Dyspraxic Adults

…when you iPhone 3GS has a two inch crack up the back of the plastic casing from dropping it repeated over three years despite having a protective case for it!

That wasn't nessacarily caused by dropping. That plastic had a common fault of splitting around the charger socket port. My 3G evemmtually developed it and I very seldom dropped it.

My 4 has been mostly bullet proof.

It's quite a substantial crack and I do drop it frequently!

When I fall up the stairs
When I'm talking a friend and when I turn round they have disappeared
When I forget to take my medication

oh my god im 16 and i have just realised that someone watches a program with subtitles on like me my family and i just thought i was wierd is this linked into dyspraxia ???:)

When you are getting ready for bed and you get your toothbrush ready to clean your teeth, and as you pick it up, you accidentally knock the glass its stood up in over into the sink. It shatters and when you have picked the glass out of the sink (nearly cutting your finger on the tiny shards of glass in there) you then clean your teeth. Later, once you have finished in the bathroom you then go into your bedroom and stand on the detachable plastic cover for your electric razor and crack it.

When you are cleaning up a broken glass (in this case the same one from the previous post) you inadvertently catch your finger on a corner of the broken glass and badly cut it. It bleeds for ages and you go out to buy plasters. While you are carrying out the transaction, the staff at the pharmacy take pity on you (humorously telling one of their colleagues that they've got a customer who's: "bleeding to death here") and offer to clean and dress it for you.

When having failed to donate blood due to having anemia you become obsessed in regulating your iron levels

You are looking through your contacts list on your touchscreen phone when you accidentally press too hard over it and end up inadvertantly ringing a person you knew at primary school and who you don't speak to normally (the number came from facebook). While this is happening you are panicking so much you can't stop the call and they answer it and you cannot speak because you are too embarrassed

nah katie, my aunt done better than that and she isn't dyspraxic, she went from Birmingham - London - South Wales, as london is kind of on her way (yeah right!!), and about 2am she phoned my grandparents, the last sign she seen is Dover 20 miles!! is she going in the right direction?!!

at least my sense of direction isn't too bad, but usually got the trusty road map in the boot of my car just encase, and the sat nav to tell where I am then can work my route out. as the sat nav tells me like 2 feet from a junction, opps you missed that one now lets try again...opps you missed that one, don't you just love these long drives in the middle of nowhere?!!

Navigation or the lack always makes a good story.

Someone I once knew complained about a set of written directions by a friend were "too specific". I weren't complaining though because when you read something like "pass the TESCOS on the left" and you see a Tesco on your left you know you're probably heading in the correct direction. Just to put into perspective this other guy's attention to navigational preparation his idea of an adequate inter-country list driving directions went something like "Dover, France, Belgium, Hotel" and that was it... No motorway numbers, no nothing.

When you're walking through town and you OH points and says "look at that cute puppy". And you spend about 2 mins looking in every direction other than where he is pointing.

When you are half way down the road and have to turn back to make sure you defo locked the front door.

When you go to the shop to by to kitchen role and milk, and come back with chocolate, a cooked chicken and milkshake.

When you are at the till and scan all your shopping through and pack it, then walk out without paying for it.
(I actually did this, I didn't realise til I got home and wondered where the receipt was. I had to go back and explain that I genuinely didn't realise and was really sorry)

1) When you are doing voluntary work at your old school and you forget you are technically only a visitor and leave your class without your guide by accident.

You know you're dyspraxic when you try to come up with a witty reply to this and get distracted and spend 15mins looking for rizlas and filters you had on your person less than an hour ago.

You know you're dyspraxic when you go travelling and leave your passport and travel visa in an american taxi and dont realise you've lost it until you get to the hotel across in the canadian border (true story) thank god for the british embassy and travel insurance and some patient friends.