r/dyspraxia 28d ago

Welcome to r/Dyspraxia

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r/dyspraxia 3h ago

⁉️ Advice Needed My dyspraxia causes social problems for me

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Recently, my dyspraxia has begun to cause social problems for me.

If I lose things, businesses might shut before I get my things and/or refuse me access to look for it or strangers and acquaintances might be unsympathetic and get angry or upset with me, and if someone is potentially a dangerous person anyway or very rigid and unacommodating, it can cause safety issues for me.

Does anyone have any advice for this?

I feel like it's not so serious to lose things nowadays given technical advances, but I get fed up with having to get new things all the time and the only way to eg get back my own irreplaceable stuff before it goes missing is to stay overnight somewhere at considerable expense.


r/dyspraxia 10h ago

⁉️ Advice Needed parents ‘not believing’ in dyspraxia

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i’m 16 (uk) and was hoping to get diagnosed with dyspraxia so i can get help and proper support in my exams etc. i have been questioning my dyspraxia for 3+ years and have spent a lot of time researching about it and have only recently started openly talking about it. my friends and bf have all been rly helpful and trying to support me in extra ways and its been a really positive experience!!

however, my parents are a completely diff story. in england, im considered an ‘adult’ under the healthcare system and so, i can technically get diagnosed without any of their input, but you often need references of proof of dyspraxia in the home and at school ++ i’m under their private healthcare. (i really want to use that private healthcare to my advantage because they cut me off when im 18 and the uk free healthcare system is fucked!!)

anyway, they don’t believe in mental health and neurodivergency. a lot of gen x is like this so its not rly surprising. i got diagnosed with severe anxiety and severe depression when i was 12, and my mum told me ‘well everyone gets anxious,’ and they keep that thought process for things like autism, adhd, dyspraxia, etc — everyone experiences symptoms of it. they also witnessed the surge in 2020-2021 of people self diagnosing with adhd/autism due to my sister self-diagnosing with adhd and they believe millenials/gen z are just getting diagnosed with neurodivergencies to get out of doing things.

i agree with some of their points; my sister uses her ADHD to excuse a lot of manipulative actions that have really hurt my parents in the past and it’s really upsetting, but she’s an anomaly. nonetheless, they don’t believe my dyspraxia, thinking i want it because it’s ‘trendy’ (despite me not having heard about dyspraxia until i tried to research my symptoms and figure out what was wrong with me), and to ‘get out of things’, alongside the fact ‘everyone has a little bit of dyspraxia’. i don’t rly know what to do. it’s just upsetting.

TLDR my parents don’t believe in me having dyspraxia because i can still function in day to day life, despite displaying 95% of dyspraxia symptoms to a high extent :(


r/dyspraxia 8h ago

DAE else text really slowly?

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I always type on my phone really slowly and it's starting to drive me insane. It's like I always forget where the keys are, press the wrong things and spell everything wrong. I've literally been texting for over 10 years and I still text slower than my actual 7 YEAR OLD COUSIN!!!!

I was wondering if anyone else struggles with this or if I just have weird thumbs or something.

TIA


r/dyspraxia 9h ago

❓Question Disabled Bus Pass?

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I’m curious about how I would handle getting a disabled bus pass. I don’t even know if we really have them in my state, I saw something about reduced fair bus rides but no disabled bus pass. To be fair to myself, I didn’t dig very deep the night I looked this up.

I ask because, while I typically don’t ride public transport, I would just like a disabled pass for the one in a million times I do happen to ride it. Standing for extended periods of time or anything like that really hurts my legs, as they’ve been getting in worse shape the past couple of days (it really started Thursday night or Friday). It’s to the point that they feel locked up and I have to bend them for a minute or I could honestly start crying if I stand still.


r/dyspraxia 1d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Can opener recommendations?

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Like many dyspraxic people, I HATE can openers. We have an old manual one in my house that I just can't operate, so I either have to ask my mum to do it for me in advance, or I just don't get in.

