Secondary dyspraxia?

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Does "secondary dyspraxia" have some established meaning? It was used in relation to motor coordination and planning of complex movement sequences, overlapping with executive function.

I can't find anything on the web or in journals with that term, and I wonder if there is a more common term?

I've heard of dyspraxia, but never secondary dyspraxia.

Maybe they mean "dyspraxia, secondary to autism." Although that would mean that the dyspraxia is *caused* by the autism, rather than just being a common comorbid. Maybe it just means that the primary diagnosis is autism, but there is also a secondary diagnosis of dyspraxia.

Can dyspraxia be intermittent? When I focus on something like surfing or skate boarding I do quite well. But when I am focused on other things, I am clumsy, and bump into walls.

I don't know that "focus" is supposed to improve dyspraxia though. Actually, automatic tasks (tasks you are not paying attention to) are supposed to be easier for dyspraxics/apraxics. The more someone with dyspraxia/apraxia has to focus on/think about the task, the more difficulty they will have. What is more likely is that you have "over-learned" the movements in skateboarding and surfing, so that your body is making automatic adjustments without you thinking about it.

My problem tends to be with ideomotor dyspraxia, which could be called "secondary" by a person with insufficient understanding of it.

Dyspraxia has two steps. 1) Can you determine what you want to do? Can you visualize it, tell somebody about it, plan the movement, etc... Full blow autism usually fails at this point, called. Senior moment here. Relational Dyspraxia maybe?

The second step is the ideomotor point. Once you know how to move to accomplish a goal, can you do it? Aspies tend to have problems here. We know how to pick up a glass, but when we move we, get distracted seems to be what happens to me. So I bump into things a lot, knock things over, trip over my own feet, etc...

What's interesting is that my dyspraxia goes away completely when I can not visually see the body part I'm moving. I use to do this as a type of parlour trick. If I put a dog-cone around my neck so I can't see my hands, I can toss a ball (or anything) into the air and I'll catch it 97 in 100 tries without seeing my hand. If I can see my hand, I catch less than half the time. Same with balance. If I can see my feet, I'll fall off a 4" wide piece of lumber while walking along it. If I can't see my feet, just a line where the lumber goes too, I can walk it flawlessly.

The input from my eyes of what I'm doing confuses my mind and prevents me from doing it correctly. Without my eyes, my spatial thinking controls my motor movement instead and viola - no problems.