oli234
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| Quote: | These cases are really sad, and fankly extremely frustrating - for acknowledgement and help with aspergers/autism, you need a diagnosis - you have to admit it. However, a dyspraxia diagnosis for any undiagnosed auties/aspies is a death sentence. Right then and there, autism is cancelled out because the dyspraxia dX seems to cancel it out - all autie characteristics are 'as a result of dyspraxia'.
This is especially frustrating because a lot of experts don't consider autism in their diagnosis, they are just looking at face value symptoms, i.e. no speech, clumsiness, and come up with dyspraxia.
Yet you can be diagnosed in the order autism to dyspraxia??? I don't get it...
I got a dyspraxia dX at 3, when I had motor delay and speech delay. |
I can certainly relate to that. I was diagnosed at four with dyspraxia, grew up vauguly knowing that I had some kind of neurological condition which affected my co-ordination and knew nothing about autism until I started a degree in psychology in my twenties. When I first went to the doctors seeking a potential diagnosis for aspergers she saw on my medical record I had dyspraxia and immidietly dismissed all my concerns.
In other Dypraxia horror stories I was once being told off in high school for submitting a messily written piece of work, on informing my teacher I had dyspraxia she told me I was mispronouncing dyslexia! |
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lostD
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It reminds me of the first time I told my best friend that after talking with my parents and reading some of my medical records I suspected dyspraxia. She told me "no, you are not dyslexic".  (turns out that dyspraxia tends to make dyslexia-like symptoms). |
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Claire_Louise
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| oli234 wrote: | | Quote: | These cases are really sad, and fankly extremely frustrating - for acknowledgement and help with aspergers/autism, you need a diagnosis - you have to admit it. However, a dyspraxia diagnosis for any undiagnosed auties/aspies is a death sentence. Right then and there, autism is cancelled out because the dyspraxia dX seems to cancel it out - all autie characteristics are 'as a result of dyspraxia'.
This is especially frustrating because a lot of experts don't consider autism in their diagnosis, they are just looking at face value symptoms, i.e. no speech, clumsiness, and come up with dyspraxia.
Yet you can be diagnosed in the order autism to dyspraxia??? I don't get it...
I got a dyspraxia dX at 3, when I had motor delay and speech delay. |
I can certainly relate to that. I was diagnosed at four with dyspraxia, grew up vauguly knowing that I had some kind of neurological condition which affected my co-ordination and knew nothing about autism until I started a degree in psychology in my twenties. When I first went to the doctors seeking a potential diagnosis for aspergers she saw on my medical record I had dyspraxia and immidietly dismissed all my concerns.
In other Dypraxia horror stories I was once being told off in high school for submitting a messily written piece of work, on informing my teacher I had dyspraxia she told me I was mispronouncing dyslexia! |
Hi Oli234,
I just don't get it, how dyspraxia can cancel out an autism dX - especially as you might have been dXed with dyspraxia by a speech therapist, who only goes on physical symptoms... There must be a paper somewhere, but I'm yet to find it 
You're doing a psychology degree? Human behaviour is fascinating. It also amazes me how many aspies actually turn out doing something like psychology  I guess it might be frustrating over the service they got.
Wow - your teacher story is half hilarious, half appauling!!!
I'm always too nervous to tell teachers that I have dyspraxia - the only one I told never did anything to help or give allowances, so that discouraged me hugely. |
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sallyfisher
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my son has dyspraxia and for him its way more than just being clumsy or not being able to tie his laces . it effects his speech,has very poor short term memory,hes loses things all the time to the point he cant even see something thats right in front of him,has no sense of time i could go on and on.
i have a brother who has AS and theres been many times i have suspected my son has AS or at least traits of it, he comes out with the oddest things or asks the strangest questions and takes everything so literal but the doctors say no hes far to sociable,people always like him because hes very funny and has a twinkle in his eye.
the strangest thing about dyspraxia is one day he surprises you he can do something the next day he cant,it can even vary from hour to hour. |
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Douglas_MacNeill
What's next beyond "Phoenix?"
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| I haven't been tested for it, so I can't say for sure. However, I was always the last person to be picked when a physical education was dividing itself into teams for playing some game. Also, I discontinued Phys. Ed. at the first opportunity in senior high. I wonder if there is such a thing as sub-clinical dyspraxia.... |
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oli234
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Hi Clare Louise!
Well, despite my horror story I would reccomend telling your teachers.....some of mine were actualy quite understanding, let me submit work typed on a pc ect.....
I'm actualy taking a little break from my degree at the moment, I was studying part-time from home so I can start again any time I like.....but I was beggining to find it a frustrating process, large parts of it bored me to tears! So I'm just working at the moment, and looking to do some volontary work to gain experience to get a better job...
But anyway, I wanted to post this article from The Guardian (british newspaper) by a women with dyspraxia.......the article itself is so so, but I think the comments are very revealing.....both about how many people there out there struggling to find work because of Dyspraxia/other nerological conditions, and about the depth of ignorance most people have about these conditions.....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/27/dyspraxic-jobs |
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Claire_Louise
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Hi oli234,
Sorry in the late reply - I go in and out of wp obsessions
It's the NZ school holidays, but at the start of next year, I've finally decided to go to the GATE teacher. She should be more useful than the disability co-ordinator at my school. She knows I have dyspraxia, but does nothing about it - she treats me like a hypochondriac.
I read the Guardian article comments. They were quite ironic. Clear evidence of the depth of ignorance of most people...
Thanks for posting the article.
I had hoped a psychology degree might be exciting - but apparently not. I'm really interested in sociology. |
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