Are These the Symptoms of Dyspraxia?

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Hi all. I know most of you aren't medical professionals. I am also aware ASD and Dyspraxia often go together. I've had issues with motor skills and coordination ever since I was a toddler. I'm going to compile a list of the symptoms I've noticed since childhood:
-Had great difficulty in learning how to ride a bicycle.
-Couldn't swim until I was about ten years old.
-Could never learn how to tie my shoes.
-Always had great difficulty buttoning and zipping clothes.
-Poor handwriting.
-Bumping into things often.
-Issues with brushing hair.
-Easily frustrated
-Poor hand-eye coordination.
-Poor dexterity
-Difficulties with producing certain sounds such as "ph", "th", and sometimes accidentally spitting when I talk.
-And lastly, issues holding cutlery.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but do these symptoms sound like Dyspraxia? I have more symptoms, but it'd be a drag to post them all. Thanks!

The difficulty in defining dyspraxia has been compounded by the varying terminologies used over the years to describe children with coordination difficulties. The background of the different professionals who see these children, and their experience and familiarity with the condition, has influenced terminology. The terms most commonly used have been:

• clumsiness or the clumsy child syndrome
• minimal brain dysfunction (MBD)
• developmental apraxia
• perceptuomotor dysfunction
• motor learning difficulty
• sensory integration disorder
• disorder of attention and motor perception (DAMP)
• developmental coordination disorder (DCD)

Source: Dyspraxia or developmental coordination disorder? Unravelling the enigma.

Wow, I guess Dyspraxia is part of that "euphemism treadmill." I think people see me as "mentally unfit" at my workplace. I literally cried last night because I thought for sure they were going to terminate me. My self esteem has been declining rapidly (not that it was great to begin with.) I'm determined to keep this job until I graduate from nursing school.

I have diagnosed dyspraxia and the list you gave is a pretty spot on description of my difficulties with it.

I bet you left out, knocking things over (with hands), tripping and losing balance.

I was actually diagnosed as "brain-damaged" when I was about 4.

And went to what was explicitly called a "brain-injured nursery school" for Kindergarten.