Dyspraxic Adults

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https://testmybrain.org/

Have tweeted forum link.

In Wiltshire.

Tom is trying to promote the forum on facebook . As for the many views to responses,that's common for forums generally.

Tom fod wrote: I'm a bit wary of pull tab cans as have managed to twist and break off the pull tab before now.

Had that quite a few times. Then there's the fact it can be hard to pull the tab!

Correct that managed to work it out,but will I remember next time? Is that a dyspraxic thing I wonder-variable ability to do a task?


" Variable performance- better at a task one day, poorer the next," http://www.snagroup.ie/index.php/dys2
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The height of dyspraxic frustration-fancying a tin of rice pudding and you can't work out how to use the can opener !

I have never considered myself as having ADHD but mild ADD does seem to fit. To some extent all of ASD,dysgraphia,dyspraxia and NVLD fits.

#dyspraxia Dyspraxia -are we getting the full picture? I don't know about other countries but in the UK the emphasis seems to be strongly on problems with physical coordination to the relative neglect of other aspects. This seems to be especially relevant to adults with dyspraxia. Whereas things lik...

I agree the two conditions(Dyspraxia and ADD/ADHD) are not identical. However, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that it's reckoned that c50%of people with dyspraxia also have some level of ADHD. https://www.apraxia-kids.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/richardson.pdf See ADHD. Apparently the inattent...

It was just on the basis of what was said on an NLD and neurodivergence facebook group(inc dyspraxia) . That people had found what gets called dyspraxia in the UK often fits with people getting dxed as NLD in Canada/USA. It is possible that they are comorbid and there are different preferences as to...

For same set of symptoms in UK likely dx= dyspraxia? In Canada/USA likely dx= n(v)ld?

I am a messy eater. I don't know whether this relates to gross motor skills or not.

Whilst accepting that times were less enlightened back in the early 60s in terms of knowledge and understanding about such things quite a lot of progress has been made in the following 50+ years. The trouble is the psychiatric profession makes judgements and then is incapable of stepping outside its...

Flashback to the early 60s. My first school was observant enough to recommend I was taken to see someone albeit it was thought it might be what is now called cerebral palsy. Autism was a narrow diagnosis . NVLD unheard of. Dyspraxia ,or whatever it was called then , far less well known. With the ini...