Anyone else here with dyspraxia?

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I have pretty bad coordination problems.
of all the different stuff I have I might hate it the most.
I have the coordination of like a three year old. in another forum i'm
on we have a random question thread for whoever posts below you.
the person above asked "how often do you trim your finger nails?"
And i went ahead and answered that my mom did for me because I'm too clumsy.
I can't tie my shoe laces either. For some reason I can hunt and peck type okay.
But basically I am just really uncoordinated and unsteady. i drop and knock
over things all of the time. I get really sick of it.

yes me. As a toddler my dyspraxia was general: gross and fine motor
as I have grown it is only fine motor that I am slow in

I am 29 years old. I was never formally diagnosed with dispraxia or any motor trouble but my family and friends keep commenting that I move in a "childish" way all the time.

I walk a bit "weird", I am clumsy and I don't have any body coordination. I don't like dancing and I look ridiculous when I try (I am not the one saying it). My fine motor skills are mostly OK, I type fast, I use a soldering iron and other tools and I am quite good with them, etc. but my handwriting is terrible (this is probably also a consequence of having learnt mostly by myself) and tying my shoe lace is, if not a challenge, more difficult for me than for most other people. I have poor body and world awareness and often let things fall, trip over obstacles and stumble, or unwillingly touch or hit other people. I can often make up for it because I have very good reflexes ; often I will start falling or letting something go only to catch up at the last moment. As a result I rarely actually break things (or body parts) but I often look ridiculous.

The only thing I did that actually improved my overall motor capabilities is martial arts. It allows you to efficiently practice motor skills, coordination, balance and body control and immensely improved my abilities in some fields like body awareness and general balance. I think it was also instrumental in developing the quick and efficient reflexes that allow me to compensate for my general clumsiness. I would really recommend it to anyone with motor difficulties. The hardest part is finding a course with good teachers (for both technical and pedagogic aspects) and a relaxed and non-judgemental atmosphere, but it is not impossible.

I'm still not sure. Everyone says I walk weird and I wobble back and forth when I walk. And they also say I stomp when I walk around the house, or go up the stairs. I've taught myself to type extremely fast, but I still have trouble tying my shoes, so i just leave them tied and slide them on. I also have trouble balancing on one leg. My handwriting used to be terrible, it's still really bad. I played a lot of sports (by myself) such as shooting basketball. I used to have a giant imaginary basketball league in my head and I was the star player xD. So I'm good at basketball, but terrible at every other sport. Enough rambling, I would say I don't have enough to be diagnosed, but I'm definetly below average.

I did, especially when I was younger. I didn't learn to run properly until I was 15 years old because I couldn't.

That's all changed significantly lately. I have better balance, coordination, and motor skills than I've ever had in my life.

hi, i am suspected to have Dyspraxia

i couldnt use my hands very well when i was 2, i had trouble with forks, knives, scissors, and pencils and continued to have problems to this day. i cant tie my shoes and i cant hold things for very long. i still cant really hold a pencil properly. couldnt ride a bike till i was 9, it took 3 days to get the hang of it. cant skate or rollerblade, i cant use my hands genteelly. and i have trouble making a fist, i forget to clip my nails ALL the time. i couldnt use a fork and knife together until i was 13.

also, i cant jump with two feet, i can only jump one foot at a time

I guess I do. I'm not sure. Overall I have very poor coordination but some things I can do really well and other things not well at all. I didn't have any trouble learning to tie my shoes or hold a fork or things like that, but it took me 3 years to learn to ride a bike without training wheels. I have trouble holding a pen to write, but I can type very fast. I can play piano or wind instruments but can't get my fingers to work on a guitar. Terrible at sports of all kinds. I am very clumsy and lose my balance very easily. Tend to sway and bump into things when I walk. I drop things a lot, things just slide out of my hands like I have no grip on it. I have to grip things like a hammer or paint brush really hard to use them, to the point where it makes my knuckles bleed after awhile.

Thanks for sharing that. I still have trouble with knife and fork too
and my mom cuts up steaks and stuff like that for me still.
I'm at the age now where this stuff is really starting to stand out to me.

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This is an interesting list of problems caused by dyspraxia.
I had no idea it covered so much. Where does the autism end and the dyspraxia start?

Clumsiness. May drop things, spill things, bump into people, etc.
Difficulty writing, both forming letters and the speed. Writing may even be painful.
Reading difficulties.
Speech problems.
Poor short term memory. E.g. If given a list of instructions to carry out, may remember the first and last one but not the ones in between.
Awkward walking and running.
Trouble using a knife and fork. E.g. cutting food or spreading butter.
Sensitive to touch. E.g. uncomfortable brushing your teeth, brushing hair and having it cut and certain clothes uncomfortable to wear.
Sensitive to the texture of certain food, e.g. mashed potato
Sensitive to sounds, e.g. may not like loud music or the noise from a hoover.
Poor Concentration. E.g. easily distracted by background noise.
Poorly organised. E.g. leaving things you need for school at home
Have trouble learning new tasks particularly those involving organization and concentration.
Problems carrying out personal hygiene tasks, E.g. cleaning teeth, applying deodorant, cleansing face, etc
Trouble with social skills, E.g. problems reading and understanding body language, trouble understanding distance rules when sitting/standing next to someone, cant keep eye contact, etc.
People will not understand your problems so you may not be accepted socially and you may have trouble making friends.

I am still horrible with coordination even after OT, I dislike steak because cutting with a knife is something I can't do well and chewing it is also hard. I have made improvements with fine motor skills and thanks to dad's persistence I did learn to ride a bike at 5, after far too many painful scraps on the ground.

I don't think I do. I do have trouble writing by hand and playing ball sports, but I used to be in gymnastics. I think I was bad at ball sports because of my poor depth perception.

I am uncoordinated. It has gotten better as I have gotten older. However, I am still well below the skill of my peers. I don't like it either.

you basically just listed my characteristics, im gonna have to talk to my Psychologist about it next visit

Never diagnosed, but I suspect I have. I didn't learn to tie my shoelaces until late. It took me over a year of driving lessons before passing my test. It took me a year or 2 as a paperboy before I could pack loads of papers in a sack. I still have difficulty putting a duvet cover on a quilt, folding clothing, packing suitcases, handling cellotape, or wrapping parcels.

Yeah, this list remind me to the Q&A I had with OT and Neurology. Almost all those stand out to me in some extent.

As with diagnosis, Dyspraxia is highly suspected, there isn't a formal diagnosis since, as with the above, is covered by my Aspergers diagnosis and Tourette's to a lesser degree.

As with that, Dyslexia often goes hand in hand with what's suspected.

Me! Ill write more later..