Dyspraxia is a 'minor' condition ?

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People don't need much help and support for it? Or so I've heard tell.

It's a "major" condition if the dyspraxia caused you to get hit by a car.

There is no cure for the condition. Instead, it is managed through therapy. Physical therapy or occupational therapy can help those living with the condition. Some people with the condition find it helpful to find alternative ways of carrying out tasks or organizing themselves, such as typing on a laptop instead of writing by hand, or using diaries and calendars to keep organized.

I have a minor form of it. In the vernacular, I'm a klutz. I'm lucky it's so minor.

Never been hit by a car . The forgetfulness that can go with it though resulted at my last place in my twice forgetting I'd put the bath on , and flooding my flat. The people in the flat below naturally weren't pleased.

Yep...that would make it “major,” too

They told me mine is minor. I randomly tip over and fall into things a lot. I also have issues with learning which is normal for dyspraxics. The main thing that would make me second guess calling it minor for some people is the mental anguish that can come with it. I don't know about you but after making simple mistakes or turning up to school having forgotten everything the stress is enough to cause me multiple panic attacks and almost led to a shut down and that's with minor dyspraxia. In the past it has led me to just not leaving my bed even to go to school for about a week.

I still have nightmares about turning up to school and not having the right books or not knowing where to go! Never knew dyspraxia involved anything other than clumsiness and bad hand-writing until fairly recently. I guess it's like autism causing different amounts of problems or stress for different people.

I'd fit 'Global' - gross motor , fine motor , ideotional ,constructional,visual?(visual short term memory is not good)

That's a good diagram. It can affect you in so many ways but they hardly give you any information about it (at least they didn't for me). Would never have guessed that dyspraxia was the cause of it taking ages for me to cross the road (find it very hard to judge if gaps in traffic are large enough).

I fit the ideomotor dyspraxia description, I spill drinks, drop silverware, miss fields on touch screens. I know what I want to do it but controlling my body precisely enough to carry the task can be very difficult and it requires full focus.
I learned several workarounds in my teens, how to hold a thing I slice so I don't slice myself even if the knife goes wrong way, how to wash up not to break dishes, etc.
Touch screens are still a problem.
I consider my dyspraxia "mild" or rather "high functioning" - it doesn't impair me much. Just a bit, sometimes. Smart phones are the biggest issue, I'm considering buying a Banana Phone.

All I read about dyspraxia therapy was not treatment but learning workarounds - exactly the thing I did myself in my teens.