Dyspraxia

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Forgive me if this is in the wrong place, but I'd like to know more about it.
Any aspies here who have it?

My psychiatrist thinks I have it as well as AS of course, but I was wondering, do you ever get it as a seperate diagnoses? Or if you have many of the symptoms, is it just considered part of AS?

Also, I'm curious, like AS normally presents itself differently in women, is that true for dyspraxia? Its probably not, but I'm just curious.

I definatly relate to a lot of the symptoms... but then many seem to overlap with AS anyway, so would you actually have it as a seperate diagnoses?

Anyway, if anyone can give me links to good sites on this subject, or indeed past topics that would be great!

Charlie

I have dyspraxia. The symptoms are the same for both genders, however boys do generally have it worse than girls. It does quite often coinside with AS and learning difficulties and merits a separate diagnosis. If you type dyspraxia into google it pops up with lodes of articles and information. hope that helped.

Sometimes, when something is a very common occurance with a disorder, professionals do not do a formal separate diagnosis. (e.g some 80% of individuals with AS have motor difficulties). Labels are just that, labels, and it up to the individual professional whether they believe it is beneficial to put a co-morbid condition as part of a syndrome or as a seperate diagnosis.

For instance, I have anxiety and panic attacks, but because I already have Asperger syndrome, I was not given the separate label of generalized anxiety disorder.

The AS community is a very diverse one. The main purpose of labels is to provide access to certain services.

Ok sorry I wasn't clear. Professionals only usually give the diagnosis of dyspraxia on top of AS if it is severe enough to merit another professional or educator being aware of it. For example if a Physical education teacher is not that familiar with AS and therefore not aware of some of the spatial difficulties faced by AS individals then a separate diagnosis of dyspraxia will highlight some of these problems.

I think that's clear, I'm not sure.

Yea, that makes sense, maxi321! Thank you!

Thank you for your input guys, I've found quite a bit of info on google actually. But yea, if anyuone knows a particular site, then please post it! It's very interesting.

Charlie

I think I have it. But more fine motor than gross motor. I dont fall down a lot but I used to accidentally break things with my hands all the times when I was a kid. I had very poor handwriting and could not catch a ball.

This is a good site:

http://www.dyspraxicadults.org.uk/forums/

Also there is an excellent book on Dyspraxia called Caged in Chaos by Victoria Biggs - i would really recommend reading it.

There is another book called Living with Dyspraxia by Mary Colley that is also good.

They are published by Jessica Kingsley publishers who have LOADS of differnt books about autistic spectrum conditions, dyslexia, dyspraxia etc.

http://www.jkp.com/

Dyspraxia is very common in Aspies as far as I know.

I have it and I think I have a separate diagnosis (not sure, though, I do remember seeing something about it before on a report though) because I walk funny and I can't write properly (I use a laptop in classes).

Discoordination topic

For me this means there is a disconnect between intended action and the result. This is why I cannot drive a car and use some electric hand tools. It also involves understanding what to do, and not being able to practice it.

It was a very difficult diagnosis to get, at least in my case.

I was looking over my old occupation assessment, and saw that dyspraxia was mentioned, along with adhd dyslexia and dyscalculia.
Anyhow my muscle tone is terrible which isn't helping with getting around and I have been thinking that is may be that I have hypotonia, so we bought an elliptical trainer to get my sorry ass feeling and moving better, I was dying after my first 5 minutes on it this morning.

I have asd and dcd. Dr says its only second time hes seen it. He is a GP that only deals with asd clients. He has asd himself.
I recommend people find a dr on the spectrum they are so easy to deal with.
I feel so lucky finding this dr after 57 years of banging my head on a rock.
Twelve yrs with an un treated broken wrist and they think I should have talked about autism. Haha