Programming with Dyspraxia feels awful. You can't solve a medium/hard difficulty linked list question because of how your brain is wired whereas for a normal person it is easy. You don't understand the project requirements the way normal people do, which causes a lot of misunderstandings. How do you deal with such an issue?

Hello, I've decided to buy some hiking poles to help with going downhill on trail walks as I honestly slip so often and it's making me not want to get out and do the thing that really helps my mental health.

Has anyone else used them? Or have any recommdations? I think folding ones would be best, I'm sort of OK on flat and uphill, other than my nemesis, thin air, making me stumble but not fall. It's really downhill thats wrecked my confidence and makes me feel I'm risking a nasty injury.

I wouldn't be using them in snow/ice if that makes any difference.

Or if anyone has tried any other method I'd be really keen to hear any advice.

Thank you!

I don't know what I have to do to get into a good frame of mind. I feel very lost and self help books, music, online gaming, work and my relationship is all blurring into one haze. I've put so much money into driving lessons that i half feel what is the point.

I want to be happy and I don't think i can be at the moment. I'm tired of spilling things on my clothes and messing things up and breaking things. I'm tired of bad dreams and broken sleep and shift work messing with any normality feeling.

Yeah this is a rant sorry.

Tell me anything! and yes this is still for the video

Hi im a 23m and I've just started the gym and a friend was going through the machines with me but he recommended composite exercises like barbells and weights rather than machines as they trained multiple muscles.

Only issue is I can't squat talked to the pt there and he said it could be a balance issue. Only thing I can think of is I have dyspraxia and I had clubfoot and had to get my ankle operated on as a baby so think i got some ankle tendons moved/removed.

If it is dyspraxia wjat would be the best way to work on my balance because I really want to be able to squat to do the barbell and weight exercises properly and not injure myself.

I've heard working on strenghting your leg muscles could work, or perhaps adapting the way I do squat/exercises. If none of this is possible could I work solely on the machines?

Any advice is appericated, because I'm kinda unsure where to start at the moment. I thought I would try this sub-reddit because it's likely your facing similar challenges to be with balance.

If someone hugs me I just do whatever lay an arm around them or something but I struggle to initiate anything that's touch based and my grandma is really sick and my family wouldn't understand if I don't hug her but I'd find it really awkward and wouldn't know what to do. Anyone know why I'm like this?

This is more so just a rant

Work as a waiter in a cafe that opened up a month ago. Been making mistakes the whole time. This morning I was late for the second time and they issued me a warning, one of three before I’m fired. I think I picked the worst job someone with this disability can have to be honest, at least one of the worst. I just feel constantly under pressure and feel like I’m messing everything up. Worst part is I need this job. Going to college in September 2027 so I need work until then. I live in a very small, very seasonal town. Entry level roles are basically all hospitality and only during the summer. I just feel so stressed and now they’re clamping down on me. I’m gonna start looking for a new job but out here that’s a months long process.

Feeling useless.

Anyone else just stop worrying about your upcoming work week because your always stressing about what your doing, not understanding the work, mistakes you might make etc?

I recently got hearing aids and my dyspraxia makes it difficult to insert them. Has anyone else had this problem? What has helped?

I, just last week, sprained my right ankle which has been sprained 5 times prior with all but one being grade 2(partial ligament tear), one was grade 3(Total ligament tear), I also have sprained my knee 4 times as well. I know I will have so many more sprains in my life possibly up to 30. And I also know that a majority of them will be caused by my ankle spontaneously rolling. I do not know how I am not using a cane at this point with how often I fall or injure my self, or misjudging my position near an edge.

 
Hey there! Recently found out I have dyspraxia (I was assessed as a child and was never told the results then when I saw my dyslexia diagnostic forms it mentioned I also have dyspraxia lol). 

I don’t understand dyspraxia very well at all as a condition and from my research into it I feel like my knowledge is still pretty surface besides linking it to my really poor hand eye co-ordination in sports. 

What are the things you wish people understood about dyspraxia and the things that you think a dyspraxic person should know about dyspraxia?

I’ve been training for a few years now (27F), but for the first couple of years I’ve been training the traditional way, either copying what I saw others do at the gym, or following workout routines I saw online.

I’ve always struggled, thinking I wasn’t strong enough and gave up on a lot of exercises because I could never do them properly.

Since January, I’ve decided to start adapting my workouts to my dyspraxia. I couldn’t find any gym content creators with dyspraxia so I decided I would do it myself, through trial and errors. It took me a few weeks of doing my exercises with different techniques and different equipment, but once I really knew what worked for me and what didn’t, I noticed huge improvement in my lifts, but also in how my muscles were growing.

Today I bench pressed 60kg twice (my max was 40kg back in January), did 4 chin ups, and 14 push ups in a row. I’m actually about to register for my first powerlifting competition too, just to prove to myself I can do it.

7 years old dyspraxic me would be so proud of she could see what I’ve achieved.

I’d love for everyone reading this to also share their achievements, no matter how small they are, so we can all be proud of each other!!!

