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by Captain_Ludd
Wed Sep 11, 2013 6:22 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Any tips for winding down after work?
Replies: 7
Views: 3646

Any tips for winding down after work?

Hi all, Not sure whether to put this here or under "Work" but here goes. I started a new job a few weeks ago and I'm finding it very mentally taxing at the end of the day (especially if I've had a bad day like today) I find my head is racing with a thousand and one things at night and I th...
by Captain_Ludd
Wed Sep 11, 2013 6:09 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: switching from tasks - a sign of distraction
Replies: 1
Views: 1095

Re: switching from tasks - a sign of distraction

Yup i'm the same i find if I'm stressed or in a rush its worse, I have t try to calm down and take things more slowly (often easier said than done).
by Captain_Ludd
Sun Aug 25, 2013 3:29 pm
Forum: Studying
Topic: Last chance of uni
Replies: 5
Views: 4465

Re: Last chance of uni

Hi Kat, I had a similar thing when I had to take engineering maths, do you have any friends in class that are good at maths that could help you through? This is what I did I wouldn't have got through otherwise. Also at my uni there is a Maths support drop in center that you can go and ask for help f...
by Captain_Ludd
Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:55 pm
Forum: Work
Topic: Struggling with new job.
Replies: 4
Views: 3318

Re: Struggling with new job.

Hi all, First up thanks for the votes of confidence, Its much appreciated. May be I'am being a little hard on my self I am only in my third week straight out of uni coding in a language I'm not too familiar with using tools that are completely new to me. I think Tom is right in that there is a kind ...
by Captain_Ludd
Sun Aug 25, 2013 2:08 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Newbie question
Replies: 5
Views: 1958

Re: Newbie question

As the others have mentioned because Dyspraxia is a complex neurological condition it can present it self as a wide combination of symptoms that are never the same from person to person. Broadly speaking most dyspraxics do have some level of problems with co-ordination but there are no hard and fast...
by Captain_Ludd
Mon Aug 19, 2013 6:20 pm
Forum: Work
Topic: Struggling with new job.
Replies: 4
Views: 3318

Struggling with new job.

Hi All, I recently got my degree in software engineering and out of the blue via a friend that works at a software development company I was asked to go and have a chat about a position they had going. Basically they had been looking for some experienced in a set of programming languages and had not...
by Captain_Ludd
Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:52 pm
Forum: Work
Topic: delivering yellow pages
Replies: 3
Views: 2098

Re: delivering yellow pages

Yeah I don't think that dyspraxia , I think that's just the effects just bloody hard work, well done I'm not sure I would have manged.
by Captain_Ludd
Sat Aug 03, 2013 5:48 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Exploding brain
Replies: 1
Views: 1109

Re: Exploding brain

Oh yes I know that feeling all to well, try just sitting down, closing your eyes and taking a few deep breaths for a bit always helps me.
by Captain_Ludd
Tue Jul 23, 2013 7:04 am
Forum: Relationships
Topic: Do any other Dyspraxics get mistaken for Gay?
Replies: 31
Views: 30688

Re: Do any other Dyspraxics get mistaken for Gay?

Willr0490 wrote: a group of total strangers started asking me whether I was gay owing to how I was sitting.
What so there's a "Gay" way to sit now? Some peoples power to jump to conclusions still amazes and saddens me.
by Captain_Ludd
Tue Jul 23, 2013 6:58 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: escalters
Replies: 7
Views: 3412

Re: escalters

Yup, I hate putting my feet on the first and last steps somehow always feels like the damn thing is going to grab me and try to swallow me !
I also find it disorienting when your standing dead still and moving anyway.
by Captain_Ludd
Tue Jul 16, 2013 7:00 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Is my dispraxia getting worse
Replies: 9
Views: 4044

Re: Is my dispraxia getting worse

As far as I Know Dyspraxia is not a degenerative condition.
Having said this from personal experience I know its effects can be made much worse by other factors like tiredness and stress and also dehydration.
by Captain_Ludd
Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:37 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Mental "blackouts"
Replies: 16
Views: 6359

Re: Mental "blackouts"

Thinking about it I tend to find I have a lot of the "blackouts" when I'm trying to deal with someone is talking at me not to me.
Its almost as if in an attempt to retain whats being blasted at me my brain has to temporarily forget stuff its known for years.
by Captain_Ludd
Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:01 am
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Mental "blackouts"
Replies: 16
Views: 6359

Re: Mental "blackouts"

Yeah I get this quite often, in my case I think its nerves it also tends to be worse if I haven't slept well.
But it can be so embarrassing and annoying at times ](*,) .
by Captain_Ludd
Tue Jul 02, 2013 5:15 pm
Forum: Dyspraxia Chat
Topic: Jumping
Replies: 9
Views: 4141

Re: Jumping

Fractured a rib on a trampoline once any form of voluntary jumping or bouncing well and truly out of the question since then.
by Captain_Ludd
Sat Jun 22, 2013 5:10 pm
Forum: Transport
Topic: really dislike busses when they are busy
Replies: 11
Views: 9338

Re: really dislike busses when they are busy

Yup I hate buses to which why I will always try to take the train even if it means transferring or a long walk.