Anyone else have dyspraxia?

[kainedamo]

I have dyspraxia. I am dyspraxic. I don't know ANYONE else with dyspraxia. As far as I know I've never met another person with it. It's pretty rare. It only affects, like, 10% of the population. Oddly, it mostly effects males. Odd is the word for the "learning disability". So many strange symptons. It's kinda similar to dyslexia. In fact, dyslexics and dyspraxics sometimes share similar traits.

Look at that. She can't even climb that ladder. Poor thing.

Dyspraxia is also known as clumsy child syndrome. I don't know why, it affects adults too! But yeah, pretty much... dyspraxia makes you clumsy. According to Wiki, It is an immaturity of the way the brain processes information, resulting in messages not being fully transmitted to the body" and is a learning difficulty that can be present from birth (developmental dyspraxia) or as a result of brain damage suffered from a stroke or other trauma (acquired dyspraxia).

It's actually a condition I know very little about, surprisingly. I get all of my info about it from the net. I was diagnosed as having dyspraxia pretty late in life. I was about 15 when I was tested for it. What's worse, it was years later when I actually found out I had it! When I was about 19, I just found a doctor's note lying around saying "your child has dyspraxia". I looked up information about it, and suddenly so much stuff made sense.

I just thought it was me! I thought I was a clumsy, dumb bastard who was naturally unskilled in socailizing. All of the instances of embarresment, awkwardness, lack of coordination, all of a sudden it made sense.

From my own research, I have found that some people seem to be worse off than others. I don't think I have it that bad, not as bad as some others seem to have it. In fact, I hardly ever even think about it. I don't think of it as a big deal. Sure, it leads to embarresment, and acts of clumsiness. When I was a kid, it explains why the other kids thought I was dumb. Other dyspraxics have had this problem too. So naturally it leads to being bullied.

It's classed as a learning disability, but it effects so much more than that. Socalizing, buttering toast, handwriting, etc etc. You guys should see my handwriting. It frustrates me when regular people complain about their handwriting, and say "I write like a 10 year old". My handwriting is literally like a ten year olds. I couldn't tie my laces until I was about 10!

It explains why I was always bad at sports. My Dad was always frustrated with me 'cause I was always crap at sports.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvoknfers00

Look at that poor dyspraxic kid!

It's something that gets better with age, I've personally found. But I'm an adult now, so it's really not gonna get much better. I'm still always going to have trouble talking to people. I'm still going to bump into people when I walk.

I wonder what things would have been like without dyspraxia. Is dyspraxia responsible for my poor grades in school? I mean, one of the traits of dyspraxia is that you're easily distracted. Which I was in school. I found it very difficult to concentrate on work.

Something that annoys me is I don't know how much is the dyspraxia and how much is me. Because it affects so much!

 

[kainedamo]

Info from Wikipedia...

Developmental Profiles
There are six main areas of difficulty which can be profiled within dyspraxia; the four main areas are listed below:

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Speech and language
Developmental verbal dyspraxia is a type of ideational dyspraxia, causing linguistic or phonological impairment. Key problems include:

Difficulties controlling the speech organs.
Difficulties making speech sounds
Difficulty sequencing sounds
Within a word
Forming words into sentences
Difficulty controlling breathing and phonation.
Slow language development.
Difficulty with feeding.
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Fine Motor Control
Difficulties with fine motor co-ordination lead to problems with handwriting, which may be due to either ideational or ideo-motor difficulties. Problems associated with this area may include:

Learning basic movement patterns.
Developing a desired writing speed.
The acquisition of graphemes – e.g. the letters of the Latin alphabet, as well as numbers.
Establishing the correct pencil grip
Hand aching while writing
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Whole body movement, coordination, and body image
Issues with fine motor coordination mean that major developmental targets include walking, running, climbing and jumping. One area of difficulty involves associative movement, where a passive part of the body moves or twitches in response to a movement in an active part. For example, the support arm and hand twitching as the dominant arm and hand move, or hands turning inwards or outwards to correspond with movements of the feet. Problems associated with this area may include:

Poor timing
Poor balance
Difficulty combining movements into a controlled sequence.
Difficulty remembering the next movement in a sequence.
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Physical play
Difficulties in areas relating to physical play may lead to dyspraxic children standing out from their peers. Major developmental targets include ball skills, use of wheeled toys and manipulative skills, including pouring, threading and using scissors.

Problems with spatial awareness, or proprioception
Mis-timing when catching
Complex combination of skills involved in using scissors
The other two developmental profiles concern dressing and feeding.

 

[jaguarr]

Whattya say we grab the baseball gloves and go play a little catch, sport?

jag

 

[kainedamo]

Look at this...

Dypsraxics (along with people who have similar conditions on the Autistic spectrum) may have difficulty sleeping since there is an inability to force the brain to stop thinking and "shut down"[citation needed]. A dyspraxic is nearly always thinking about several unrelated things at once, (the inverse is also possible, with only one dominant thought occupying the dyspraxic's entire attention span at any given time) so this may cause easy distractability and daydreaming[citation needed]. It is quite easy for someone with dyspraxia to concentrate entirely on a particular thought instead of on the situation at hand. For this reason, dyspraxia may be misdiagnosed as ADHD since on the surface both conditions have similar symptoms in some areas[citation needed]. Many people with dyspraxia have short-term memory issues and may forget instructions they received only seconds before, tend to forget important deadlines, and are constantly misplacing items[citation needed].

LOL!! It affects sooooooo much. What a weird disability. I think dyspraxia is probably worse than aids. White nationalists should probably concentrate on getting rid of dyspraxics instead of black people. We're just... weird. We can't even butter bread right.

