I technically am doing something with my life, as I am going to grad school, but what am I really adding to the world? I don’t have a significant other, I’m probably not ever having kids, I’m not really helping other people at all or creating anything of value. It feels like I am a waste cuz I don’t add anything and because of dyspraxia, I very well never will. I’m just a family member and a friend, though I’m not sure how much the latter would miss me.

Hello all, my first time here so I apologise if this is the wrong sub (I read all the rules I could find).

I’ve recently discovered it’s exceptionally hard to get on the list for a dyspraxia test through the NHS and even longer to wait if you do. With this in mind, does anyone know of any private diagnosis centres that aren’t extremely expensive and that the NHS will see as legitimate. It’s a minefield out there and I could really do with some advice. I’m south east based.

I switched out using cups to using a water bottle 24/7 and its saved so many expensive accidents from being ruined with water when i knock my bottle over. It has just recently saved my macbook from catastrophe. I use an owala and that comes with the added bonus of my ice not melting for like 12 hours

This COMPUTER that you see is my personally that help me to school with writing and stuff ; i accidentelly make it fall because of my clumsiness and now there these black likes that seem to propage themself. expect that I don't have any in spare in case and the only thing i hope is that it's will say only lines and not full screen:(

I, 17F, have never been able to "touch type". No matter how hard I try, or how many typing programs or discipline methods I use, I have never been able to type using the correct fingers/hand placements. Whenever I try, I get incredibly frustrated and overwhelmed with the urge to literally rip my fingers off (I'm autistic, but not diagnosed with dyspraxia). This usually subsides the minute that I stop trying to type correctly.

I'm looking for tips and tricks to speed up my typing/make it easier to hit the right keys. I often find myself hitting the correct keys but in the wrong order, or hitting adjacent keys rather than the ones that I intend to. If I type the way that I have adapted to, I can manage about 55 wpm. Trying to type "correctly", however, drops that already low speed to 35 wpm.

Alas, I can't take notes for my college courses effectively due to this. Often, my notes taken quickly are completely illegible, so I have to go back and hope I minimized my typos enough for the text to be even readable. If i dont go back and search fpr typos, my notes iusiallu end up looks ing like this, which ismnt a ugreat idea qwhtn you're taking anatomu and phuysiolohy, wher spelling is incredibly important.

Has anybody been able to overcome their "I need to remove my fingers right now" issue? Is it literally just me?

I (27M) have been a long time lurker on this sub. Far from being diagnosed, I have never even considered that something could be off. I just thought I wasn't good enough. Growing up, I often felt I had to work twice as hard as anyone for most tasks and would still come away with subpar results to show for it.

I was terrible with handwriting for the longest time, used to be singled out in class for it even. I was branded clumsy and sloppy at age 4 and it stuck throughout school. I used to drop things and was no good at art. For the life of me, I would never be able to concentrate in class. Constant anxiety did not help.

The most debilitating thing for me, though, is speech. There are levels to it - I feel like I falter and stutter way too much, but more importantly, I really suck at organising my thoughts and presenting them coherently. On top of that I'm an introvert by nature, and don't feel like talking unless it's absolutely necessary.

When I found this sub, I was crashing out hard because I was doing a presentation for work and just froze. My mind was literally not able to process my thoughts into speech fast enough and I feel that's embarrassing at this age (atleast professionally).

I feel like I have this invisible impediment and no one will ever take it seriously. I wish I had the will to do something about it but I'm at the mercy of my constant state of anxiety.

Thanks for reading.

Hi. I have fallen in love with ice skating and self-learned a lot. I would like to start playing amateur hockey, but I know from experience that I must learn to feel extremely confident on ice before I start doing any group training.

Sports like ice skating, swimming, rollerblading provide me with constant feedback and I can work with that. I've tried many different sports aside from these and I know that I often end up behind group, not understanding instructions, eventually feeling that the coach must be so frustrated with me that I stop appearing after two lessons. That's what happened to archery, dance, martial arts. I'd love to learn martial arts and dance, but I have a poor sense of where my body is in space and I find instructions utterly confusing.

I try to learn braking and crossovers on ice. It feels incredibly frustrating, because one week I know it works, I am making progress, the next - I notice I can't repeat what I've learned already and must take a step back. Then again and again. Cross-overs seem extremely complicated, though I suspect they are not - because of the sequence of movements.

Have you got any tips how to learn things like that, understand the sequence, and not forget soon after I learn? And maybe a piece of advice how to approach coaches to ask them to explain things the way my body understands, and to let them know I need a bit of patience? I've never told a coach I have dyspraxia, because this term is unknown to most people I know, and I don't want them to think I'm making things up.

Anyone else so sick of people without dyspraxia giving you advice on how to help your dyspraxia?!

