Dyspraxic Adults

I just came back from a "survival kit for teaching" seminar. Yeah, like I'm going to become a teaching assistant anytime soon. Anyway that's not the point, the point is that during the seminar the gal giving the talk made reference to her brother who is dyspraxic. (She was illustrating that TAs should be aware of invisible disabilities) One of the things she said was that he tended to make strange logical connections, which, while logical, generally weren't intuitive to anyone else. What's the phrase...a "knights move" I think? Some chess reference.

Anyway, I keep making leaps of logic that leave others going "mwuh" and looking at me like I'm some sorta crazy man. I was wondering if any of you knew anything about this, either from the literature or personal experience.

I normally find Im very intuitive when reading emotions and understanding the reasons behind them (like at work). I also found at uni that I picked up on things in texts that others never noticed or saw as significant.

I alsways thought my ex had a weird logic but looking back on it now, it was probably me with the odd logic...

robyn wrote:I normally find Im very intuitive when reading emotions and understanding the reasons behind them (like at work). I also found at uni that I picked up on things in texts that others never noticed or saw as significant.

Yeah me too!!! I pick up on random info that other ppl seemed to look over too. Im also good at seeing the overpoint clearly, in lectures etc. Hard to explain!!

My philosophy lecturer described me as a divergent lateral thinker when I was 17, I think he was right. I can produce a conclusion which seems perfectly straight forward to me but takes time to explain to anyone else.

Lots of neuro-diverse people (both aspies and dyspraxics alike) seem to have the ability to naturally engage in lateral thinking. (which like Ruth said, allows us to see things from different angles and think of innovative solutions that don't occur to "normal" people)

I also know that normal neuro-typical people pay a lot of money to attend seminars to learn similar skills-- whereas some of us are born with this ability.

Hey, I'm training to be a primary school teacher at the moment. I almost flipped out a few times due to what you'd expect the average dyspraxic to foind stressful: board writing, marking, general organisation, etc.

The only way of doing the job (I think) is to be organised to a ludiciris degree that other people find completely anal. At least that is what I think this week.


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Steve

I've done that a few times, but it's due more to me being a fan of Eddie Izzard more than anything

I'm glad that looking at things in a different way appears to be fairly common among dyspraxics. I'd hate it if I was the only one.

Has anybody done any studies to see if there is a coorelation between finding it difficult to fit in socially and proficiency at lateral thinking?

I find my brain tends to go from a to z which is fast and diffrent unfortunatley as I have learnt in maths etc. its usefull to know how you got to the answer

Bungle wrote:I've done that a few times, but it's due more to me being a fan of Eddie Izzard more than anything

Ah, a fellow fan!

"Never put jam on a magnet"

I always miss out a few steps in working anything out and get to a logical conclusion (or i see it that way at least, everyone else seems to just give me dirty looks)

HAHA

Kirsty

I always had that, but I used to think it was becasue I was left handed.

I often have debates with my friend, on subjects such as morals and religion. Recently she told me that she found me hard to argue with, as although I come up with highly logical points, I come up with them in ways she can't fathom. Perhaps that's the same kind of thing.

I confuse people either by the way that I come at things, or the fact that I have an extensive internal dialogue going on, and they only tend to hear about 30% of that.