Dyspraxic Adults

Get yourself a full size keyboard to plug into the laptop. A laptops internal keyboard is very difficult to touch type with because it’s narrower and more compressed. After that... it’s largely placing your hands in the idea place for your fingers to reach the most common keys and practicing to deve...

At least you have a reason for your difficulties now. It doesn’t ultimately change anything but it can help you understand your difficulties better and you may find that your coping mechanisms develop a bit more organically around them. Like what has been said, knowledge is power.

Don’t worry, I think everyone would realise that you were talking about one person

welcome

Stay safe everyone.

Being dyspraxic shouldn’t prevent you from learning to drive if you want to. Yes, it may pose some difficulties, hand-eye coordination, spatial awareness etc but remember that driving is as much to do with attitude as it is basic ability. There are plenty of bad drivers out there who will have nor o...

Luckily for me, my fiancée is nuts about wrapping so I basically let her do it all... which is bad for everyone else as she has a habbit of making it nigh on impossible to unwrap

I don’t mind wrapping.. I start out neat enough but get sloppier with each gift.

Seasonal greetings everyone.

Also, it has been argued before that ASD may have been useful for evolution due to discoveries being made by high functioning autistic people. Indeed, it is suspected that some of history’s most revered geniuses, Einstein, Da Vinci etc would have been somewhere on the neuro diversity spectrum. I im...

I’m relatively fortunate with injuries.

I do have some spectacular ‘why or how did i do that?!’ moments.

One of my finer ones now dating back many years back in a day when I still had hair worth combing. For some inexplicable reason I went into the fridge to look for my comb.

Yeah, I would be hesitant to like this too heavily with dyspraxia because although motor difficulties in the hands can make the finer arts of hair styling, precision shaving etc difficult... being dirty is being dirty. More likely linked to personality or at a stretch if they’re going through a time...

Uncertainty definitely seems to be our enemy in a lot of cases and getting and following clear instructions consistently can be a struggle. Have any of your PT's indicated why they find you difficult to work with? Have you mentioned Dyspraxia to any of them? I think this, for me is a reason why I’m...

Aww sensory overload. This is the part of my dyspraxia which switches on the easiest and quickest. And it really is all senses competing strongly for my attention all at once. Sound, conversation, interruption, task at hand, touch, space the feeling of being rushed and crowded. One of my pet peeves ...

I think ultimately you should never say ‘never’. If you asked me this ten years ago, then I would have immediately shut the conversation down as I was single, had less than zero social life, didn’t envisage myself ever finding love or a partner. Children weren’t even remotely in my thoughts and if t...

A lack of co-ordination is quite common amongst dyspraxics. I guess weight training, and actually many forms of gym exercise can be dangerous if you do it incorrectly or have poor posture and co-ordination. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it. I’m not sporty, nor Athletic. I don’t go to a gym ...

It’s all got to be a bit ‘give and take’. Sometimes it easy to forget that being dyspraxic can be mentally exhausting. We spend our entire day trying to hold it all together with our brains being bombarded and overloaded. Many dyspraxics find day to day activities extremely cognitively challenging. ...