I'm not going to let this define me anymore.

[Teejaye98]

I don't know what has brought this on, other than the fact that I'm sick of feeling like this. Hearing about the fact that I'm going to have a harder time finding love, finding a job, finding happiness, because of something I can't control. That is so hard for me to hear, so hard for me to accept. So I won't.

I have found love before, so deeply, and although I have lost it, I know I am so so so capable of love and caring for someone. My social skills are not lacking. I have created an identity outside of dyspraxia. I don't want to put myself in a box this early on in my life. I am someone besides the dyspraxic qualities.

This isn't to make people with these challenges concerning love and jobs and everything feel bad about how their dyspraxia affects them. But everyone is different, and I have worked hard to make sure dyspraxia doesn't control me and my life.

This forum is amazing, and I'm glad it exists, but for anyone reading this forum and thinking that dyspraxia is going to ruin them, know that although you don't have control over your condition, you have control over a lot more than you realize. I care for people so very deeply, and I am able to show them that every day. Dyspraxia doesn't mean you won't ever find happiness. I want to prove so many people wrong.

[SansaBaby]

Your are so right dyspraxia doesn't define us.

I'm not diagnosed but have had a hard time in life. But now I am starting to feel happiness, I am married to an amazing man who loves me for everything including my dyspraxia. And I have a beautiful little girl who deserves the best mum I can be.

I'm struggling to find a job but I will get there.

I struggle to explain myself sometimes, but it's ok as long as I'm mostly understood.

This will be not beat us!