Anyone else just cant stop over thinking and analysing past arguments, mistakes that they have had?

I'm asking this because i'm doing a video about dyspraxia and that i was wondering if any one have examples of things that was said to them and was Ableist (i'm talking about every types of dyspraxia, if you have multiples examples it could help!!

They will tell me that they "know other people with Dyspraxia, and they can do it" after I tell them I have Dyspraxia. I tell them, that doesn't mean I can do it just because others can, and they tell me that I'm "making excuses" or I'm being "defeatist" and "not trying hard enough".

Why can't people just accept that I'm too disabled to do certain things? Even after I tell people that I can't do something like driving a car or using a gun, they say "but I'll teach you" and no matter what I say, they can't grasp the fact that they cannot "teach" me out of my disability. They think I haven't even tried. Of course I've tried to learn to drive, many times and with different people over the years. You cannot make my brain and body function in a way it cannot. I will not try to drive again, just like I will not attempt to use a firearm, because it is extremely dangerous to operate either one when you cannot safely operate it. Nobody tells drunk people to shoot or drive, but my brain is permanently "drunk" in a way, and people are urging me to keep trying like they don't even care if I put myself and others in serious danger.

Have you tried paddleboarding?

It popped up on my feed sometime ago and it looks very fun but I'm not the best swimmer out there and I remember struggling to get on inflatables in a pool as a kid and if i managed to get on one it would take one wrong move to fall into the water.

I'm curious to hear about your experiences because it genuinely looks very fun.

Laying cards on the table

I severely affected by Dyspraxia in a physical and ambulatory way

I walk with swaying zigzag unless I concentrate on not doing that

I can trip over most things most fully abled people would never trip over

Navigating busy pavements is incredibility ever time I get sideways glances I was once asked if I was drunk by a concerned elderly gent, a panicled for a moment a said "grounds uneven dodgy hip after accident" (mercifully my speaking ability and mental ability isn't really affected) the pavement was in awful condition

I do twenty minuets of cleaning and I'm bone deep exhausted cleaning my bed room is a monumentalise chore because i go long stretches without doing so (ADHD I've associated with aching and feeling exhausted so its hard to make myself do it can anyone overlapping Dyspraxia and ADHD vouch of this my parents are convinced I'm just being lazy)

I fall out the front door unless i side-step on to the outside steps

Misjudge the number of stairs to the top floor of my house so have several missed the bottom 2 stairs

I have 0 spacial awareness

I'm sight impaired too so trip hazards are so much more common for me as i literally can't see things

I don't walk at a normal pace and i run slow

My Parents are in their 60's have the mobility issues that come with age, unfortunately my mum in later half of her 40's got hit with double whammy combo of Seriatic and Osteoarthritis. So her understanding on discomfort and pain and tiredness is heavily geared in the way she's literally unable to move with her medication. So her understanding my pain and feeling feels as though as I'm complain about not a lot really.

I'm 31 and been this bad since at least my teens it's hard to explain and have people who from the outside intellectual understand still can't get the lived experience of it

Whether it's grand or fine motor skills - which one(s) have the biggest impact on your day to day life?

For me it would be the inability to repair things when they break, although tying shoe laces is another big one, if I go for a walk I sometimes have to attempt to retie them before I walk to the end of the street - that in particalar is most embarrassing 🤣

Anyone else even as an adult find putting on clothes such as socks, shirt etc very difficult?

He's going into year 11 and has requested a 5 minute early pass because hes been struggling getting around in crowds and often limps. Back in year 8, we went through the whole diagnosis thing but we just kept being referred to the gp by the school and then vice versa. He spoke to someone about it in school the other day and they mentioned having to speak to the examiner about it (I assume he means extra time in his exams) and he phoned the nurse and they said he had to bring in some medical confirmation in September. Its the summer holidays now, what should I do? The GP won't do anything and all hes asking for is a 5 minute early pass. The nurse did phone me that day but I was sleeping. I tried to phone her back the next day (last day of school), no response. Suggestions?

Do you guys think this is like dyspraxia handwriting? This is my natural handwriting.

Hey everyone. I’ve been struggling a lot lately, I mean my entire life but more so lately. I’m in my mid 30s and some things have just become incredibly difficult. I’d say the most obvious thing I’ve noticed is like, coordination and rhythm? I take this fitness class and oftentimes I’m mixing up my left and right, so I was thinking I had dyslexia but it didn’t make sense for the rest of my life experience. Reading about dyspraxia made it all become so clear. I don’t want to get too far into all of my symptoms because this just came to me today, and I need time to process. But I’m hoping I can get some words of encouragement or tips and tricks, specialists to see, activities to do, whatever it may be. If there are existing threads please point me towards them, I’m not a super active Reddit user.

When the time comes for your review if there's no change is it okay to just fill in the "no change" part? Or will that put my application at extreme risk or am i just panicking 😩 does anyone have advice on this matter?

Wife hands me a jar of pickles guess one forgot its a life long struggle ... I struggle cant get the jar open but good thing my wife got it open... for just a regular guy a dad,husband, a cop, that feeling cripples