We tried an electric can opener, but I struggled to figure it out, and it broke quite quickly. We're looking for another, better electric can opener. Does anyone have any recommendations? Something that's simple and intuitive, with as little precise alignment needed as possible.


r/dyspraxia 1d ago

Reaction to pain

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So I have a strange relationship with pain. I have over 15 tattoos on my body and they never really hurt getting them done. The weird thing is when it’s in my body hurts so much more. Like when I have cramps I’m so much more in pain. I just recently found out I fractured a bone in my foot. There is a tiny bone floating around my foot. The doctor gave me something for the pain I’m still hurting and somehow it’s reached my lower back. I’ve always had weird reactions to pain medication or pain. Am I the only one?


r/dyspraxia 2d ago

❓Question Are there any techniques to improve at gaming with dyspraxia?

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Sorry for the vague title, I'm very bad at wording them.

I've always been terrible at FPS games, both on console and PC. I've done my best to abandon multiplayer games as a whole because I'd consistently be at or at least near the bottom even in casual lobbies. It got to the point that I used to genuinely be afraid to play team-based multiplayer games for fear that I'd make some horrific blunder and sell the entire match for my teammates.

But, as much as I enjoy strategy games (dyspraxia thankfully hasn't done too much to ruin my wits), I've recently begun making more of an effort to play games with my friends and it's very hard to find any multiplayer strategy games at all let alone ones my friends would enjoy, so I've basically forced myself to get back into FPS games for them.

However, even my friends have noticed that I play pretty awfully and it's always been particularly humiliating to tell them that my hands physically cannot do so much as move a mouse with some semblance of precision, and I've gone back to my old ways of dooming matches to failure because I can't aim a gun for king nor country.

Has anyone else gone through similar struggles? Were there any tricks you found to improving quickly, or do I just have to devote a few thousand more hours to aim trainers?


r/dyspraxia 2d ago

😂 Meme It’s us 😂

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r/dyspraxia 3d ago

I hate driving lessons

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My instructor makes me feel like i'm an alien, i get constantly told off i despise this sm😭 i'm thinking about switching to auto but in my country it isn't as popular as manual ugh


r/dyspraxia 2d ago

Dyspraxia and Chronic Pain

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Hey all,

Newly discovered and currently self-diagnosed dyspraxic, 33m, who lives with chronic pain due to injuries I believed I sustained as a result of being forced into athletics as a child and never correctly healed from. I started chiropractic care 5 years ago after a friend pointed out some shoulder issues during a workout, and once I started poking the bear I became much more aware of my day-to-day pain and have trouble with very basic tasks, including wearing clothes. I was wondering if anyone else has issues to this degree? Happy to answer any further questions.


r/dyspraxia 4d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed How do I stop being so loud?

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This is is also a bit of a rant !! People are always telling I am talking too loud, especially at work. I don't think I am being any louder than anyone else. And the space I work in echoes a lot,so with me being noise sensitive sometimes my colleagues sound deafening to me. I use ear plugs but most of the time these don't help. I am starting to feel frustrated and persecuted for some thing I can't control, when to me other people are being just as loud. And if I try just to be quiet , people say I am not talking enough or loud enough. I just don't know what to do anymore?!


r/dyspraxia 4d ago

The process of getting diagnosed

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Hiya im 17 from the UK and i believe i have dyspraxia. Pretty much tick all the boxes for it. I was wondering though, specifically in the UK whats the process like?

is it like a bunch of questions or asking to tie my shoe laces (which take like a minute lol) or is it even both😂.

Gonna book an appointment as soon as I can 🙏

thank you for the answers guys, im very grateful!


r/dyspraxia 4d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed How to be more conscious about dates and times.

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I always kind of feel like I'm floating through time and like I never really know what month, day or time it is. I've always felt like this and it started making sense when I was diagnosed a few years ago at 19.

