I am a musician!!!

[Mona79]

Why if I have dyspraxia (and a specialist just suggested I do) do I have good fine motor skills and was I for a long time a professional musician? (Cello).

All I find is the following:

I can NOT have noise around me when I am conversing and can't cope with interruptions. I can not read if there is anything in the background.

I have sensory issues. I hate scratchy clothes and have cut off all my labels. I live in dresses.

I see A the beginning in a journey and C the end (destination) but not the part in the middle (B).

I have always said that I wouldn't know if I were upside down. I maintain that belief.

I can not copy sequences in the gym. I see what is being done, intellectually, but I can not translate it to myself. I feel my brain literally freeze. It has to be slowed down.

I used to be really clumsy but taught myself to pay SO much attention that I break nothing these days.

I once knocked myself out on a lacrosse pitch as I tripped over my foot on the ground and it was frozen...ow!

I can not follow too many instructions at once and instinctively if a group of people ask me to join in a game I will say no as I know I won't get it. It makes me sad but I've never questioned it. Not until now...

And lastly, I sometimes know how much I have to do and get paralysed by it. I miss things as I had loads of time and then didn't get ready in that time!

My son has Aspergers syndrome...which is related to all this I suppose.

[Tom fod]

Not everyone ticks all the boxes and some may have pushed on despite a perhaps unorthadox aporoach. We can still achieve a high level of ability in pursuits you'd expect we'd want to avoid like the plague. Determination is quite often one of our strnghths. We need it!

We've had or have wrestlers Tree Surgeons muscicians doctors, lab technicians, watresses/waiters and more. grace these pages.We might be clumsy and disorganised but many of us have some in-built awesomeness that does show through when we're in the zone.

[Mona79]

That's interesting thank you because I imagined there would not be such a collection of careers with dyspraxia. I'm feeling more positive and normal again. Oh and I have always been VERY determined. It's got me further than skill.

[Dan]

I posted this in a similar thread, but I am also a musician (piano), and whilst I am guessing Dyspraxia does affect my ability to play, I can play fairly well. I used to be a lot better though.

Here is something I wrote, if you are interested. It is quite simple, but there we are.
https://m.soundcloud.com/mikehawkbiscuit/change-wav

[otis_b_flywheel]

Why if I have dyspraxia (and a specialist just suggested I do) do I have good fine motor skills and was I for a long time a professional musician? (Cello).

I find this to be a very interesting post. I also am a musician though scarcely professional. My fine motor co-ordination is poor - bottom 7% for my age group - yet I play classical guitar (among other easier instruments) that makes huge demands on fine motor skills. I'm just emerging from a long period of despair with this instrument, and at last find I'm making progress again, focussing my practice on difficult passages and repeating them again and again, trying to get them into my muscle memory. I also - in the context of repeated nagging from my teacher, who is cantankerous though likeable - am beginning to succeed in producing a pleasanter sound. Which is all a long-winded way of supporting what Tom has said - we are a diverse bunch, many of whom are extremely determined.

The things you struggle with look remarkably similar to mine - especially the last one about knowing you have a lot to do and being paralysed by the thought of that. I always take far too much on - for myself and others - that makes the situation a whole lot worse.

Regards

[Dan]

Why if I have dyspraxia (and a specialist just suggested I do) do I have good fine motor skills and was I for a long time a professional musician? (Cello).

I find this to be a very interesting post. I also am a musician though scarcely professional. My fine motor co-ordination is poor - bottom 7% for my age group - yet I play classical guitar (among other easier instruments) that makes huge demands on fine motor skills. I'm just emerging from a long period of despair with this instrument, and at last find I'm making progress again, focussing my practice on difficult passages and repeating them again and again, trying to get them into my muscle memory. I also - in the context of repeated nagging from my teacher, who is cantankerous though likeable - am beginning to succeed in producing a pleasanter sound. Which is all a long-winded way of supporting what Tom has said - we are a diverse bunch, many of whom are extremely determined.

The things you struggle with look remarkably similar to mine - especially the last one about knowing you have a lot to do and being paralysed by the thought of that. I always take far too much on - for myself and others - that makes the situation a whole lot worse.

Regards

My teacher was always like "DAN, DYNAMICS!" I got it in the end, and I can produce a good sound and improvise well these days. It is interesting to see how many of us are musicians. I always thought I was odd for it, considering that I can play piano well but my writing is awful!