Dyspraxic Adults

No. My blood pressure is typically OK. Like, my first guess is it’s an unusual presentation of sleep paralysis? But the accompanying mind sensation is unpleasant and familiar. In the very rare instances I have experienced (confirmed) sleep paralysis, it’s felt completely different, and not at all rel ...

Long shot, but I wanted to see if this struck a chord with anyone. Something that has happened to me all my life very very intermittently with no explanation, but too seldom and short lived to make a note of it or explain it to anyone. So this usually happens in the middle of the night while dozing ...

I split games into two categories: Games that appeal to my dispraxic mind: I find JRPG’s, turn based games, sorting, strategy, tactics, Puzzle games, point and click games. They have challenge, but the challenge isn’t motor function based so it doesn’t feel frustrating and alarming. These kinds of ga ...

I find just keep at it, as in, don’t use text to speech. In more detail, I guess what I mean is; A. Accept you will have errors B. Doing it every day keeps your practice up. You can get your typing/tapping/handwriting to a “B+” and keep it there by doing it a lot. I find Grammarly is nice for helpi ...

The cruellist bit of dispraxia is how much it creates and amplifies suffering and anguish in you yourself.

It’s like if you made a list of every person you accidentally let down or unintentionally hurt, you yourself would be high up on that list.

It isn't pleasant and I'm not going to use Dyspraxia as a shield to protect me from blame but it has helped at least explain why I'm like that. I find this is something non Dispraxic people struggle to comprehend, and therefore throw it back at you. It’s about needing people to understand why it h ...

Is this thread suitable for male perspective also, or were you hoping for female only? (I will of course respect the intended theme)
I’m a gay male.

Hy just reading some of these points. I wanted to add that I am convinced there is Dyspraxia specific difficulty or difficulties dispraxic people have in keeping friends, and that that is distinct from the social issues and difficulties accounted for by Autism, ADHD etc. I’ve read and experienced t ...

I take a long piece of floss. (four times longer then I will need). I fold it in half (so now it's two strands) Then I find the middle of this "double strand" I put my index finger on the middle then I twist my finger around it several times, like I'm tying to "hang" my index finger. I wrap the ...

I love cooking, and I am quite good at it. My one tip for Cooking with Dyspraxia is; Do not trust your sense of timing. Keep a timing app, or an analog timer while you work. Use it for your pasta, your roasting, your grilling etc. It'll improve your results and improve your well-being immensely. Me ...

I spent my entire childhood on a bike. I'm as comfy cycling as I am walking. That said I would hate to be learning to ride now. I would be dreadful, also, as a kid, my sisters took the best part of a day each to learn to ride. I took several weeks/months, to the point where one day my mum — well-m ...

Oh I basically just avoid caffeine almost completely. If it’s after mid day; no coffee, if it’s after six; no tea.

I broke my back in previous years and I have two perpetually bulging discs in my lumbar region.

When I stopped working during lockdown my back became extremely weak and for a spell I was unable to stand up or get out of bed for pain. I learned how crucial it was to keep active.

In my experience, an Occupational Therapist is exactly the kind of person you need. That’s how I got diagnosed.

I was actually quite relieved to discover that people with dispraxia sometimes experience insomnia for… no apparent reason. It just happens. I have definitely had stress and anxiety in the past, and I have definitely had trouble sleeping with that. But—and this is the important bit—I have also had in ...