Dyspraxia and Asperger's

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I have a friend who is asking about the similarities and differences between Asperger's and Dyspraxia.
My mind has gone blank!
Can anyone help please?

Erm... the intense interests which you get upset about if unable to persue?

My stupid wooly head.

I thought Dyspraxia was to do with the brain scrambling stuff relating to speech etc. Can't say I'm an expert on it, so I'd suggest you Google it.

Dyspraxia is the whole bodily coordination thing.

I've got it fairly mild... but I can't catch any balls thrown at me. I was always useless at PE in that respect.
My spacial awareness is fine. I mean I used to have this really annoying habit of suddenly, out of nowhere, rushing someone and going like I was punching them in the face... but stopping my hand about a centimetre off their skin, pausing, and withdrawing with a smirk. A lot of people got REALLY annoyed about my violating their personal space like that, but they were just hypocrites as they violated mine in other ways.

But despite being able to do that, I could never catch a rugby ball thrown at me, and only rarely manage it with a basketball. I'd just fumble at it and it would slip between my fingers. I mean, I could PUNCH it if necessary, but not catch it.
Not only that, but my writing ability is alarmingly poor compared to my typing. I have a typing speed of around 120 words per minute, but my writing speed is a meagre 16wpm. That is what got me the dyspraxia mark and extra time for exams.
I've slipped up in certain games for similar reasons because my fingers seem not to do what I am trying to make them do. It has got better though. Playing a lot of games and playing catching games with things has made me better at it.

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As far as I know dyspraxia is clumsiness. Its when you want or have to something but don't know how to do it or where to start and have trouble coordinating your movements. I may be wrong though...

just google it

soti you bet me too it

I used to be rubbish at games as well. Catching, throwing, kicking balls - you name it. I got better though in recent years. My boyfriend took a lot of time and patience teaching me how to kick a ball. Takes a lot of focus and technique

I'm still really clumsy though, dropping things or running into stuff.

Dispraxia is common among persons with ASD's
I am notoriously clumsy & can't catch, except sometimes on a freak occasion when I'm not thinking about it
My work colleagues always take the Michael!

I've always been very clumsy and physically awkward. People even notice that I walk funny. I've been diagnosed with dysgraphia but I'm quite convinced I have out-and-out dyspraxia.

One of the biggest differences I can see (on very limited research, so it is just my impression) is that a child can potentially "outgrow" dyspraxia or at least dyspraxic traits (key word being "potentially"). You don't outgrow AS. Dyspraxia can exist singly or can co-exist with/crossover on AS.

my dyspraxic crossover traits include the clumsiness, ambidexterity and shifting dominance handedness. I prefer to type - I can write, but legibility has always been a problem (earliest detentions involved penmanship, and I received extra homework with same) and I prefer to type.

Like I say, that is a laypersons impression.

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I am more than clumsy. I have such severe co-ordination problems I cannot drive a motor vehicle and am very slow in jobs that require physical movement. My typing is extraordinarily slow and I cannot multitask. These difficulties have rendered it impossible for me to hold down a paying job as I am not an asset to business, and I have been terminated from most jobs for this reason. I cannot co-ordinate my body with a machine.

The other terminations were layoffs and plant closings.

I am just glad that none of my children have this.

Thanks for the replies.
So dyspraxics don't tend to have social difficulties at all?
I've tried to google it but haven't come up with anything useful. I'm not very well at the moment so that's not helping.

Hmmm I wonder if I have dyspraxia. I am horribly clumsy and sucked in gym class so bad that the other kids made fun of me. It was a pretty bad experience for me. I've gotten some better over time, but my husband is constantly talking about what a clutz I am.

Common comorbid, yeah.

A lot of us have subclinical dyspraxia--just being bad at sports, being a bit uncoordinated, but not so much so as to actually be diagnosed. A smaller fraction have clinical dyspraxia--the kind where you're constantly dropping things, bumping into things, getting into accidents, tripping over your own feet... I see it a lot more among Aspies than among neurotypicals. It's even part of the geek stereotype.

I wonder sometimes whether my clumsiness just has more to do with spending all my time reading while I was growing up, though; maybe the relevant parts of the brain never had enough practice to keep me properly graceful.

I've only read this on Wikipedia, but it said dyspraxia also includes the sensitivies to textures/smells/etc.

I just picture myself constantly tripping, knocking into things (I've gotten laughed at more than once at work for hitting into these stupid side-wings on a frequent basis), can't throw well, can't catch well, not that this necessarily means I have dyspraxia but I know I am really really clumsy and clutzy.

I think I have it. When I remember some kids from school days, I think one or two of them had it too.