This isn't me, it's someone close I get impatient and exasperated with because they always seem clumsy and careless and socially a bit of a misfit (though they certainly don't feel any of those things) they're not going to get a diagnosis because they'd never think anything was unusual about them or be willing to consider it. I suppose it would just make it easier for me to be more patient if I could put a genuine reason for why they're like they are. Iv stumbled across dyspraxia and a lot sounds familiar but not all, so I copied and pasted the symptoms of a website and deleted all that I couldn't recognise in this person
With what's left - could they still have dyspraxia? Is it likely?
As I say there won't be any diagnosis, it would just help me be more forgiving I think
Gross motor co-ordination skills (large movements):
Poor balance
Poor postureÂ
Difficulties with driving a car
Lack of rhythm when dancing, doing aerobics
Clumsy gait and movement. Difficulty changing direction,
Tendency to fall, trip, bump into things and people
Fine motor co-ordination skills (small movements)
Difficulty using tools and domestic implements, locks and keys
Difficulty with dressing and grooming activities, such as putting on makeup, shaving, doing hair, fastening clothes and tying shoelaces
Speech and language:
No symptomsÂ
Eye movements:
Tracking. Difficulty in following a moving object smoothly with eyes without moving head excessively.
Poor relocating. Cannot look quickly and effectively from one object to another (for example, looking from a TV to a magazine)
Perception (interpretation of the different senses):


Lack of awareness of body position in space and spatial relationships. Can result in bumping into and tripping over things and people, dropping and spilling things
Little sense of time, speed, Leading to difficulties driving,Â
Inadequate sense of direction. Difficulty distinguishing right from left means map reading skills are poor
Learning, thought and memory:
Poor memory, especially short-term memory. May forget and lose things
Unfocused and erratic. Can be messy and cluttered
May do only one thing at a time properly, though may try to do many things at once
Slow to finish a task. May daydream and wander about aimlessly
Emotion and behaviour:
Difficulty in listening to people, Can be tactless, interrupt frequently. Problems with team work
Difficulty in picking up non-verbal signals or in judging tone or pitch of voice in themselves and or others. Â May listen but not understand
Tendency to be erratic ñ have ‘good and bad days’
Tendency to opt out of things that are too difficult
Emotions as a result of difficulties experienced:
Tend to get stressed,Â
emotional outbursts, and addictive behaviour
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does this sound like dyspraxia? (adult)
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pigeonpoo · 23/03/2016 00:16
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