Dyspraxic Adults

hi people, this may sound daft but I like the simple things, I like to wrap an extremely tactile blanket round me, just for the softness, I like to run in the rain and have a laugh, I'm always mentioning at college, no one seems to notice, but how can break, or dinnertime finish exactly when the next lesson starts, how do they work these things out, surely if dinner time finished at 1pm, then surely lessons should start at 1.05pm, but who knows eh?

Hello...

I was just flicking round this forum to see if there was anything that rang true and I came to this...mainly because of the discussion about York. I used to work in the Shambles and I felt privileged every time I opened or closed the shutters.

I also find I notice lots of stuff, because I can't concentrate because of all the interesting details I bump into everyone, 'specially somewhere packed like the Shambles. Feel like I should be wearing a Tshirt saying 'sorry'.

I like the sound of silence and the sound of waves lapping against the shore. Id love to live near a beach or on a farm, as I also animals

I think maybe music with me. people go on about there specftic genre. i honestly dont think i have one. i not just one of theses people who dont really like music and say anything but with me it is anything but i do love music. I mainly look in all music. a dark tone too it or a ecohey or dreamy sound which relfects me. this can either be hip hop music or trance or house or "grime intstrumentals" or heavy metal or indie or even pop music. But it has to have one of them three things in it to make me like it. I find instrumentals probabley more inspriataion than a singer over it.

I like t shirts which have a real art look too it which makes you think. I like art which is different and origonal it has to be werid and crazy.

I like London - Liverpool street train station. The lights when you get off it i could fall asleep in it makes me feel really comfortable.

I like latin football "spanish,portuguise,brazil,argentina," I find its more less about winning its more about winning it with flair, they rather do the harder thing than do the pridictable to exicte the crowd. you hardly ever get that in britain set for one certain portuguise star from man u.

I know when somthings up unlike some people at collage. this boy been saying he had a girlfriend everyone belive him. set for one certain person me. When my dad was cheating on my mum i was the first one to realise something up. because i mind in a routine in all the time. i watch what people do most of the time to keep that in my routine in my head. i can easily spot when they being different. sometimes i get told im over reacting but sometimes i think there liaring to me. but some say its a depressive side. i rather have it than not have it.

I didnt think there was any places which i really like the look of and feel chilled out and relaxed. too i went to. new forest. animals let lose on the road and can go anywhere they want. sun was shinning for the whole two weeks making the hills and trees and animals and flowers really stand out. i loved it there and i was i think 13 when i went there i didnt think i enjoy that sort of hoilday but we did loads of things everyday plus it was where i learnt to ride a bike and had loads of fun on that. too someboby made me stopp again where i live after swearing at me and calling me names because i was going too slow ahh i hate it where i live.

A few things I love:

- Plated rusted metal on modern buildings, it must be the texture very rough etc.

- Velvet, I have lots of velvet, trousers blazers ties the whole lot!

- I also have a strange obessions with numbers, particularly dates, 07-07-07 is going to be a great day.

- I find blue lighting really nice, i have a window on the side of my pc case and its completly blue, its relaxing.

- SCI-FI! I dunno what it is or if its related to my dyspraxia, its great.

- The smell after a storm its so refreshing

if you like strange numbers then you'll love this one, I know someone whose granddaughter turned 13 on the 06/06/06!!

robyn wrote:if you like strange numbers then you'll love this one, I know someone whose granddaughter turned 13 on the 06/06/06!!

Damn! that is odd, Thats kinda wierd, I like 13 because my birthdate is 13-05. but i dont like 13 against 6 6 6 as theres no way to make 13 out of those numbers

I'll tell you something which i have found to be rather odd, number wise anyway. I like the numbers 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20 etc, if you follow that pattern you'll see theres a good collection, but I just think it is so funny. 2 is a fifth of the ten, 5 is half way, and 8 of course is just 2 off of 10, I just think its wierd.

but its probably just me

I think it is because the fact 13 is supposed to be an unlucky number for some, and to be 13 on that day, month, year, as the 6's are supposed to be related to the devil.

I bet the parent's didn't think of that before deciding to have a child!!

dont be rediculous, her birth date wouldnt make any difference to them, shes a lovely kid. besides which the chances of planning for a certain date are virtually impossible. its just a funny sounding coquincidence of numbers

I have always been able to smell sea water.... I know it sounds bizaare but when i was 15 i walked into the science lab at school and was adamant i could smell sea water, everyone laughed at me but it turned out there were 5 jam jars full of sea water at the back of the class. That was what I could smell.

Kirsty,.................

I consider the complexities of a situation far too radically for my own good, and more often than not add a negative twist to the situation.

There are lots of oddities mentioned in the thread that I can relate too, here are some of mine:

when I'm out, I don't need to drink to "get drunk", once everyone else is full of alcohol, I simply "let my hear down" and act as I normally would if I wasn't busy concentrating on everything all the time, this includes making mistakes when I speak, noticing silly little things such as a decoration in a bar, or a far away person's odd hair cut, and changing the subject of a conversation rapidly and without warning.

I find it unusually easy to write backwards and with a little practice I;m sure I could train myself to write just as quickly and neatly as I can forwards (which isin't very neat or quick at all).
If I'm playing scrabble, I can read the board equilly well from any angle (so I usully get the, to other people, awkward seat behind and to the left of the front of the board)
I'm a brilliently fast reader, I can read writing faster then I can keep up by talking out the words, I can appreciate good poerty and other such writings and when I'm on air I can read from a prompt fluently and flawlessly, (infact my reading is even better then my regular speech, when I'm talking normally i make countless mistakes and pauses).
I'm a terribly poor writer, a trait exaggerated all the more becasue I myself have to read what I just wrote, and I usually end grimacing at my terrible grammer and impossibly long and rambly sentences, rewrite it, then end up with something just as bad and give up. The last sentence I just did is a perfect example of what I mean.


I'm left handed, and my right hand is nearly usless, I only recently learned to use a knife with it. Before, I would sitck my fork into my food, then exchange my knife and fork hands, cut it, change back and then pick it up with the fork.

hm.. can't remember any more.

I consider the complexities of a situation far too radically for my own good, and more often than not add a negative twist to the situation.

do you mean when you work yourself up into a state and keep making things worse?
I often emagine building a perfectly safe house, first I think, I should have an underground bunker, thne I think, What if theres a cave in and I suffocate?, then you make an air vent... what if there is a gas attack? make it filtr the air, what if it brakes? etc, etc, etc,

then I eveuntually conclude that it isso unlikely to happen, that I've just wasted my entire class on a pointless quest, when I could actually be learning something.

I tend to assign genders to letters and numbers, I don't know why but I enjoy it. For example, 'a' and 'c' are feminine to me and 'b' and 'd' are masculine as are the numbers '10' and '15'. Does anyone else do this?

I also just like to listen to nice voices wash over me.