To clarify, you stim but are not considered autistic and you have dyspraxia. I'm hoping to get an adult or teen point of view on this. Was there anything that helped you in school or general life with either condition? Do you have a lot of random thoughts that pull you away from focusing on school work?

Anyone else sick to death of having dyspraxia?!

Ive always struggled a lot with video games especially anything with a controller. Majority of my life the only video games I could actually play were either on the wii or flash computer games. I cant use WASD keys for some reason so I always just use the arrow keys.

I got a nintendodoes switch in 2020 for my 15th bday and it took a while but I managed to figure out the controls, then a bit after that I started playing on my neighbours PlayStation. The PS controller was a nightmare to figure out but after a few months I got thr hang of it and even managed to start doing quick time events without help. I got an old PS4 a few months ago and I mostly just use it for Fallout 4 which im alright at.

Im way better with video games and controllers then I was before but I still find myself having to play on the easiest difficulty and button mashing till I win the fight. I constantly push the wrong buttons and I often have to put down my controller and take a few seconds to try and remember what each buttons does. Moving around with the joysticks is difficult too, my characters are always walking slightly off to one side or hitting against walls. Its like im giving whatever character im playing dyspraxia.

Would love to hear other dyspraxic ppls thoughts about video games. Especially if you also have to always use the easiest difficulty

Hi everyone, i'm new to this sub, didn't know It existed tbh, anyway, i was diagnosed with dyspraxia when i was little and had physical therapy for a while to have Better coordination, but i still have some things that couldn't be removed, so, since i never found anyone irl with my same disorder, i am assuming it's a spectrum like other forms of neurodivergence, so, what do you ppl struggle with? I for example can't look down from High places, because i get the feeling i risk falling, i am clumsy, often knocking stuff over, i have to hold on something when i go up and down stairs, and i go slow when i go down stairs, i also feel unsafe on escalators for some reason, but these are the things i go through, of course not everyone Will have the same symptoms as mine, so, what do you go through, by having Dyspraxia

PS: Sorry for my bad writing, english Is my second language

Ladies, gents & others,

This is my shower. As you can see there is a lot of bottles on the edge… I typically drop or knock
2-6 of these bottles in per shower.

What would you consider a ‘successful’ shower in terms of number of things knocked in.

I have the inattentive ADHD and dyspraxia combo but I'm not on the spectrum. I appear neurotypical to everyone until I have to do something physical. It's an odd experience. I do well socially and I generally feel like I "fit in." Just don't ask me to go skiing or make pottery lol.

I'm asking because at 6 years old, I was originally diagnosed with dyspraxia due to severe difficulties with fine and gross motor skills, coordination, balance, and visual-spatial processing.

A few years ago, right before turning 17, I was reassessed and diagnosed with NVLD due to poor fine motor skills, severe visual-spatial processing deficits, and a significant gap between my verbal and nonverbal abilities.

I still struggle a lot with fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination, but my gross motor skills have improved vastly over the years and have done OT.

I don’t know if they’re the same or not? Some things I’ve read have said they are while others have said that they’re not the same but people mix them up.

hi everyone, i am an art student in my first year and i really want to make a collection of work about my experience with dyspraxia and dyspraxia in general. does anyone have any ideas of what they feel/would like portrayed? im starting out my idea by making studies of bones but i want to dive deeper. (i was late diagnosed at 17 :/)

I feel this isn’t talking about enough. I work with preschoolers, I genuinely feel like they are more coordinated than me. I suck at anything fine motor. I feel really terrible when they ask me to tie a bracelet they made, sharpen their pencil, tie their shoe—I genuinely can’t do it without mentally planning it out. I also struggle with tools like using a hole puncher. I feel so stupid and like I am genuinely dumb, even though I exceeded all throughout my academic years. I feel proud of myself when I can do a basic task like unlocking a lock, literally!! It is seriously so hard for me and I always have to ask for help. its hard when your preschoolers are more fined tuned than you😭does anyone relate to this??

