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- 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...
- 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).
- 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...
- 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 ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
What so there's a "Gay" way to sit now? Some peoples power to jump to conclusions still amazes and saddens me.Willr0490 wrote: a group of total strangers started asking me whether I was gay owing to how I was sitting.
- 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.
I also find it disorienting when your standing dead still and moving anyway.
- 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.
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.
- 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.
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.
- 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 .
But it can be so embarrassing and annoying at times .
- 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.
- 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.