Dyspraxic Adults

I know a majority of people with asperger syndrome or traits of asperger syndrome have dyspraxia ?

What about the reverse ?

As an idea, what percentage of people with dyspraxia have aspergers traits (ASD traits) or asperger syndrome (ASD) ?

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10% of the population have dyspraxia.

1.5% of the population have ASD.

I think the answer is around 15%.

Please cite peer reviewed sources to support your claim: "I know a majority of people with asperger syndrome or traits of asperger syndrome have dyspraxia ?"

Neurodivergent conditions seem to comprise a hotch potch of shared /similar traits. I don't think anyone has bothered to try to work out incidences

Is simply multiplying 10 x 1.5 statisticically sound?

I think the figure is a mistake. If 1.5% of the population have aspergers, 1% have aspergers syndrome or aspergers traits and dyspraxia.

Statistics can be a nightmare and horribly brain bendingly confusing.

I believe the Dyspraxia Foundation have cited that 10% of people may be affected by Dyspraxia. 2% more severely. I don't really know a lot about the incidence of other NeuroDivergent conditions and the degree to which they co-occur

The name Aspergers seems to have fallen out of favour as Herr Doktor Hans Asperger is believed to have been complicit in Nazi eugenics programmes in the 30s and 40s.

Autism, AS and other conditions seem to all be lumped under the umbrella term ASD now.

Some Dyspraxia traits are common to / shared by folk with other NeuroDivergent conditions. It seems more or less impossible to pin down which traits and which behaviours are due to a specific condition and if they are exclusive to that condition. We are all unique and often present in a variety of ways.

I was diagnosed with HFA (High Functioning Autism) years ago when they were a seperate diagnosis. I think know its just classed as Autistic Spectrum Disorder so regardless of whether your classic with severe learning difficulties, HFA (without) or Asperger's (with or without) you're just classed as somewhere on the spectrum!

With regard to mobility I was only told it was called Ataxia when I looked it up it means balance or co-ordination problems and can refer in the sense that its just a symptom of another condition (ie such as Dyspraxia or Stroke, CP) or it can also be a progressive neurological condition (more along the same lines as MS/Parkinsons etc).

What got me onto Dyspraxia was the fact I always had speech problems (difficulty in producing speech though I know exactly what I want to say) and I fit the verbal dyspraxia. once I saw it was developmental and I knew my symptoms were much worse in childhood due to birth complications and a rare condition I knew that 'my Ataxia' was a symptom of dyspraxia.

When looking at dyspraxia symptoms list it says 'autistic-like' symptoms, so how does one know if they are only 'autistic-like' because of dyspraxia or they are autistic but also have motor or verbal dyspraxia??? If you look on NAS site purely looking for symptoms of autism alone it also mentions 'soft neurological symptoms such as clumsiness and mild balance and co-ordination issues'. It's not very clear at all!

Maybe the fact I was about to put a smiley on but had no clue which one was meant to represent a confused face, should tell me which it is????