I am dyspraxic and I will get in your way please don't hate me

[cranberrypi]

AIBU to ask for tolerance for people like me who can't judge speed and distance and are very spatially unaware?

I am forever getting tutted at, called rude, whatever, for walking too close to someone, or not realising I'm in the way, or going through a door that someone else was just about to go through, or going ahead of someone to pick up something from a supermarket shelf that I didn't realise they were just about to pick up, or hundreds of other misdemeanours I have absolutely no control over.

I do very occasionally make accidental physical contact, not in a rough way, maybe accidently touch you with my shopping bag or something

But unless I lock myself away for ever and never come out, it is going to happen, and I get so fed up with being constantly moaned at, glared at, tutted at, called rude, etc. Please don't.

I do think it's asking too much op, even though it's not your fault. If you bump into me, I'm definitely going to be annoyed. If you apologise then that's that, but my initial reaction is to be annoyed. Everyone has something going on, a place to be, life stresses etc but that's life. Apologise and move on.

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Dc have dyspraxia and we've never had any issues either with bumping into people or them tutting/being rude.

Gently.....could you possibly be thinking its a bigger deal than what it actually is?

One of my DC is exactly like this, poor spatial awareness/coordination but unfortunately she can’t be assessed for dyspraxia as her fine motor skills are good so she comes out as “normal” on the DCD questionnaire. It breaks my heart when people are mean to her as she literally can’t help it but also I understand their frustration.

I'm probably going to be annoyed if you do the things you describe to me. How will anyone know you're dyspraxic?

Wear the sunflower lanyard as that could reduce people's annoyance. If I saw that then I'd be initially annoyed but would understand when I saw it.

Mistaking a bump for a physical assault? Aggression? Feeling like you don’t exist?

You are carrying a lot of negative emotions with you that are making you overreact to an accident.

You don’t need to make it a competition over who has the worst life or health, but to do that you need to stop feeling like a victim.

That’s interesting. I also have dyslexia, dyscalculia and Irfan Something Syndrome which is a visual processing problem. I need to find out more about this 😂

TBH all these things have so many symptoms I lose track of what’s a problem and what’s just me!