 

[kainedamo]

Dyspraxics often have difficulty in determining left from right, and this may cause problems that persist through life[citation needed]. Cross-laterality, ambidextrousness, and a shift in the preferred hand are also common in people with dyspraxia[citation needed].

Lol!! Dear god, we suck balls. I'm actually laughing my head off reading some of this stuff.

Apparently, some dyspraxics have trouble detecting sarcasm and don't really get it. I don't have that problem. What an odd, odd disability.

 

[kainedamo]

From the dyspraxia foundation. These are the problems I myself am most aware of, this is probably what effects me most...

Difficulty in listening to people, especially in large groups. Can be tactless, interrupt frequently. Problems with team work
Difficulty in picking up non-verbal signals or in judging tone or pitch of voice in themselves and or others. Tendency to take things literally. May listen but not understand
Slow to adapt to new or unpredictable situations. Sometimes avoids them altogether
Impulsive. Tendency to be easily frustrated, wanting immediate gratification
Tendency to be erratic ñ have 'good and bad days'
Tendency to opt out of things that are too difficult

 

[Lord Valumart]

you know how when your all like parnoid and you read about something and you think "i have a few of those things..." and it's only like 4 or 5....

i have like 13 of the things you listed

 

[tzarinna]

I knew once I started reading it, I would have it by the end.
I shall remain healthy by not doing so.

 

[kainedamo]

you know how when your all like parnoid and you read about something and you think "i have a few of those things..." and it's only like 4 or 5....

i have like 13 of the things you listed

What things do you have?

 

[Lord Valumart]

What things do you have?

mostly the word/speaking stuff...and the memory thing....and the situation stuff...

i also have some of the stuff that autistic people have....

 

[kainedamo]

mostly the word/speaking stuff...and the memory thing....and the situation stuff...

i also have some of the stuff that autistic people have....

What stuff autistic people have?

Maybe you should get checked out.

 

[Lord Valumart]

What stuff autistic people have?

Maybe you should get checked out.

i have that sort of social thing and that thing about being touched and getting hugs and such...also that thing where everything has to be just right...but only if it's going to be around for a while, like my figs and dvd's have to be just right, but my clothes from the day before can just lie there for all i care

and i have thought about getting cheched out.....maybes soon...

 

[tzarinna]

Great I read it and yes I have some of those things too.
Thanks.

 

[Leto Atrides]

i have that sort of social thing and that thing about being touched and getting hugs and such...also that thing where everything has to be just right...but only if it's going to be around for a while, like my figs and dvd's have to be just right, but my clothes from the day before can just lie there for all i care

and i have thought about getting cheched out.....maybes soon...

Self-diagnosis is a terrible idea. If your life is really being impeded, try to get help and tell the person what the problems are. But reading about a disease on Wikipedia or something and convincing yourself you have it can cause alot of problems.

I've heard of this happening with Asperger's Syndrome alot. People that just have some social problems read about it and assume that's their problem. They end up giving themselves the full blown disease; not literally, but they convince they have it and act accordingly.

So just be careful with self-diagnosis.

 

[Mic]

Yep, iv got nearly all of that.

Explains alot I guess.

 

[Holly Goodhead]

This wont make Vicki feel sorry for you.

 

[WeaponZ2]

Look at this...

Dypsraxics (along with people who have similar conditions on the Autistic spectrum) may have difficulty sleeping since there is an inability to force the brain to stop thinking and "shut down"[citation needed]. A dyspraxic is nearly always thinking about several unrelated things at once, (the inverse is also possible, with only one dominant thought occupying the dyspraxic's entire attention span at any given time) so this may cause easy distractability and daydreaming[citation needed]. It is quite easy for someone with dyspraxia to concentrate entirely on a particular thought instead of on the situation at hand. For this reason, dyspraxia may be misdiagnosed as ADHD since on the surface both conditions have similar symptoms in some areas[citation needed]. Many people with dyspraxia have short-term memory issues and may forget instructions they received only seconds before, tend to forget important deadlines, and are constantly misplacing items[citation needed].

LOL!! It affects sooooooo much. What a weird disability. I think dyspraxia is probably worse than aids. White nationalists should probably concentrate on getting rid of dyspraxics instead of black people. We're just... weird. We can't even butter bread right.

........What did you just say?

 

[unknownuser]

Ignorance is bliss

 

[Revolver_Ocelot]

I'd take Aids over being clumsy any day.
You get to wear a robe and drink broth all day!

 

[ShadowBoxing]

Great. Now Clumbsyness is a disorder. What ever happened to the old days where kids were just stupid, hyper and trouble makers.

 

[Leto Atrides]

Great. Now Clumbsyness is a disorder. What ever happened to the old days where kids were just stupid, hyper and trouble makers.

Clumsiness isn't the disease. It's a definite neurological problem that can manifest as clumsiness, among other things. I think that sometimes they're too eager to call things a disease (e.g. obesity) but this is a real condition.

 

[Hades]

For the longest time it was believed I had dyslexia untill it was later proven false. Of course, it was later brought up agian, and believed I had a learning disorder, but I was never properly diagnosed agian. I've pretty much had trouble with all these symptoms in the past one time or the other.

 

[kainedamo]

Yep, it's a real disease. It's got to do with information not travelling right in the brain. Your brain wants to do one thing, the body does another. Like I said, I don't even know a great deal about it. It's obvious my parents attempted to hide it from me, so I didn't get alot of help. I've only had handwriting classes. But I'm thinking, maybe I should go ask my local doctor about it. I dunno... having dyspraxia isn't that much of a hinderance to me. It was a bigger problem when I was a kid.

 

[Erzengel]

Um, maybe you should go with a second diagnosis besides a note you found 3 years ago?

Then maybe see a specialist?

 

[SapphirePrima]

I think I have that =( I'm horrible at driving and I take things too literally.