You know you're dyspraxic when

[Osymandus]

When you meet really interesting and exciting people and act like an over excited puppy crossed with a 3 year old child with OCD ., because their amazing and you tell everyone .

And they leave quickly thinking your mad.

[NobodyElseWill]

when you have to use every reminder thing known to man to help you remember stuff. I have my calendar on my phone, ipod touch (linked in with itunes) on my computer and i have diary that I worship on a daily basis and I have a calendar on my yahoo email account. Luckily itunes/ipod touch links the appointments together and did i mention I have my calendar and schedule on my work pc.. Yet i still make the odd blip. What the heck is wrong with my strange brain, i think I may have very very early dementia.

[Lady Fluff]

...when you have to thank the pile of recycling bags for breaking your fall on the pavement, meaning you only have one bloody hand and knee instead of both sides being battered! And I only got these trousers last month, grr! If I'd been running, I wouldn't have minded, but I was just sauntering casually along! Thanks goodness it was 6am and no one was around to see me!

[I<3Pandas]

When you go sumwher youv been lots of tims befor but you still get lostt and forgot why yor ther

[gherkin001]

Im sure we've all done that lol

[Evasura]

well, that happens mainly every day...a few times.
got another one, that's happened the last two weeks:
lost my wallet before hols, so I get my new card, get my new pin number and as it says on the letter: memorize the number (a very easy 1 as two numbers were the same) and destroy th eletter. Then when going to use the card, jumble all the numbers and block the pin. Go back to the bank to get a new pin, receive the new pin. This time write it on my mobile, destroy he number, go to use the card and I HAD COPIED THE NUMBER WRONG!!! so blocked the pin again! two weeks in a row!!! when I told a friend she said that not surprised coming from me. goin back to the bank for the third week ina row How embarrassing!

[Grackle]

You know you're dyspraxic when:
- you don't quite understand what the different smilies mean without explanation (or is that just me?)
- you burn yourself on the oven door while chanting to yourself "don't burn yourself on the oven, don't burn yourself on the oven"
- you don't recognize familiar places any more when the season change (everything looks different when the leaves change colour )
- you lose everything - even things that you're holding

When I was a teenager (quite a long time ago), I was using a curling iron and lost my grip. It was still attached to my hair so it swung from side to side madly. I grabbed for it to and knocked it right into the bridge of my nose

A couple of weeks ago, I was running down the field playing soccer (football for most of you) there was nothing around me (no people, no ball) and suddenly I tripped over nothing and fell face first onto the ground My team were first very alarmed thinking that something had happened like my knee giving out - and then when I explained that I tripped over nothing, they laughed - a lot (good thing that I was laughing too )

Grackle (sighing deeply)

Oh, I think that they should make a special version of this smilie for dyspraxics where it misses the ball and gets hit in the head every time.

[Lady Fluff]

...you get the final submission date for your degree wrong - by a whole year!



I could have sworn all the way through it was 2 years of teaching and two years for my dissertation, but apparently it was onyl one year for the diss. I'm very likely to get a twelve month extension now, but if it had not been for my father's cancer and subsequent passing, I wouldn't have a great excuse - I don't think dyspraxia would get me an extra year. I'm still mortified at the thought of me getting it so wrong!

[Evasura]

s***! sorry to hear, Lady Fluff. I've Been late to exams (my max was 4 minutes late for a final exam), have made hufe mistakes when dating pieces of art (like 2000 years wrong), but that one... Someone could have told you something. That also shows how little people understand dyspraxia. You should have got support for that. I hope you get the extension. Hope also you dad is better :-(

[Evasura]

and...another one. well, not just one, but the big one this week is... my bike starts working funny and the chain gets off. Try to fix it (what in hell was I thinking about when I thought I could fix it???!!!), make it even worse and in between drop my ipod in a puddle, so now, both bike and ipod are not working. Dyspraxia is expensive!

[Grackle]

You consider it a fabulous day when you knock a can of Coke over and it lands the right side up without spilling more than a couple of drops
Grackle

[NobodyElseWill]

I confuse my buspass with my rail card a lot and also confuse it with my debit card as well.

[dyspraxicgirl]

You always have cuts on your legs from shaving! I collect those the way most people collect stamps or bottlecaps!

You know you are dyspraxic when you thought that you would cut your legs as usual while shaving and end up cutting your finger badly... and of course this finger is located on the hand you were using to grasp the razor.

It hurts.

Especially when you had burnt this specific finger while toasting a piece of bread.

[nessmaron]

...when despite living in the same house for 20 years you STILL walk into the doorframe of your bedroom every other day.

[agsiul]

....when a co-worker asks you to pour out a glass of water for her from the jug that is in front of you. And you pick up the jug, turn around with it and say to her that it might be safer if she pours it out herself because you are inclinde to spill things....you turn back to put the jug on the table and hear a sharp intake of breath and when you look back at your co-worker she is completely wet and the jug is half empty