Dyspraxic Adults

Might not make sense but i often find because of my dyspraxia i try to explain things to people and i find it highly annoying/frustrating that they don't just get it. They ask what to me are overly simple and obvious questions that they should already know the answer to. Now I know that often this is because it is described the brain races ahead with concepts and we might well have a full image and expect others to see it as well, and I am getting a little better.
But the frustration is still very much there...hell i might even be doing it now! Anyone else relate?

Vic I know what you mean and I work in the NHS as a staff nurse with having Dyspraxia with Dyslexia its sometimes a daily battle just to get the most simple of things done and trying to explain to people how much of issue dyspraxia is. I do get frustrated alot and sometimes have to remove myself to somewhere quieter to calm down and compose myself before returing to the situation.

definitely find this. sometimes I find that someone else will say exactly the same thing moments later and somehow they will then understand
I think I do assume a lot of the time that people will follow my train of thought. It's frustrating when you're trying to explain something but cannot put it forward in a way a neurotypical person can understand.

Totally agree , plus i find repetition of teh same thing very annoying . Explain to me what yo want done , and leave me to it . Ill come back and ask if i have a an issue

Thanks...at least i know i am semi sane then! It'll probably be an issue for me still but at least i know it's not just one of my strange little "quirks"

Most of my friends can follow my train of thought...buut not always. One of my friends used to say that I started stories/conversatons in my head...

I get you on this one. I don't know if it is me but my Mum tells me I but in too much. I have noticed I do it to others on accassions lately as I watch myself closely and it is all because or when someone is talking, i know what they are about to say or where they are going. I can appear rude but my Mum particularly will drag things out and I can't wait and listen to what I feel I have already heard. My god I don't know why my brain jumps ahead so much.

I understand this as well. I butt in a lot too but I've learned to say ..... remind me to tell you about the ..... and people let it go. The other thing is what you say about the brain moving on. I'll be having a conversation with someone. My mind will have moved on 10 steps and when I speak again it will make sense to me and no one else. I also understand that thing about explaining things to peole and them not getting it. This is particularly bad when I get interupted. I think my mother acts obtuse on purpose to wind me up. She keeps interupting and asking stupid questions knowing full well how much it will wind me up. It really pisses me off

I know the feeling, althought it was just me to interrupted a lot and whose brain ran on.
I find it an issue especially when writing essays (i'm at uni) as I go from A to B to C except apparently I actaully go from A to D scipping B and C.

Does anyone else find it frustrating when people don't just say what they mean?? Why can't people do that? I'm really bad at understanding subtle nuances of speech, so will usually take what you say at face value, so get really frustrated when people get annoyed that I missed the implied emotions. Just tell me!! This also translates as my being found to be very abrupt and untactful a lot. I don't mean it like that, I just say it as it is.

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"So you've got dyslexia then?" "Or is that like dyslexia?" or simply assuming I'd said dyslexia instead of dyspraxia. It does get rather annoying...people don't seem to accept it exists, more like we're making excuses, or just a symptom of this new-age tendency to diagnose syndromes that aren't really there. They have a point, I think ADHD has probably been over-used.