dyspraxia

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It's been suggested that I may have dyspraxia by several people, aswell as AS, and an Aspergers specialist suggested I try and get diagnosed. when I asked my neurologist about reffering me for testing he said only children got diagnosed with it and he couldn't see the point anyway as "dyspraxia just means clumsiness".
Has anyone here been diagnosed with dyspraxia as an adult and if so how? I'm in the UK if it helps.

It was mentioned casually by a few professionals; for me, only gross motor skills are affected. I don't think that counts as a diagnosis, though. Like your doctor, I basically think, "Dyspraxia is just diagnosable clumsiness"; it happens when you're bad enough at figuring out where you are, how fast you're moving your muscles, and where other things are, that you're significantly more clumsy than average. It can interfere with learning to drive, learning to walk, learning to run, exercising, playing sports, and learning physical skills. Fine-motor dyspraxia would mean slow, messy handwriting, difficulty with typing and playing musical instruments, and being slow to learn to button a shirt, tie a shoe, and use a pencil. If you have serious problems with writing and written expression, it can blend into dysgraphia.

In general, though, unless you are having problems related to your poor motor skills, there's not much point in pursuing diagnosis. If you can walk well enough to get from point A to point B, generally the other things can be worked around. Special driving instruction might be necessary, though; and you may have to ask for accommodations in school related to writing speed, such as extra time to take tests or permission to type rather than writing assignments. If you are still in school, a typing class is highly recommended, as many people who are bad at handwriting find typing much easier.

I just take my hip bruises in stride....... literally lol.

How have no clue on the topic. Good luck.

He couldn't see the point: TRANSLATION: I am a grumpy neurologist on the NHS and I want people to suffer!! ! MWA HAHA!! !

I have had a bad experience... don't mind me!

If you are sure and it is affecting you in any way just keep bugging them. If you do it enough maybe they get sick of you and send you to shut you up! That's how I got my diagnosis!

I have quite significant difficulties which fit with dyspraxia however I have been diagnosed with Gross and fine motor impairment at some point which is pretty much just dyspraxia with a different name. If you have AS (diagnosed) then they don't often diagnose dyspraxia unless the symptoms are severe as it is well known that the symptoms often occur with AS. I haven't got a diagnosis but I have severe difficulty including with memory, sequencing and physical activity. This seems to have improved with age though!

When I was diagnosed with dyspraxia it was too late to do anything, and my son, who was diagnosed at nine, but slipped through the cracks until a few months ago, is now too old, at thirteen, for anything to be done about it. At least we've got our diagnoses though... thanks be to God! It helps to be able to explain to people why you've got problems. But there's nothing much can be done to improve it... though I did find that martial arts helped me with large motor skills. Fine motor skills are bizarrely patchy... I'm massively clumsy in some areas, extremely precise in others (touch typing for example.) I wouldn't worry about it... learn the piano, or how to knit, or play guitar. That would help fine motor skills. And see if there's any sport you fancy... martial arts helped me, campanology helped my son with large motor skills.

I still get lost easily, and have trouble telling my left from my right, and I suspect at this rate I'll be retired before I've passed my driving test. But it's not the end of the world.

Whats dyspraxia?

Uncoordinated motions. When you feel your body is too big to control it. When you want to do sth tender but you destroy it

Wow, I'm just learning about aspergers now and I didn't realize this tied into it. I have the same issue, although it was far worse when I was younger. They put me in physical therapy in kindergarten... it got to be less of an issue as I got older. There are still moments where I feel a little out of control, and I still can't seriously compete in sports (auto racing is the exception here, possibly because the steering wheel and pedals are stationary in at least one axis which gives me something to lean on).

Funny how things all tie together though.

I may have it mildy. I have both poor gross and fine motor skills. I can't ride a bike, despite my several attempts when I was younger and things like tying my shoelace, holding a pencil properly and landing a skateboard trick were always hard to do. I used to be really embarrassed by it but now I just say I have really poor motor skills when people around me a using chopsticks with little effort at all.

Dyspraxia is like dyslexia where the get the letters mixed up but with numbers instead.... That should give you a clear answer.

I have a feeling I might have dyspraxia because I literally struggle with numbers, mostly in sums though, I can count up and that but what I realised was when I was pretending to be a shop keeper for the fun of it, I literally struggled to figure out the sum and I even started to get numbers mixed up at this point.

You missed Dyspraxia with Dyscalculia!

Strange thing: my whole-body motions are little uncoordinated and rigid, but I am very good drawer. I say I have too big body to take full control and I should be only 150-160 tall

Dyspraxia is a brain disorder that affects motor skills.

Dyspraxia can be difficult to live with if it is severe. I have very poor coordination, tend to run into things constantly, have to hold on to something or someone when going on stairs, have difficulty writing, etc. It's one of the main reasons I was never able to drive a car...too much going on and by the time my brain gets around to telling my body what to do the wrecker truck is already on the way.

The letter I got with my ASD diagnosis on speculated that I might have mild dispraxia. I'm not really sure how you'd go about getting it diagnosed. I think it is linked to ASDs

Thanks for all replying. If the problems I was having were minor I don't think I'd bother arguing for a diagnosis, had enough trouble getting the aspergers diagnosis. I have trouble walking down the street without holding on to somebody and uneven ground is almost impossible. The biggest issue I have though is stairs. It's got to the point where I don't use them at all if there are more than a couple. My sense of direction is also none existant and I can't even find my grandparents house and they live less than a mile away and have lived in the same place for over a decade. Left and right are also hit and miss and if objects like rugs etc are moved in a room I find it hard to navigate my own house. My problems with stairs and uneven ground are really disabling as it restricts every where I can go. Detailed eye exams were also suggested as my aspergers specialist thought I may have problems with binocular vision but my neurologist was just as dismissive with that.
I just keep getting told I'm being avoidant and if I kept using stairs and walking on uneven gorund then it would go away. What the hell do they think I've been doing for the past 23 years! I've used stairs for my whole life but things have got so bad that I moved to a single storey house as I couldn't manage anymore. I think things got worse when I started having seizures and I wondered if dyspraxia could have been worsened by the epilepsy as I've always had motor difficulties but they got worse around that time.
At 23 years old I can only leave the house with my mother and can only go places with flat even surfaces and no stairs yet the doctors can't see a reason to do anything about it but tell me to just get on with it.

I think I have always had this mildly, I am really clumsy, suck at sports, bad handwriting no matter how hard I have tried over the years to practice it or make it better. And I do weird stuff especially with where I set plates down, even though that might be hand-eye coordination stuff, one of my exes always use to laugh at me because I would set plates and bowls and cups down right on the edge of the counter and he would find them balanced there hanging half off of the table or whatever and laugh at me that they didn't fall off and break when I sat them down, I still do that...I have astigmatism so maybe that has something to do with it.