You know you're dyspraxic when

[Sallya]

This topic so made me smile but also so made me realised am not alone.

Ok- You know you're dyspraxic when...

You so pleased coz have made cake- taken hours to make, pop it in the oven, leave the kitchen for only a minute, then come back and the cake still on the side. The white plastic weighing scales are happily burning though!!!

You go to the theatre in the centre of Glasgow, go to put your parking ticket in the machine only to realise you have put your library card in there instead. The machine is now jammed up and the queue is getting bigger.When you talk into the intercom to explain to the nightwatchman, he is most unhappy.

On your first ever temp job, in a packaging factory-you have to pack five packets of custard into a box. The packets are coming down the conveyor belt at you and it all gets too quick and you realise you have jammed the line up.The alarm sounds and everyone is sent for a break and is pleased.You are told that it's first day nerves-don't do it again.You get back and what happens!?!.This time, everyone groans!You are not invited for another day's work there the next day!!

[Jpowls]

You know you're dyspraxic when you go to get cash out, put your card and pin, press the amount you want, but walk away forgetting to actually take your cash!!!

I've done this twice, the first time someone behind me shouted me and I got my cash, the second time I was not so lucky!

[Captain_Ludd]

You know you're dyspraxic when you go to get cash out, put your card and pin, press the amount you want, but walk away forgetting to actually take your cash!!!

Glad its not just me thats done that .

[shadowgirl021]

something happens to you for you to go to a public toilets, but before hand you leave your folder on a bin and then go to the toilets, leave your money for the bus on the toilet roll holder thing and then leave the toilets remembering that your folder was on a bin but now its gone and then realising that the only money you had for the bus is stuck in the MacDonald's toilets which you cant get into because you need to pay for something to enter it.

[Tom fod]

You know you're dyspraxic when you go to get cash out, put your card and pin, press the amount you want, but walk away forgetting to actually take your cash!!!

I've done this twice, the first time someone behind me shouted me and I got my cash, the second time I was not so lucky!

I did that someone shouted so I turned round quickly kicking an old lady in the ankle. I then had to apologise while her husband ranted at me. I hadn't even realised I'd kicked her and could really have kicked him!

[Jpowls]

something happens to you for you to go to a public toilets, but before hand you leave your folder on a bin and then go to the toilets, leave your money for the bus on the toilet roll holder thing and then leave the toilets remembering that your folder was on a bin but now its gone and then realising that the only money you had for the bus is stuck in the MacDonald's toilets which you cant get into because you need to pay for something to enter it.

I use MacDonald toilets without buying stuff all the time. I thought it was generally accepted that people do.

[Ldnfinest]

When u are runing late and fall over runing 4 the bus

[shadowgirl021]

Unfortunately not where i live all the One I used, It was in the evening so maybe that made a difference, and there was a security guard who said something about a key, I had to buy something so he could unlock the toilets, which was very annoying

[Jpowls]

When u are runing late and fall over runing 4 the bus

This reminds me of the time when I dropped my mobile down a drain when running for a bus.

[Tim G]

You know you're dyspraxic when

You realise that there is somthing you realy need to talk about to you phyc and organise a apoitment soon but when you get there you have no idea what to say, its a waste of time then a couple of hours later you relaise what the problem was and what you should have said

[Evasura]

you go to neurologist appointment and when talking about your difficulties, you forget to mention that you tend to forget and loose your things...until you loose your home keys again and cannot get into your place until a friend brings you your home keys...Then you have to email your neurologist from an internet cafe about that tiny (tiny?!) issue (while waiting to be able to get to your own flat)

[AlleyCat]

Hi Evasura. I am curious to know what kind of questions the neurologist asked you and how useful you feel the consultation was? I was assessed as having dyspraxia by an occupational psychologist, but have often wondered what is actually going on in my brain and how it compares to the so-called 'norm'. I wouldn't mind having a brain scan if it enabled me to find this out. Is a brain scan something your assessment included or is it something there might be the possibility of having in the future? I am wondering how likely it is that the average GP would refer someone with dyspraxia for one!? I think a lot more research needs to be done to try to find out exactly what is going on in the brains of people with dyspraxia and what could possibly be done to help us.

[Evasura]

AlleyCat,
He asked me about my family background. there are cases of autism and some mental health problems in my family and he asked me more about those, he did some simple coordination and hand dexterity texts and some maths estimation questions (the two last ones is where I did reeeeeally badly and apparently they are the clearest signs of dyspraxia for numbers and mathematical conceptualization), he asked me if I knock things down and made me walk in a straight line and stand on one foot (not very good and in report he says that this indicates visual-spatial dyspraxia). I'm gonna have an MRI scan of the brain and more psychologist appointments (something called neuropsychometry). He also asked me about my social life and my finance and about what other things I find difficult, but I couldn't remember much more. Then, as said here, I emailed him about me forgetting and loosing things, which he included in the report as another evidence of dyspraxia. He was really nice and helped me understand some things. It seems quite a lottery to get the right assistance or not. My previous GP ignored me completely and it has costed me a nearly two years and a private assessment (which I took to my current GP and maybe it helped to get referral with NHS).

[Tim G]

My previous GP ignored me completely and it has costed me a nearly two years and a private assessment (which I took to my current GP and maybe it helped to get referral with NHS).

Unforanlty this is often the case of having a private assisment then taking this to you GP and then there is a chance of getting things sorted.
Unforanlty when I mentioned about getting help for dyspraxia to my phyc at the mental helth clinic I am refered to they said that this is somthing the NHSD can't sort out. - I think it is somthing to do with it being an educational issue so you can only get help easley when your in education etc. However this is compleate rubbish as we all know that dyspraxia not only affects education but pimarley everything else so we should get help under the NHS like others with 'learning difculcities' get help with.

[shadowgirl021]

When your in an interview and you forget the persons name who is interviewing you and you need a question repeating and so soon as it is repeated, you have forgotten again, so you repeat what you have already said.