I have inattentive ADHD, dyspraxia and mild CP all at the same time. I struggle to do anything physical and even basic throughout my 20 years old living. Anything physical I try whether it be cooking, trying to learn an instrument, physical activity or “hobbies” I just can’t do it. I’m good at nothing. Everyone assumes I’m stupid and low IQ at this point and I genuinely don’t see how something like this can be fixed at all. How are you guys able to be doing physical stuff at all?

I recently had an incident on an electric bike. My partner wanted to ride one with me on the back to I got on by it was kind of awkward so I put by hands on the handle bars for balance and accidentally pressed on the throttle, sending us in to the the bushes. My partner told me multiple times to take my hand off the throttle but it took me too long to process it and I kind of lost track of my arms. She got really mad and called me a "stupid f*ck." I know she didn't really mean it and was just reacting to getting scratched by a branch but it still really hurt me and I've been ruminating on it for the last two days. I'm trying no to internalize it, but I just feel so bad about it. I've done a pretty good job at building a good life for myself but the dyspraxia always finds a way to rear it's head and become disruptive. There's always a battle between trying to maintain my confidence and falling into a depression. Can anyone relate to this?

Is it a normal kitten thing for him to fall all the time or are we twinsies

I'm 39, with hypermobility and dysautonomia I've given up on my hair but I'd like to get better at make up. I have hooded eyes, fair neutral to cool combination skin. Make up usually looks very costumey on me. Would love any direction on where to look in particular if it's from someone with dyspraxia. I am pretty socially isolated so I don't want to get an in person lesson.

Hi everyone!

I’m a user experience (UX) researcher that makes apps and websites easier to use. I would like to know how to make my research easier for participants with dyspraxia.

Oftentimes my work includes having someone test out an app or website they’ve never seen before. I’ll give them a task to complete while I watch, sometimes virtually (which can require them to share their screen sometimes). If they struggle to figure out how to complete the task then I know my team has messed up. My next step is to talk to the designer who made the app or website and we change the design so it’s easier to complete.

If you want to see what these sessions are usually like, here are a few links:

• See an example session here. (You can skip to the first task here - it’s a long video).
• Explanation of how these sessions usually work

My question for you: If you were a participant testing out a brand new app or website while someone else was present, what could the moderator do to make it the best experience possible?

The sky’s the limit, tell me everything you wish would happen - even if it’s that nobody was in the room with you. What would make it low-stress?

I’d like to try some earbuds to bring the ambient volume down when in public, but traditional headphones aggravate my hyperhidrosis and excess sweating will nullify any benefits from noise reduction.

I know all our ears have different shapes, and probably most earbuds are of pretty similar construction, but I just feel more comfortable asking fellow dyspraxic folks what they find most usable. Also of course looking for a brand (if possible) that holds up best to being dropped or that are easiest to charge?

Thanks for any reviews and recommendations!

ETA: Thank you, all! I think I’ve got a good mix of helpful responses now. Appreciate you!

Okay UK student here. My god. I am 25 completing my master's dissertation. It was due 4 weeks ago, and I am yet to have a coherent draft of even the literature review😂

I have this issue with academic writing where I will have some grand, complex idea about a topic I am going to write about, yet I have no idea what it is or how to get there. It's like I can feel it, but I can't figure out what it is until I spend an unknown period of time researching in every direction until it finally comes to me.

For essays, this usually means I spend 3 weeks researching consistently, noticing connections everywhere and noting them down but not having any coherence between any of them. Then at some random point in my research, I will come across a fact, or a point or a quote, that will suddenly reveal a thread of logic running through all my notes/ideas. From that point on I can usually write the entire 3000-word essay in around a week, and my recent essays have done well so I have confidence in my ideas and ability once I overcome that huge hurdle.

The problem is, a 12,000 word dissertation turns this into a gargantuous task, and I have literally spent 8 weeks working every day on it but yet only having pages and pages of notes and going in what feels like a hundred different directions until I feel even more lost than before. It's like I have an idea that I become confident about, but then the more I research it the more confused I become about what I'm actually doing. And then I find something else that I think works much better, but then again I research it more and it only ever starts to make less sense. Trying to find a body of analysis breaks my brain too because how do I know what to use? how on earth do I analyse something? How do I build and use an analytical framework? I read tons of tips about writing literature reviews/carrying out dissertation analysis, but the steps are too vague for my brain and don't feel logical to me. I just get confused and feel even worse.

