Dyspraxic Adults

So I've gone over 20 years being VERY uncoordinated but "smart" at school so nobody thought anything of the fact that I felt really dumb at times. Like when people would say a ton of instructions or sometimes say just about anything but the room was loud or I was just busy thinking of something else at the same time.
I did a degree in SEN and found out about dyspraxia and it was like the story of my life.
Now I know a formal diagnosis is not gonna make it go away or fix or really change anything but I really want to get tested because there are countless situations every day that I feel I don't cope with like the rest of the adults around me. For example I get this overload feeling a lot when someone's been talking for a long time and there's a lot of information. Then I get upset and feel dumb because surely I should be able to keep up. Plus I forever get lost even if I've been somewhere many times before. And I guess I would feel better knowing that this is why and not that I'm just stupid.
Does anyone know how much the whole test is and how to go about it? Also does anyone get this kind of brain overload feeling or is it just my brain being slow?

Hi and welcome

Where are you from? Are you in work or studying full time? Advice on how you might proceed can vary depending on current corcumstances.

Brain Fog and being overwhelmed is def a trait but is equally a feature of anxiety;which many of us have too.

Your brain isn't any slower. It may actually be running faster so is reaching saturation point sooner as you see the big picture and aren't as able to filter out the non-essential info.

See also
http://www.dyspraxicadults.org.uk/forum ... f=4&t=7349

My neuropsychologist just diagnosed me without the formal testing, just based it on history and questions. Yes, I have a shot bandwidth---I go into information overload all of the time, particularly with anything related to technology or mathematics. My brain just shuts down ===it's like system overload -----collapse.

Yes Tom, I forgot about the anxiety thing--that contributes a lot to my shut down and to a state of exhaustion as well---they kind of go hand in hand--the more I feel I'm on overload, the more anxious I become, and the more exhausted I become and it's just a vicious cycle.