Do you become less dyspraxic the older you get?

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As you grow older do you actually become less dyspraxic or is it merely a case that you avoid the things that accentuate your dyspraxia ?

I have become somewhat less dyspraxic as I got older. I'm still clumsy, though.

I hope so.

I think so, I mean my writing is legible now. But I don't know if that was do to age or OT mixed with taking up a hobby arguing online. I give most of the fine motor credit to arguing for sure.

I also regressed a good bit after I grew a lot a few years ago, and I seem to get a lot worse when I'm stressed.

I think it does pose less of a problem now for me than it used to. I put this down to having tasks committed to muscle-memory so that I can perform them "on autopilot" without much conscious intervention. When I'm learning a new task, or concentrating too hard on a known task, I am usually far more clumsy and worse at following sequences of actions. When people are trying to teach me how to perform some new task with my hands, they are often bewildered by how someone able to play musical instruments and type at a reasonable speed could possibly be so clumsy with their hands. Context makes a huge difference!

I haven't become less dyspraxic, nor more.

I had to look that word up.
I suppose I have gotten less so as I've gotten older. Or at least, since I was a kid. But I think all kids are still learning about how their body works. I've always had pretty good coordination, especially fine motor coordination.
I suppose one coordination thing that most people are better at than me is the catching motion: I've always been good at intercepting the thrown object but was slow in getting the hang of simultaneously closing my hand around it.