Dyspraxic Adults

I'm a student nurse, it can be hugely frustrating and i have had a lot of stumbling blocks along the way. The type of environment i work in can help or hinder my dyspraxia.

I hope when i qualify i can work in elderly care, as that seems to be well suited to my needs, it's not too specialised that i feel out of my depth, but at the same time, due to their decreasing independence, there's a lot of hands on care involved.

Also i found that i met some brilliant nurses in that area. Elderly care isn't often a popular choice, so the nurses that do work there, really are passionate about what they do.

I work as a application support analyst in a university previously i worked in finance in a college. Its not going aswell as I would have hoped only been here 3 months and on a years contract with the potential of becoming permanent could be busier I find i perform better when busier with my dyspraxic tendencies. But its a good enviroment to work in.

I work as a passenger assistant, transporting children to special needs schools. I also work as a support worker for adults that may have special health needs, require 24/7 care and have learning disabilities.

I work for Mencap in Leeds as an Admin Support for the Employ Me programme. As the name suggests, Employ Me finds jobs for people with a learning disability. I'm comfortable with most of my tasks; indeed, daft as it sounds, my dyspraxia gives me a problem when it comes to menial jobs. I also struggle when there are too many people in the office and too much noise. Also there are issues with travel. I like routine in my job, although not too much!

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I work for the NHS 111 service as a health advisor. Been doing it for 6 years now although I've only work part-time hours for half of that as I become accustomed to living on a tight budget.

It really pisses me off the amount of folk that ring in with minor ailments, who think that they are at death's door!

I'm training as a horticulturalist with going into botany or taxonomy as my long term ambition.

I'm a bus driver. Originally I was full-time, but now I work part-time and run my own computer/IT business part-time too.

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I work as an administrator in a beauty salon. It's one of the few jobs I have that isn't too affected by my illness. But I thought I`d cope worse at first=) Overall, if you control yourself and keep notes (which I do), it's not that difficult. I wish you success in your career, if you have the desire to do nursing, why not? I know a great center https://www.thekey.com/learning-center/ ... h-dementia find out about job openings there. A caregiver job isn`t suitable for everyone, I`m sure that there`re not so many people with a medical background who want to dedicate themselves to this work. So, try it!

What are your thoughts on Dyspraxia being linked directly to head injuries and brain damage?

I'm a graphic designer at a local authority. We started working from home at the beginning of the pandemic and it suits me really well. As a whole I love my job as I get to be creative and work on lots of interesting projects, but the bits I struggle with are:

• when the client expects me to type things up, as although I can type perfectly fine, I struggle with reading something and typing those exact words

• dialling phone numbers, although this is less of an issue with new technologies

• early mornings – I get up early, but I don't have enough focus to start work until around 9.30am. We have flexible working hours, which is great.

• punctuality – when we were office-based I'd be late regularly because I'd miss the bus or it wouldn't arrive (I can't drive)

• time management to a certain degree, but as a lot of my work is deadline-based we have a schedule which helps a lot

• when I'm in the office I struggle with getting around the building as I don't know left from right and can't follow directions. I end up aimlessly wandering around the wrong floor!

• particular admin tasks that involve copying or remembering job numbers

• technical aspects of the job, like when laying out artwork that needs folding, which is the front and back. I make mistakes sometimes but I work around this by digging out similar layouts and using those as templates.

• change! It takes me a bit longer to adapt to new environments, processes or software than it would other people.

I don't have a Dyspraxia diagnosis (I'm being assessed for autism) but my colleagues are aware that I struggle with certain tasks and they're really supportive. So if I need to go to a certain part of the building, quite often someone will just walk me there without me having to ask

There have only been a few instances where my limitations haven't been taken into account and I've been pushed to do things I'm just not capable of doing. I won't go into detail but these things can really knock my self-esteem and I've even considered resigning because I felt like I was no longer a fit for the job.

I'm an employability coach for those with learning difficulties. Nearly all of our team have their own learning/processing difficulties.
My previous teaching job in a special school was a lot less supportive! - They didn't even know what dyspraxia was.

I work in a warehouse currently. I was told by my parents that I had dyspraxia and it always made complete sense because I do display all the symptoms and makes sense why I've always had trouble in organising my life and had to always develop strategies to help me. It was only apparent to me when I was told by work I would have to pass reach truck training in order to keep my job that I went back to my doctor to get paperwork on my dyspraxia only to find I'd never been officially diagnosed. Only thing I have is a physiotherapy from when I was 9 years old stating that my gross and fine motor skills, co ordination were well below average that 99% would have scored higher than me. Also that I have reduced core stability, spacial awareness, body awareness, ability to judge timing and grade force, bad balance. It's stressed me out so much because I went through all the training and did the test but failed after only completing 10% of the test. I tried but I couldn't do it with so many steps, different levers, steering the wrong way, bad judgement when trying to work out if the forks were tilted or not (they were, I thought they were straight) and generally trying to co ordinate my movements and remembering the order of which levers to use for what and when and doing this whilst having a pallet high up in the air trying not to cause a safety incident knowing that I could easily **** it up I might move the wrong lever because I mix them up. Now I've been referred to occupation health and see where I go from there but I'm worried because I've never had an official dygonosis but my parents always told me I had dyspraxia and I show all the symptoms but I heard it's much harder to get diagnosed as an adult without paying for it privately.