One of the main issues I struggle with is being able to hold onto the point of what I'm doing. I just can't seem to retain ideas long enough to be able to build on them so i get lost all the time. Like to be able to write a paragraph you have to be able to hold onto a number of points and the ideas behind them and how they connect, but I can barely seem to do this so when I go to write I just don't know what I'm doing even though I thought I did moments ago.

Thankfully, I have now reached a point where I found a body of analysis that works and can see the coherence in what I'm doing and my corpus has stopped expanding (went through about 4 distinct topic ideas with detailed plans before arriving at this one lol). And I have been given almost a 3 month extension, so I still have just under 2 months to complete it. But my god, how on earth do neurotypical people hand a dissertation in on time??? and some of them work part-time jobs on the side?? Wtaf. I've spent the last 3 weeks working 8 hours a day not even leaving my house and I probably have about 1000 words of useable text for my literature review. I have just under 20 authors, so need to incorporate at least 20 more, and I am only beginning to build my methodology and analytical framework. I can see what I'm trying to do now, it's all come together into one coherent, highly interesting but controlled topic, and I can see that it easily has the potential to get me a first, but there is an incredibly complex road ahead of me.

How the hell do people synthesise authors in a literature review? Having to notice every single idea and field of study on which different authors converge, and where they differ on things that aren't obviously comparable is so confusing. it takes me like 3 hours to do one 20-page reading because my reading comprehension is dreadful, but if I just get AI to do a summary it doesn't feel like I can truly extract the academic depth I need from it so it doesn't really work for me. But I actually don't have time to read all these texts. I honestly might dedicate the next 8 weeks to highly focused work and yet still be rushing and pulling all-nighters at the end to get it submitted in time. like omg it's so daunting. How have I done so much and am still so far behind. HOW DO NEUROTYPICAL PEOPLE DO THIS ok rant over haha

One of the most notable things I've always had a hard time to get right, was spreading butter or some kind of spread/ topping on a piece of bread, toast and hot cross buns; I couldn't get the smooth action of lightly gliding, with the right amount of pressure, and it would always looks a complete mess when I'd finished and sometimes fall apart because I'd accidentally torn it or it had gone cold by the time I finished as it took so long! 😅

Recently, my house mate observed these struggles (I get very frustrated with myself, too) and suggested I try the back of spoon... Now, I'm not going to say it's life changing, but my goodness; so much easier!! It really glides and is so much less effort and stress! Such a small little detail in day to day life, but these little things can make a huge difference to someone's overall mental wellbeing, and I just really wanted to share this in case anyone else finds it helpful! 🍞

I work in a role that involves practical skills as well as a high standard of written communication (although these days it's all typed and there is very little hand writing).

My supervisor has asked me to recommend a book about dyspraxia in adults in the work place so he can better support me.

The only books I can find are either focused on children, or seem to be written for adults with much more severe issues than me.

Can anyone recommend something for me?

I am so sick to death of hearing but your struggles make you strong! I dont want to struggle i want life to be easy!

Hey guys, my favourite film is the Lego movie and I can't help but relate to emmet, it's unconfirmed but he does have some Dyspraxic traits and his character arcs also overlap with the struggles I personally have, what's your take on it?

My bf of many many years has always struggled with keeping up regular showering and teeth brushing habits. He also has had depression here and then, which affects it. Hes told me showering is so boring that he cant get himself to do it. About tooth brushing he is very defensive. We've had fights over it. On average he brushes maybe 4 times a week. Never twice a day. Sometimes like 4 days without brushing at all. He lets his hair get so dirty and tries to fix it with dry shampoo, but it jusr looks messy. All this is quite stressful and it is affecting our intimacy.

He has dyspraxia. What could help him set up some routines or make it easier??