rs4680(A;A) Magnitude: 2.5 Frequency: 24.8% Repute:Good References:272 (worrier) advantage in memory and attention tasks Little or no response to modafinil. You are more difficult to hypnotise. Placebo is more effective http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/why-can-so...

Tom. I've got one of those big bags of frozen veg. My issue is cooking the frozen veg and microwave rice together. I don't fancy juggling electric ring,oven and microwave. I would prefer to use the microwave for both rice and veg but not sure how to do them together.

Chopping and peeling veg is a major problem for me. I have those pasta in sauce or microwave rice rather than potatoes. I hardly ever have veg as balancing cooking the frozen veg and the pasta/rice just seems too difficult.

How do you cope with the ice that invariably comes after the snow? I had some grips to put on my shoes to stop me falling over but now have new shoes that the grips wouldn't fit. As it is I can't find the grips after I moved anyway . Without grips I find it very hard to keep my balance .

Further to this question. Do you find the more anxious and self conscious you are the worse it is?

I don't get dizzy , but my balance leaves a lot to be desired.

I did feel more comfortable doing a Likert scale online survey.

In a mental health setting-yes, but never for dyspraxia or any other form of neurodivergence . They weren't much help.

Format: Abstract Send to Dev Psychopathol. 2015 Nov;27(4 Pt 1):1323-30. doi: 10.1017/S0954579414001436. Childhood dyspraxia predicts adult-onset nonaffective-psychosis-spectrum disorder. Schiffman J1, Mittal V2, Kline E1, Mortensen EL3, Michelsen N3, Ekstrøm M4, Millman ZB1, Mednick SA4, Sørensen HJ...

I dislike chopping and peeling. Years ago when I was a psychiatric inpatient I was put on a cookery group. I got chucked off for supposedly being bolshy. The reason I was taking ages to peel potatoes and not doing a good job of it.It was a task I really struggled with. OT staff may be more clued up ...

Re daily life skills: How are you at cooking? I’m very much a chuck it all in one frying pan/wok/casserole dish/saucepan merchant. Too many instructions and timings and I can get thrown. Another big problem organising myself to prepare a menu plan and buy the ingredients.