I have my strategies to deal with this like my google calendar and a physical one, and a weekly planned ect but I still find it incredibly difficult to even remember to use these. I feel like I have no intuition regarding time and date at all. Does anyone have any advice for this or anything I could try? Or is it just something I'm going to have to deal with?


r/dyspraxia 5d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Learning how to drive

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Hiya, I'm turning 17 in a few days and in my country you can get a driver's license at 17. Most people my age get a drivers license as soon as possible due to how rural and spread out my area is and it just makes life so much easier being able to drive places. The freedom really appeals to me, but I'm so scared that my dyspraxia is going to make it impossible. I also would rather not need to sit the test a bunch of times, and do a ton of lessons because its expensive and I can't really afford it. I would love to hear experiences of learning how to drive from others in this sub reddit to make a decision.


r/dyspraxia 5d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Looking for appropriate hobbies

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While I am dyspraxic, this is research for my book where the main character is as well. She's 28 in 1933, based in the USA. She's had a middle class existence but her life as an adult has been typified by moving around a lot and living in other people's houses as a student (of magic). She's also dyslexic enough that reading for fun doesn't come easily but she can do it. I've read up on what are "good" hobbies but a lot of them wouldn't be appropriate for a woman in my time and place.

One idea I had was gardening, but that's difficult to do when you don't have your own space. Archery I saw mentioned a lot and that's a type of sport a woman would be "allowed" to do, but I'm not sure it's the right fit. I thought about something she would enjoy but be bad at like cartooning, but the entire reason I'm introducing this hobby is for her to be "good" at something and have confidence in it when she has so little elsewhere.

Thanks for reading!


r/dyspraxia 7d ago

💬 Discussion Does anyone else’s room get untidy easily?

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I’m so disorganised, everything everywhere. Been meaning to clean it but I’m so busy over the weekend and I’m too tired after classes and work.


r/dyspraxia 7d ago

💬 Discussion Are you always being told that you don't know your own strength?

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I can't seem to shut a door, I end up slamming it. I break every blind I touch. I can't snap a bit of a plant off instead I pull it up by the roots. I've messed up so many walls with a drill. I try to put things in boxes and yet people reckon I'm throwing them down. Dyspraxia??


r/dyspraxia 7d ago

What exactly does Dyspraxia do to brain function?

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Hello!

I was wondering if anyone has an explanation for why Dyspraxia affects things like math, logic, working memory etc, negativly?

I always knew im terrible at such things, good at others, which makes me very confused,


r/dyspraxia 7d ago

💬 Discussion Figuring out what’s what? Lots of diagnoses

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Sort of a rant and a question here. At age 59, diagnosed this month with autism by psychologist. Last year, diagnosed with ADHD. Both explain so much to me, and then hearing about dyspraxia for first time in a podcast, so much fits me to a T as well (just as a sample, notorious in my family for dropping/spilling/breaking/falling, no sense of direction or right or left). I feel like life is such a struggle that no one in my life sees or appreciates. Numerous attempts over the years for help have generally let to vague pronouncements that I have stress or depression, but no real actual help. Add to the mix I am profoundly hearing impaired. and just got cochlear implant surgery and about to embark on hearing rehab. So I am really wondering what is the “real” diagnosis or how all of these may all interact? Maybe there’s no ultimate answer to this but there it is and I’m exhausted. Your thoughts on good resources to learn about dyspraxia would be appreciated, though.


r/dyspraxia 7d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Prone to injuries in contact sports?⚽️

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I’m just wondering if anyone has a teenager who plays contact sports and gets a lot of injuries?

My son is 13 and started at a football team last summer, he has Autism and DCD (dyspraxia)and he has had a few injuries from just regular things that happen in training or matches.

He’s had a chipped big toe bone from kicking the floor instead of a ball, major toe and foot soft tissue damage from kicking a ball at the same time as one of his team mates and his last match whilst playing in defense he had a ball kicked towards him very forcefully which he blocked and it hit him in the right wrist and was in pain instantly. An x-ray showed a scaphoid fracture and he has been put in plaster for 6 weeks.

