Things that you CAN do despite being dyspraxic

[Lady Fluff]

I thought it would be nice to focus on the positive things that you can do, things that you may not expect to be able to do due to your dyspraxia but can anyway! Sometimes it is nice to boast about your achievements to give yourself a bit of a boost when you're feeling down

* I can cross stitch - I can follow the pattern, sew neatly and do it pretty quickly. I am currently two thirds of the way through a complicated fairy design

* I can type quickly (if not always accurately!) at about 50 words per minute (though I do love being able to programme the autocorrect feature on MS Word for my common mistypes!)

* I have learnt to throw and catch thanks to my work colleagues and an assortment of soft balls getting hurled round the office several times a day. I am now, apparently, bordering on "lethal" They've now found me a large wooden ruler and I'm learning to bat now as well, though some are slightly fearful of me taking up this task!

Do share yours - it's nice to give hope to the rest of us!

[Evasura]

I like that!I can do crochet. I made my own bed cover and it turned out quite nice. I can also cook quite well. Thiugh the process is a bit messy and with some accidents, but when I follow recipes from books the results is normally quite nice (after everyone has put salt as I always forget to add salt. But better than gettting it salty, isnt it?)

[Captain_Ludd]

I'd never thought about it before but I can actually type pretty quick too, kinda weird considering how bad I am at other fiddly things.

[Osymandus]

I can also type quick as well , oddly also v good at martial arts and reading body movement (sadly not body language as i thought).

Computer nerd as well

[whizzpopbang10]

i can do quite a lot i have taught myself to play the drums ( over many years!!!!!) i can cook pretty well and am currently doing a dyspraxic cooking guide for the dyspraxic teens forum and i also do a martial art called muay thai which i very fun and is really helping my balance (although the spinning moves are kind of hard as i keep falling over ) and i can ride a bike well

cheers

whizz

[Evasura]

* I can type quickly (if not always accurately!) at about 50 words per minute (though I do love being able to programme the autocorrect feature on MS Word for my common mistypes!)

Same here. Can type quite quickly (faster than handwriting, that's why I always type minutes of meetings during the meetings), though then I had to go back to correct mistypes.

[Evasura]

really don't know how to quote just a part of a message. Was trying to quote art of Lady luff's in that one

[SirDaveofDanger]

*I can work stupidly long hours with clients who have learning disabilities and deal with the **** that senior management decides to land on me throughout the day.*

*I can make my housemates laugh and joke along with them (particular one of their missus' who keeps threatening to rape/kill each of us lol)*

*I can cook for up to 9 (most I have cooked for at the moment) including Sunday Roast's (what I class as the most difficult meal to cook)*

*I have survived for nearly 2 years living on my own, including sorting out my move to my current accomodation on my own.*

[Starduster]

I get along well with kids and animals and I'm patient with people who are genuinely having difficulties.

I can dance very well. (Not choreographed dance)

I'm a good martial artist.

Oddly, I've very good reflexes which is handy. I do knock things over but I can catch them quickly. Something moves, I react like lightning. Like a few weeks ago when I was trying to stuff my luggage in a full Easyjet flight, (why do people stuff their jackets into overhead bins wasting valuable luggage space? And why don't they stack things properly? GRR), someone had carelessly left their bag in some odd position in the luggage rack so when I tried to put in my suitcase, it fell out but I caught it instantly with my hand before it fell down WHILE still holding my suitcase at an awkward angle with my other hand.. I'm not ashamed to say it, I'm a master.

I can cook and I'm a creative cook.

I've a good sense of smell when I don't have a blocked nose and can distinguish ingredients.

I can tell you the capital cities of most countries. The Pacific islands always get me, if it weren't for them...

[Grackle]

I can organize other people and myself

I'm patient, compassionate and kind

I can cook - as long as I have recipes and measuring cups and spoons

I can make a killer outline for an essay or paper - and write the actual essay or paper

I'm pretty good at soccer (football) in my old lady league (not really so old, 35+)

I'm good at solving problems or conflicts in ways that didn't occur to anyone else

I can garden and take photographs of the birds and critters that come to visit

I have a great sense of humour about my own dropping, breaking, tripping, getting lost life

Grackle

[dyspraxicgirl]

I could ride a bicycle. No I have not done that in years so I think I will have to learn how to do it again. But I am quite proud of the fact that it's one of the rare things I have learned easily.

I was also an early walker though I have a strange gait and a tendency to fall.

I can also make scoubidous. I am very patient for that. I took me some months to learn how to do them but I am still very good at it, thanks to my father (he also taught me an easy way to tie my shoelaces).

[sanabitur_anima]

Yeah, I tried to learn to do scoubidous but it was too hard.

[dyspraxicgirl]

My family is always teasing me because I'm still so poor with shoelaces but can do scoubidous.

Unfortunately this is also why they have spent years telling me that I was lazy and stubborn and that they hated that I was so naughty. You know, the traditional "stop acting as if you were stupid I know you're intelligent !".

[Osymandus]

My family is always teasing me because I'm still so poor with shoelaces but can do scoubidous.

Unfortunately this is also why they have spent years telling me that I was lazy and stubborn and that they hated that I was so naughty. You know, the traditional "stop acting as if you were stupid I know you're intelligent !".

That is so a projection from them its unbelievable . Brings back memories of school sigh

[agsiul]

I've travelled round the world on my own.

I got a degree and postgrad

I've written two books

I can teach children with learning difficulties

I've lived and worked in other countries

I can set dance

I can play trad music & one of my favourites I can remember the running orders of the tracks on a CD even if I haven't listen to it in 10 years.

I can't cook mind!