Conundrum...

[zephyr]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new here and really bad at "introduction" posts so thought I'd give it a miss and jump straight in at the deep end so to speak...

I originally started looking into dyspraxia because my little boy's teachers at pre-school have shown concern over some of his behaviours and want to get the inclusion team involved. Neither of us are experts, but when I mentioned the word 'dyspraxia' to his teacher, her eyes lit up as if I'd read her mind... he displays a lot of the symptoms, but this is an adults board so I will try not to talk about that too much.. what also has had me thinking is that quite a few people have mentioned that dyspraxia can be genetic...

So I looked up the symptoms on a website that had different sections for children, teenagers and adults... looking at my life in hindsight I displayed a lot of the symptoms in childhood and my teenager years... but in my adult years, not quite as many... I was an incredibly clumsy child, always spilling my drinks and falling over... I had severe 'social' issues and god awful handwriting but I was very bright at the same time. As I've grown up (without ever hearing the word dyspraxia) I've learnt to control my handwriting, avoid any physical situations that might cause me problems and have learnt to adapt to social situations that make me uncomfortable.. I have lots of little things I do that pretty much allow me to function.

As of yet I've not even thought about diagnosis, etc..

What I'm wondering is, if for arguments sake I do have dyspraxia... have I (by not ever knowing it) managed to adapt to life with it.. and is it better for me to carry on as I am or to stop and address the problem?? I am at university at the moment at the age of 26 after struggling so much at college I am finding it easier now.. my end goal is to be a qualified secondary school teacher.. but I'm worrying that my 'problems' may hinder that and that I would be stupid not to look into things with dyspraxia and take advantage of any extra support available..

I really appreciate any help/advice anyone can give me and thank you so much for listening

[Tim G]

Well about your childs issues - I think the best idea would be to look into it further - check out the dyspraxia foundation for more info http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/s ... mptoms.php. Also talk to the teachers at the school etc and also look into a digignosis and extra help where required etc.
As you seam to be affected by simmler issues i am sure you can understand what is going on with him so thats verry good.

As for yourself I think the best thing to do is to analise things more and consider a dyspraxia test by a educational phyc - if you are digignosed with dyspraxia or simmler then you can seek help a lot more easley.

Feel free to browse and post on the forum - there is lots of usefull infomation on hear.