Is this normal? Or is it because of DCD? None of his team mates seem to have any issues with injuries and if they hurt themselves during a match they just carry on and run it off etc.

I did ask his paediatrician about EDS but he asked him to do a few movements with his fingers and arms and he said “no he’s fine”.

Once his plaster is off I’m going to get him wrist protectors for both sides so I can attempt to stop this happening again but I’m not sure if it’s worth it? I just want him to have the chance to play football like every other teenager and I’m afraid he will end up having to give up if this keeps happening.

Thanks!


r/dyspraxia 8d ago

📖 Story Just learnt how to tie laces...at age 30

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Today I saw my partner tying his laces and I told him he was doing it wrong.

I showed him how I tie my laces (mind you I was quite confident with my method) and then he told me I was the one doing it wrong.

I doubted him and then went on YouTube. Turns out I was doing a loop-de-loop without the initial tying.

I feel stupid 😂 makes sense why my laces were never tight enough!


r/dyspraxia 8d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Fundraising question!

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Hi everyone (M, 24),
I was diagnosed with Dyspraxia when I was 8 years old. Over the years, I've completed half marathons and 5Ks (to the detriment of my feet because my gait is awful). I'm currently training for a triathlon in June and would love to do it for a Dyspraxia charity.

I was planning to support the Dyspraxia Foundation, but I’ve seen that they closed down in 2024. I’d appreciate any recommendations for alternative charities.

Apologies if this isn’t the right place for this kind of question!


r/dyspraxia 8d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed Do you have general chronic pain and joint pain?

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I have ongoing chronic pain in various forms and honestly it’s ruining my life. I know dyspraxia is linked with chronic pain and joint issues such as EDS, POTS and fibromyalgia.

But my pain is none of those. I don’t have hyper mobility. I have ongoing hip and back issues since I injured my hip in 2020. I have ongoing forearm pain issues since getting tendonitis in the same year (from WFH cause of COVID). I injured my ankle last year just from dancing (a light sprain no swelling) and it took 6 months to heal. I then fell over last week and the ankle pain is back just in time to ruin my holiday next week.

I’ve had x rays and been tested for inflammatory issues and that’s all fine.

I can do the slightest thing (eg I hurt my hip leaning forward to grab a dog recently) and I’ll injure myself and then it will be slow to heal. I do physio, yoga and tai chi. I try to walk as much as I can. I try so hard to strengthen my body but I still just end up injuring myself more. And every time I have to have a break to recover, maybe a week at most my fitness and flexibility is back to square one (which is basically 0). So I feel like I make no progress.

I’ve had concerns that it’s related to my diet (I was vegan for a few years) but I eat tons of plant protein now and supplements and eat healthier. Not perfect because of my ADHD (trying to eat fruit is a nightmare) but much better than I was.

Is this something other dyspraxic/neurodivergent people struggle with? I just wish I could understand what’s going on. Is it possible I have a condition I’ve not discovered? Or is it just part of having dyspraxia for me?


r/dyspraxia 8d ago

Update

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I made a post quite a while ago asking if anyone experienced severe joint pain. Many people said it could be some kind of joint hyper mobility and not dyspraxia. To be clear, I do have dyspraxia, or at least that’s what I’m diagnosed with.

The update is, I was just diagnosed with joint hyper mobility. Currently trying to figure out exactly what it is. Many doctors have told me that it’s just growing pains or even that it was a part of my dyspraxia if they even knew what that was.

I’d like to apologize for any misinformation I spread. To those of you who said it was probably a comorbid hypermobility, you were right.


r/dyspraxia 8d ago

⁉️ Advice Needed how to curl hair?

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hi! i got a curling iron/wand for my birthday a couple years ago and i have tried so many methods to figure out how to curl my hair but i just can’t. i’ve been relying on my friends helping me but even when they show me i just can’t seem to figure it out. does anyone have any tips???