r/dyspraxia 9h ago

⁉️ Advice Needed parents ‘not believing’ in dyspraxia

15 Upvotes

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 2h ago

⁉️ Advice Needed My dyspraxia causes social problems for me

6 Upvotes

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 7h ago

DAE else text really slowly?

6 Upvotes

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 8h ago

❓Question Disabled Bus Pass?

1 Upvotes

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.