Published on 12, July, 2020
I've been chatting to an online friend about this and we were wondering if we have dyspraxia.
I know there is a link with autism.
When I was in the junior school a school report said: 'although not physically well co-ordinated Debra enjoys PE (physical education, sports)'.
Actually I loathed it and was hopeless and always picked last.
Very poor eyesight didn't help though so sometimes it's difficult to 'see the wood for the trees'.
My whole life I've fallen over, broken and dropped things and walked into anything really that's walkintoable.
Here's a link:
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/developmental-coordination-disorder-dyspraxia-in-adults/
What about you?
Yeah...
Still do drop things, bump into things, negotiate my space poorly. As a child I had a lazy eye.
Oh well.
I'm also hopeless at remembering the way out of unfamiliar buildings.
I really sympathise with navigating buildings, my general sense of direction is nil, I had a hospital appointment last week, I had my X-ray done quite quickly, I then walked out the unit and walked for what seemed like ages and ended up back at the X-ray unit, I then found the lift and got off at the wrong floor, this caused a further act of wandering. The same happens in shopping centres. I can come out of a shop and just walk in a random direction.
I wonder if it’s being overwhelmed and having no bandwidth left for normal thoughts, that’s if I ever have normal thoughts!
I am constantly asking "where.." in new building till I find my way out (or into the room I want). As long as there's someone to ask each, step of the way, I'm fine.
Once I have developed a map in my head of a place I'm good, though.