HI!
Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 2:51 pm
Hi My Name is Kelly (but kelly was taken as a login)
I am 26 years old and when I was 7 I was diagnosed as dyspraxic - but no one ever explained to me what having the condition meant, how to cope with it, that it would make making friends, school and work life dificult or that it meant it would impact so much more than "being clumsy".
I had only found out recently through my own research into the conditon that it is a neuroliogical disorder and that so many things I thought were just weird quirks and personality traits of mine are actually symptoms of the condition, knowing that would have made so much of my life to date easier for me and easier to explain to other people why I am the way I am.
Even though I have suffered severly with low self esteem and depression on and off for years my Dr never made the correlation between the two.
I would love to talk to other dyspraxic people (hence why I have finally found this forum) as I have never met a dyspraxix person before and hardly anyone seems to have heard of it, I also feel that it might be fun and a way to make understanding friendships.
I enjoy reading, watching tv, I sold my car (it took me 2 years of solid lessons to finally pass the test and a very patient driving instructor) so that I could go to college to train as a chef as I love cooking, I was made redundant from the office job I had in December (where I was continaually critised for being forgetful, clumsy and not listening properly and not being able to add up correctly), I am messy, forgetful, clumsy, emotionally unstable, funny, humourous, clever, and slightly unpredictable
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Sorry about the length of this I am a bit of a "waffler" and HELLO to everyone
xKelly
I am 26 years old and when I was 7 I was diagnosed as dyspraxic - but no one ever explained to me what having the condition meant, how to cope with it, that it would make making friends, school and work life dificult or that it meant it would impact so much more than "being clumsy".
I had only found out recently through my own research into the conditon that it is a neuroliogical disorder and that so many things I thought were just weird quirks and personality traits of mine are actually symptoms of the condition, knowing that would have made so much of my life to date easier for me and easier to explain to other people why I am the way I am.
Even though I have suffered severly with low self esteem and depression on and off for years my Dr never made the correlation between the two.
I would love to talk to other dyspraxic people (hence why I have finally found this forum) as I have never met a dyspraxix person before and hardly anyone seems to have heard of it, I also feel that it might be fun and a way to make understanding friendships.
I enjoy reading, watching tv, I sold my car (it took me 2 years of solid lessons to finally pass the test and a very patient driving instructor) so that I could go to college to train as a chef as I love cooking, I was made redundant from the office job I had in December (where I was continaually critised for being forgetful, clumsy and not listening properly and not being able to add up correctly), I am messy, forgetful, clumsy, emotionally unstable, funny, humourous, clever, and slightly unpredictable
. Sorry about the length of this I am a bit of a "waffler" and HELLO to everyone
xKelly
i was diagnosed young with dyspraxia as well - aged 5 but like you i only really started researching the condition myself a couple of years and what it meant in relation to me i think your right no one really knows what the condition is but what makes me panic more now is when people say they know what the condition is because there almost always wrong 
someone told me that i t meant i couldnt recognise what different shapes were ??? 
the ups and downs off being dyspraxic arnt great.. i try to focus myself so i bring happiness to others 