Hi,
I'm female, 23, have an autism spectrum diagnosis since about 4 years. I have a mild to medium amount of dyspraxia accompanying that. Gotta admit I never paid it much mind, I was just the clumsy, unathletic kid. Always slow and with somewhat bad fine motor skills. But in the last years I've been noticing a bit more how my dyspraxia affects my life. For example I just have a low muscle tone and I cannot stand well for a longer time. I always want to sit or lie down. I love to just sit or lie on the floor for example rather then on a chair or couch, not sure why. I also seem to need more sleep than most people and am often tired. I'm not sure if those are even connected to dyspraxia but I guess I'm gonna find out here.
Lately the worst part has been that I love to sing - and I am kind of good, but I tend to sing quiet and breathy. I find it very hard to assume the body tension required to produce a loud strong sound. Me and my teacher have been working on that for a year now and it does get better but quite slowly. That has been leading to some frequent frustration.
Anyway, looking forward to reading stuff here!
Hi, dyspraxic autist here
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Re: Hi, dyspraxic autist here
Hi Sanctus and welcome
It's hard to explain since people are affected in a variety of ways and to different degrees and have a variety of coping mechanisms which makes comparing each other difficult, if not impossible.
I guess the one thing we can say with a degree of uniformity is that we tend to have to put more effort into things that many take for granted and this is often tiring and frustrating as achieving the desired result can take longer and we may need to find an alternative way more suited to ourselves. Doing it our way can be a minefield as some people will insist or try to tell us we're doing it all wrong which can turn out to be an unhelpful distraction, even if meant well.
It's hard to explain since people are affected in a variety of ways and to different degrees and have a variety of coping mechanisms which makes comparing each other difficult, if not impossible.
I guess the one thing we can say with a degree of uniformity is that we tend to have to put more effort into things that many take for granted and this is often tiring and frustrating as achieving the desired result can take longer and we may need to find an alternative way more suited to ourselves. Doing it our way can be a minefield as some people will insist or try to tell us we're doing it all wrong which can turn out to be an unhelpful distraction, even if meant well.
Tom
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With a foot full of bullets I tried to run faster but I just hobbled on to the next disaster.
(from Peter and the Test Tube Babies, Foot Full of Bullets)