Dyspraxic Adults

you know when...

you publish a chapter every fortnight, and you get sent an email requesting the new chapters and you think they mean FOR next week, not the week already started.

Oh boy do I feel stupid now....

You know you're dyspraxic when you pick a pack of tissues, take one out, put that on the desk and blow your nose on the packet.

Also when you go to make a cup of tea but put the milk and coffee in the kettle and the cold water in the mug, that was an interesting one

or making people cups of tea, and coffee and forgetting to boil the kettle and other miscellaneous things lol

When you lite a cigarette and then after inhaling you realize that you had it in your mouth backwards. Filters do taste bad

Joe, you wouldn't have ever gone by the internet name Caveman Joe would you, or am I mixing you up with a different Joe?

You know you're dyspraxic when you drop things within the first 2hours at work placement. (happened to me today three things in one morning)

You know when...

You say you'll make a cup of tea and forget.

Remember you said fancied a cup of tea 25 minutes later when asked 'what happened to that cup of tea then?' Boil the kettle and pour it out.

Go do something else while it brews.

Remember you made a cup of tea 40 minutes after it went cold.

Go downstairs retrieve tea bag, heat it up in the microwave..go do something else in the meanwhile

Remember you left the cup in the microwave some 40 minutes ago..

Heat it up a second time. Stay by the microwave and don't get distracted.

Finally drink cup of tea some two hours nearly after you first thought you might be thirsty.

..or the time you makes teas for the entire staff room but forget to take out the teabags.

Or you make cups of tea for staff but forget to boil the kettle in the first place.

You make tea/coffee for everyone doing talks to local school children, whilst making the tea you fail to notice the water urn has not heated up fully. Pour the drinks out, then find a colleague is upset because her dog has been put down and spend time with her... then give the drinks to everyone and they are stone cold... incuding the mayor.... who thinks jokingly it is a heath and safety ploy.....

Oh, and when people constantly get irritated that I watch every tv programme and dvd with subtitles... Or when I have to say "pardon"
for the 5th time in a normal conversation in a cafe...

Oh my god, i do that, i thought it was just me. i do it because i like to have something to read, i never knew it was a sympton of the dys!


when i've made love to my boyfriend and forgotton his name!

you say the wrong thing, because your social skills aren't that brilliant.

I think I have put my foot in it the last few days, and can't speak to the person, as they are to me

and yet at the same time I am to know what is happening, and why this person is to me

When your first 3 days at a new placement go like this:

Monday: Am 20 mins late because of forgetting that to be at work 30 mins away by 8:15, i need to set off before 8:05. Even though i'd been ready to leave for ages.

Tuesday: Am ready on time. Set off early checking i have staff pass etc to get in. Get to the bus stop and realise i forgot to pick up my bus pass. End up 30mins late.

Wednesday (Today): Alarm goes off. Get up jump in shower get ready. Put tv on to watch news while eating brekkie. Am shocked that its 5:30am. Realise i accidentaly set my alarm for 5am not 7am. lol

I don't wanna know what they think about me at work. Gotta go again tomorrow, and will get it right for once then i hope!

- You make yourself a bowl of cereal and put the box in the fridge and the milk in the cupboard.

- You turn up to a job interview 24 hours early because you read the letter wrong.

- You lose your oyster card only to find it randomly under a rug.

- You can't find your keys and find them in the freezer.

- Have permanent bruises on arms and lumps on head from walking into doors

- Tidy the flat and vow to become more organised only to find yourself in the same mess 10mins later.

I've forgotten my partners name after making love before. Ive taken just to referring to him as Sweetie, that way he doesnt know when ive forgotten!!!!!!!!!!!

Kirsty..........

Iv allways referred to everyone as sweety or darling or honey so as not to make it obvious that I miss pronounce and forget names, I picked it up from my aunt when I was little and its allways worked nicely.