You know you're dyspraxic when

[littlemissbump14]

...when you manage to make sleeping a dangerous activity!
I broke my hand falling out of bed whilst visiting a friend year before last. (Was this a bunk bed i hear you ask? No, it was a standard single bed!)

You cut everything with scissors as you are less likely to hurt youself that way (seriously they're great in the kitchen!)

You want to excuse yourself from class verytime it gets icy/snowy/frosty/perticularly slippery outside, as you know getting there will be hellish, and it would be safer for everyone if stayed in. Sadly, you study on the scottish coast so this would mean you would very rarely make it out the house!

Your mother buys you entirely plastic crockery when you go to Uni as she kows you'll only drop it...

Your flatmate/best friend buys you a sippy cup/anywayup cup/teacher beaker for your birthday as she is fed up of making you a drink, only for you to knock it over!

You are incredibly proud of yourself for acheiving things the average 5 year old can do. E.G. going on a rope swing and landing again safely (aged 20)

[agsiul]

.....when you're friends buy you a bib because you keep spilling food on yourself
.....when your nickname is Charlie Brown because you need to bite your tongue when doing things with your hands
.....when you spend an entire conference stressing about the speaker leaving her glass of water beside her laptop and walking over and back over her laptop leads.... (obviously didn't pick up much at this conference!)
….when random strangers walk up to you to fix your collar, coat, etc!
…when you have to visually plan your whole route or you’ll end up in the wrong place
….when you forget where you’ve put your dinner and sit on it
….when you’ve forgotten most of your accidents but your friends are still traumatized by them years later
…when a waiter asks you to leave a restaurant because you’ve spilt a huge glass of red wine over a complete stranger
…when your old neighbour calls in to check that you haven’t fallen down the stairs again
…when you ring someone and by the time they’ve answered the phone, all of a few seconds later, you’ve forgotten who you’ve rang and have to ask them who they are
….when you can’t remember what age you are

By the way this was a brilliant idea. I know it's not supposed to be funny but some of them are brilliant.

[Evasura]

oh, how could I forget this one: you're having a drink and chatting to a friend.b You're going to have a sip andf you forget to stop talking whule taking the glass to you mouth, with the obvious result.Maaaaaany times

[agsiul]

I managed to get through a wedding yesterday without spilling anything on anyone, falling over my dress or knocking anyone over. I did spill water all over the table but sure it's see through!

[meow]

I went to a wedding Saturday also and ended up spilling my drink down my brand new dress. Also kept nearly tripping up while dancing. OMG I cannot dance..

[agsiul]

My brother asked me to drag people out on the floor....you must be joking. It was a miracle that I didn't trip over my dress while walking, never mind dancing in it!

[agsiul]

I thought of one that really is stressful: breaking a nail or having to cut my nails.... There used to be an add on TV. I'm shaking here thinking aobut it....where they did a close up on a woman breaking her nail on a tin....the fools started putting it on the radio...God knows how many timesI'd nearly crashed my car trying to switch off the radio when the add came on.

[annie49]

You are taken on an excursion to the Kodak factory and stumble and have to be prevented from falling onto the conveyor belt.that was one of my worst ones.Your daughter tidies you up,whenever you are going out.You cannot eat or drink without the evidence being all over your front.White tee shirts,white anything in fact is out.You are regarded as zany by your friends.

[abby]

you wacth "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em" and think why does that all seem so familiar.

and

when the drill sargeant calls right turn, and you go left, but evryone is so used to you, nobody notices.

and

you have more icepacks than food in the freezer.

and

you go to a friends house, and they have a sippy cup ready for you, and you still manage to spill it.


where did you get the idea for this one from? its kind of like the one on the teens forum, but this one is so much funnier.

[jen d]

you dont recognise your own son when you bump into him on the bus!
This was very embarassing. I got on the bus with a friend and we sat down, she then said int that your son behind us. I turned round to see the grinning face of my 21 year old son saying "hello Mum". The worse thing was that my friend had only met him very briefly on one occasion and yet she saw him and I didnt. However, my son is used to me so was amused but not offended.

[agsiul]

I don't have any problem remembering faces. I have a problem with names. My dad has terrible problems with faces. Wouldn't recognise us out of context or if he wasn't expecting to meet us. Someone once showed him a picture of me when i was in a music group in school and he asked who I was...same thing happened when I was answering questions in his class. He didn't recognise me. A therapist thought that it was weird that I wasn't offended. but wasn't like he was doing it on purpose. He just couldn't help it. Why would I get offended by that.

[lulufairy]

Im laughing so much coz its just so me. The ones about the door frames always doing that best of all ill walk into walls totally sober

[Amy_cockers]

You know you're dyspraxic when you have an idea of what to post here, and totally forget it a minute later.

*Remembers*.... you know you are dyspraxic when someone asks you for directions and you have to lie and say 'i don't live around here sorry', because even though you've lived in the same town for 21 years, you can't for the life of you tell them how to get there.

[Evasura]

when you lose AGAIN one of the globes that you bought yesterday (as the other pair got lost, of course!)

[lulufairy]

[quote="Lithium_joe"]>You say to yourself you're going to do one thing and end up doing another, forgetting the thing you're meant to do before doing something else
Me too