Hi all

[November Rain]

My name is Adam, I'm 18 and I live in South Wales. I'm also registered to Dyspraxic Teens although it's been a while since I last posted there. I haven't been officially diagnosed with dyspraxia but when I was 16, just under two years ago, one of my college lecturers finally picked up on it and so I had someone from this institute in Cardiff to interview me. He wasn't able to diagnose me as such but he did say that he was 99.9% certain that I was dyspraxic, although not severely. Furthermore, with my mum having suspected it for years before, and how I know for a fact that I can relate to some of the symptoms, it's blantantly obvious to us that I am dyspraxic. I do tend to be clumsy and often find some physical tasks quite difficult, sometimes even something as 'simple' as lighting a match for example (they almost always break for me). I've also been picked up on having verbal dyspraxia, I can find it really hard to come up with the right words when communicating and I often get tongue tied, although the latter may have more to do with my shyness (even if I'm not as shy as I used to be).

All in all, it's always nice to talk to people you can relate to in whatever way. I hope to get to know the forum members well and ejoy my time here.

Thanks for reading this, hope I haven't put you to sleep.

[The Lurker]

Welcome

[gherkin001]

Hi Adam! Welcome to the forum!!

Kirsty

[Liz944]

Hi

Welcome to the forum!

[Daniel]

Hi Adam and a warm welcome to the forum.

What you've said sounds very familiar to my experiences over the year and I'm sure the true is many others on the forums too.

I hope you find the forums useful and let us know how the website can serve you better as we're currently working on expanding the site.

Dan,
Dyspraxic Adults co-founder

[Wildcat_madness]

Welcome ^_^

[Meg]

Hey I'm Meg

Welcome to the forum

[SavV]

Greetings Adam, I'm SavV. I tend to come and go from this place fairly often, but I'm usually around

Cheers

[Shadwell]

Hi Adam,

welcome to the forum, I was going to say with a user name like rain, are you from Wales by any chance?!! but then seen that you are. from what I remember I think I was diagnosed Dyspraxic in the Heath Hospital, but can't find the letter now, as I only found it in my medical records, after being told for years that it was all in my head. even though the letter was dated 1986.

hope you like the forum, everyone is friendly, even the animations!! looks like wales will out take the rest of the uk for dyspraxics soon!!

Mike

[November Rain]

Hi Adam,

welcome to the forum, I was going to say with a user name like rain, are you from Wales by any chance?!! but then seen that you are. from what I remember I think I was diagnosed Dyspraxic in the Heath Hospital, but can't find the letter now, as I only found it in my medical records, after being told for years that it was all in my head. even though the letter was dated 1986.

hope you like the forum, everyone is friendly, even the animations!! looks like wales will out take the rest of the uk for dyspraxics soon!!

Mike

Nice to meet someone local, I'm from Gwent, not far from Bridgend at all.