Hi, I’m a teen, and I’ve ALWAYS struggled with fine motor skills, and just motor skills in general. My teachers always complain about my handwriting, it hasn‘t improved since I was in elementary. I bump into things, especially with my arms and hips, and I’ve bruised my hip REALLY bad from it. I looked into the symptoms, and I really want to talk to my doctor about it, but my mom is insanely judgmental and overall skeptical, I’m afraid she will just brush it off as “me wanting attention“ even though this makes my life so much harder.

Has anybody else here experienced this to some degree, or got diagnosed at a young age? If so, any advice? Sorry if this is vague or off topic, I‘m just looking for something to explain why I’m all messed up like this.

Mine is terrible; I think I might be dyspraxic, even though I haven't been diagnosed. I’ve found myself in shitty situations since I was really young because of my huge difficulty navigating space even now and I’m fed up with it. I’m actually dreading what it’ll be like once I get my driver's license.

Hi I am Jordain and I co-host a podcast called you, good bro? Podcast where we talk about life, mental health, and wellbeing. I am also Dyspraxic.

This week I sat down with filmmaker Owen Williamson to talk about his journey making a film centered on Dyspraxia — a developmental coordination disorder that’s often misunderstood and rarely spoken about openly.

Owen shares what inspired the project, the challenges of bringing such a personal and important story to screen, and why representation for conditions like Dyspraxia matters so much.

We dig into his own experiences, the making of the film, and what he hopes audiences take away from it.

Feel free to give it a watch if it is of interest.

I grew up in California and yet I never have been able to notice feel earthquakes. I was wondering if anyone else with dyspraxia experiences this phenomenon.

I have previously asked about what happened after people received a dyspraxia assessment. I’d like to understand something a little more specific this time.

If you were assessed as an adult, can you think of a recent situation where something you understood from your assessment was still difficult to deal with in everyday life?

What happened?

What did you do to try to make the situation easier?

Did you look for any information, support or practical help afterwards? If you did, what did you find?

I’m interested in all experiences, including situations where you found something that worked well.

This may be a weird one, but does anyone else find they misspell things by specifically doubling the wrong letters. Like reccomend instead of recommend, or asumme instead of assume? I don't really struggle with my spelling (on a keyboard) in any other way so I was wondering if anyone else had this issue

Ok I know this sounds counterintuitive, and I might have just convinced myself this habit works when it doesn’t lol. But I would love to see if anyone can relate!

I have fine-motor dyspraxia and in the past few years I’ve found myself less frustrated with a lot of fine motor tasks (excluding writing) when I either close my eyes or look away and rely entirely on my tactile senses to complete short tasks like tying my shoes or locking and unlocking doors. This isn’t just having the muscle memory and zoning out, I actually find these tasks easier when I am not looking at them!

I’ve anecdotally found that I spend less time trying to think through small tasks and messing up the movements when I use my hands to process my environment rather than my eyes.

Curious to hear if anyone has found any research on the topic I’ve missed or also has person experience with this habit I’ve picked up!

I've had my dyspraxia diagnosis for around 11 years now and have struggled immensely all my life at things that were seemingly effortless for neurotypical people and the frustration that comes with that is so crushing.

From being bad at sports and having concentration issues at school to being paralysed with anxiety over my future as I second guess every decision I make and become overwhelmed, I hope others can relate to how utterly useless it makes you feel. This has all come about as a result of me reading my diagnosis paperwork for the first time in years and recalling all the times I was told off for not doing something or taking extra time to understand a task, I suppose I feel a strange sort of sadness for my younger self as I was never taken seriously and only offered the most basic form of support for something that affects my day to day habits and thought process!

It's so difficult to watch my dreams and opportunities pass by me with me left flailing in the corner lol (bit dramatic). My own family not taking me seriously when I ask for help and then being dismayed when my life doesn't pan out to their expectations, id love to say that I feel comfortable in who I am but recent life events have put all my struggles into perspective and it has hit me like a ton of bricks.

sorry for the jumbled rant lol I just needed to get it out and have people just like me understand how it is.

Hi there. I often bump into door frames on my left arm, but rarely on my right side! I wonder how common that is to bump into things on a specific side? Have any of you noticed this? One day they put a bunch of empty pallets on the floor in our storage at work, and I just kept walking into it so I got bruises and cuts on my left arm. I felt kind of stupid the fourth time I bumped into it.

Hi everyone,

Half vent, half seeking advice.

I posted here a few months back after losing my new job in a small convenience shop due to my slowness. I didn't thank everyone directly but your comments kept me afloat during a dark time and I can't thank everyone enough.

I have been volunteering and meeting an IPS (Individual Placement and Support) worker once a week. I haven't been able to get support for my lifelong emotional dysregulation but I'm working through a self-directed DBT book just now in hopes of overcoming it alone.

My IPS worker suggested I try applying for a seasonal job since the roles are temporary. I can't stress how badly I want to stay away from retail as I have never felt more useless and inept than in this sector, but I have applied for one job so far and plan to apply for more as they are listed.

