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Aspies with dyspraxia?

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Do any aspies here have dyspraxia? It seems fairly common, i know Willow has been diagnosed with it. Furthermore are there any aspies with dyspraxia that are allowed, or can drive on here?
 
I have dyspraxia. As a result, my handwriting isn't very good (unless I take my time) and I can't tie laces. I also have trouble with small, fiddly things.

As for driving, apparently I'll need to take a special test before I can even start lessons. I've yet to delve into that, though.
 
I don't have a full diagnosis for dyspraxia, but I have alot of the issues that go with it. I have the worst handwriting, I have had multiple teachers make me type assignments that were usually required to be handwrittened. One english teacher even used my handwriting as an example, which my brother saw two years later. I have tripped, and hit countless doorknobs, doors, walls, corners, chairs, etc. I've always been generally clumsy. I had alot of problems learning to drive. I always had slow reactions to what happened. I hated driving more than 45 mph, I just felt like things were coming at me too fast to handle. So I don't have a license to this day. There are probably other things I've forgotten, but that's all for now.
 
I did take driving lessons but I wasn't very good. I also couldn't drive all that fast without feeling like things were happening too quickly. When I drive I feel like I can't process all the information in time, or I process it after it's happened. So in the time that I'm processing it I feel like I'm going to crash. Having a delay like that doesn't seem safe in a car.
 
I was diagnosed with it as a kid and my mom said I outgrew it. I had occupational therapy and it improved my balance. I can drive but my hand writing was poor as a kid but it was still readable. However I wasn't good at any warm ups in PE or track and I found it hard to do some multi tasking like running as I wave my arms in the air. But walking on the treadmill made them easier to do. I am not real clumsy as I used to be.
 
As a kid I got to a place where they treat dyspraxia but for some reason i never finished the training . its annoying to be all clumsy and having the problems that is common with it.
 
I'm probably more so dyspraxic than Aspie, my family have even call overflowing a glass with fizzy pop a 'sammy' from the amount times i did this trick when I was younger. I'm chronically clumsy, fall upstairs often and over thin air a lot, yet I can drive, I've just lost my confidence because I dont have my own car and my mom and sister tried to make me drive like them, even though I learnt to wait for bigger gaps in traffic to pull into and work with my delay rather than against it. Practice really helps with speeding the delay up when driving, it did take me hundreds of pounds to learn to drive and four tests, but I'm glad I did, even if i have to face overcoming my nerves and relearning to drive when i can afford a car.

My brother got help for his dyspraxia and as sad as it is , it made me rather jealous, because he came on leaps and bounds, I've learnt to get over that, but it is annoying that such little help at a young age can make a big difference.
 
Sammie said:
my family have even call overflowing a glass with fizzy pop a 'sammy'
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Lol. It's good to hear that you've conquered driving, so to speak. Willow is in the process of learning to drive, though she stopped just before xmas since her instructor changed his teaching car, and she didnt like the change, at all. Hopefully reading these kinds of experiences will maybe make her want to start learning again. :)

Oh - and dont let your family rush you into making desicions when you're driving, 'back seat driving' is the most infurating thing lol. Take your time and get there alive. :)
 
I wouldn't like to say I have it but I certainly have a some of the traits/symptoms. I dress slowly and was very late at learning how to tie my shoe laces. When I was 10 I got in from school and, being really thirsty...and my dad took my into my bedroom and didn't let me have a drink until I learned how to tie my shoe laces properly. It worked. But it took HOURS. I remember gulping down the drink then. Aaah. The relief!

I do struggle with small objects. i get very frustrated when handling them. I usually just end up chucking them away. :D
 
My tutor taught me how to tie my shoe laces... LOL... When I was 12 or something. LOL.
EMZ=P
 
I cannot see how I had mild to moderate dyspraxia if I could tie my shoes at six years old, ride a bike on two wheels at that age and I did PE. I would say it was mild only.
 
XD. Not form tutor, a friend of the family used to help me with my homework and stuff a couple of times a week xD.
I fall out with my PE teacher a lot 'cause when she explains stuff I never get it and I just get really frustrated. I hate PE >_>. Last person I'd ask for shoe laces would be a PE teacher.
Then my Dad. LOL. He's like that. When we were younger is we couldn't pronounce a word we'd have to say it a hundred times and pronounce it right(if we didn't we had to start again). Noob >_>.
EMZ=P
 
raiimonarch10 said:
I had alot of problems learning to drive. I always had slow reactions to what happened. I hated driving more than 45 mph, I just felt like things were coming at me too fast to handle. So I don't have a license to this day. There are probably other things I've forgotten, but that's all for now.
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Do you have similar problems riding a bicycle?

Willow said:
I did take driving lessons but I wasn't very good. I also couldn't drive all that fast without feeling like things were happening too quickly. When I drive I feel like I can't process all the information in time, or I process it after it's happened. So in the time that I'm processing it I feel like I'm going to crash. Having a delay like that doesn't seem safe in a car.
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You spend so much time together with Chris and when in the car, you seem to always be in the same car as him anyway, so he always seems to be available to do the driving anyway. So when you ride as a passenger, does Christopher's driving behaviour seem "random?" Does it seem as if he (who has autonamy over you) responds to things before you notice them?

Also, who here has conquered driving proffesionally, or piloting aircraft and/or vessels?
 
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