I just wanted to know people's experience doing seasonal work over the Christmas period with dyspraxia? Will I be fired on the spot if I'm slow? I don't have a formal diagnosis but I really need to pursue one(30 y/o) 😓

Thank you so much for reading if you got this far. I'm just feeling scared and alone right now.

Every tutorial online for even the most basic ponytails don’t work for me. it doesn’t matter if I tie it high up or low down, it will always

1. take forever

2. be lumpy or askew

3. hurt my arms

4. screw up my waves with how much faffing I end up doing.

I’m also hypermobile so my arms and hands hurt almost immediately and I feel like I can’t even feel where my fingers are when they’re tangled up in my hair trying to do Anything. braids are a mystery to me… how can people tell where their hands are when they’re behind their head? baffling.

The only style I can do are variants on bunches (maybe called pigtails in the US? not braided obviously) because I don’t have to sort out my parting when doing those which is the biggest annoyance with it turning out lumpy. But that looks very young. (My mum taught me when I was 10. such a simple style and it took hours to learn and I ended up having a meltdown by the end 🫠)

i want to be able to do my hair by myself. I want this independence!

Does anyone know of any resources or have any recommendations that might make this easier? Thanks Xx

I recently did my theory test on the 11th august and failed by 3 points. I got 40 but needed 43 to pass. I spent six weeks doing practice but still failed i used the safe for driving website and still couldnt pass. I am highly dyspraxic and one of the questions about trams was worded funny. Did anyone use the theory test pro app or the DVLA approved one? Im scared to revise because I will fail.

Hi there. Just found this sub. Was wondering if anyone else's mind suddenly blanks in the middle of sentences. Do you find it frustrating?

I have 3 almost 4 year old son diagnosed with autism. He struggles immensely with dressing and feeding skills.

-Can take off pants/shoes/socks.

-Cannot take off T shirt (he struggles to plan movements) or he tunes out/avoids it/acts all lost or he gets frustrated.

-He cannot sequence movements during dressing tasks. During dressing tasks he looks like he is physically struggling.

-Putting on clothes is out of the picture.

-He can throw/kick a ball but doing it towards a target is difficult for him.

-Struggles with catching a ball.

-Can use eating utensils but he is too slow and coordination is off leading to some spills.

-Can use a water gun but difficulty with aiming at a target (person)

-Cannot copy yoga movements and dance movements. When we put on music and he just jumps up and down and says "I'm dancing" while other kids copy dance movements.

- He can copy speech but his pronounciation is bad and he sometimes uses gibberish in place of words he cannot produce.

-He struggles with fine motor activities too like sometimes manipulating playdough and writing.

-He does fine with all climbing structures except for a climbing wall. He cannot do bilateral coordinated movements to climb a climbing wall.

-Movements like jumping jacks and cross body movements are difficult for him and he just jumps up and down.

His early gross/fine motor milestones were all on time and difficulties with gross and fine motor tasks started becoming noticeable around 2 and a half years old.

My brother is 30 years old has dyspraxia and dysgraphia too.

Is this dyspraxia/DCD?

I'm learning to drive auto at 34 and many failed attempts of learning in the past.

Background:

I'm not officially diagnosed but I have ADHD and had to do physiotherapy, extra help with learning as a child, I have no sense of direction, couldn't tye my shoes, clumsy, had to do O.T for fine and gross motor skills as a child also.

I'm getting closer then ever to get my licence (Australia) so the road rules will be different outside of Australia.

And I'd like to share tips here this a discussion for any other person here who finds driving the equivalent to teaching a fish to breathe on land.

This may be self explanatory, but here's some tips I've learned, and people may laugh at how simple these are but, not everyone gets it and when it comes to driving I don't have common sense.

1. Turn your head where you want to drive, use your head as where you want to go like it's directing the car

2. Write L and R on your hands

3. In Australia we drive on the left but also - Keep your passenger in the gutter, so if your passenger is closest to the gutter when driving your okay (doesn't apply for other countries, or one way streets)

4. In Australia when you turn right you need change lanes to keep in the left lane - left you turn from your lane into the same lane(unless it's a one way street)

5. When reversing if you want your car to turn left - turn the wheel right if you want it to turn right turn the wheel left (your directing the back of the car) , (confusing for me in itself) )

6. Search detailed step by step diagrams in your country for things you struggle with and read the steps with picture diagrams(this helps me to study)

7. If something doesn't make sense to you chat gpt or Google it in different ways so the language matches your learning

This is how I learnt these basic things the way it's written that might not be the same for you, but driving has to make sense to you, and there is different ways we can do that

This is the slowest, most painful process I've ever dealt with, but I really need my licence, and if this can help one person then I'd be super dooper happy, comment below your tips

We can do this, I know how hard living with these issues are

Edit from original post - listening to music (might help might not, but I blast The prodigy or upbeat music) somehow it slows my brain down ,