#99% sure i have dyspraxia
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I have this problem too.
The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.
In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.
But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.
"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?
"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.
Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?
It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.
#am i autistic?#pretty sure I'm dyspraxic#99% sure i have dyspraxia#but i keep being told I'm not autistic
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i feel i should vote dexterity due to how flexible your yaoi hands look am i correct
wronggg im like 99% sure i have dyspraxia. im exceptionally bad at catching things and i accidentally chuck stuff that im holding across the room <333 my elbows DO overextend a bit but it's not translated into flexibility.
tldr no dex is one of my dump stats you just want my freaky yaoi hands 🥰
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another nudge to pls maybe mehaps fill in my tracker to help out stupid autism brain <3
#side note. 99% sure ima have a dyspraxia flare up this month shshshs#i dont have my laptop table so i cant use my mouse in bed and mY HANDS ARE ALREADY FEELING IT#* functioning on my last brain cell / ooc.
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So I don't have an official diagnosis but I'm 99% sure I have dyspraxia. I've been diagnosed with adhd, suspect autism as well, and have pretty much every textbook symptom. I suspect it's the reason why I have my stabilizers on Clip Studio Paint up high. I can't even draw anything close to a straight line without tools. My handwriting is god awful and will tilt all over the page if I'm not writing on lined paper.
I think it's also why I've always struggled so much with drawing from reference? Because I always feel like the second I take my eyes off a reference to look at my page my brain immediately tosses out anything I've just looked at, or maybe more it gets lost somewhere on the way from my mind to my hand. I've learned how to draw primarily through tracing/trace shaping because I need to focus more on training my hand to do the motions.
I was also garbage at sports to the point my lack of coordination stunned my coaches every time. Like how could I be 16 and like this? And now I'm running into similar struggles learning dog grooming and that's been frustrating.
Dyspraxia is something I haven't done too much research into but I know it does fit. I know I can still learn hand-eye coordination things (clearly, I have a comic I update regularly and all) but I need to learn to accept I need to learn/do things differently than others. Even after years of living with these things and trying to be more self accepting I still feel like such a dumbass for not practicing my art the "correct" way or not being able to translate my stylist instructor's instructions to the right movements.
People have always said I have a weird pencil grip, and its come up more during my recent work training. I do find my pencil digs hard into the side of my middle finger.
People out there who know things about pencil hand grips or whatever, is this weird? Am I destroying my wrist with this? I honestly can't make myself write/draw any differently.
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I'm autistic and I'm like 99% sure i have dyspraxia. Do i need to be diagnosed to be valid? I love your blog by the way :)♡
thank you for the lovely message. c: You are definitely valid without an official diagnosis! If you find that dyspraxia describes the problems you're having - and considering how common it is for autistic people to experience it as well - it's totally fine and probably even common. Whether or not you have a diagnosis, your struggles and impairments are real and valid.
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In today’s “Oh that explains literally everything,” my entire childhood and 98 of my 99 problems have now been explained.
Did y’all know dyspraxia was a thing? Cuz I sure didn’t. But there isn’t a single symptom, both “early” and “adult,” that I haven’t hit throughout my life with the exception of the speech difficulties. And I don’t mean that as an exaggeration.
I have been absolutely dumbfounded since discovering that this is a thing. I can’t even begin to tell y’all how validating it is to realize there’s a reason for everything. I almost got held back several times in elementary school for my impossibly bad handwriting. I have no hand dominance even as an adult. I can’t write neat for crap, and I didn’t learn how to use utensils til I was 4. My mom needed witnesses on call when I went to the doctor and hospital because I got injured so often and so bizarrely that it looked like abuse but I really was just that clumsy. No matter how hard I try, I still can’t do certain things-- my hands just don’t listen. I know what I want to do, and I know the theory and what I need to do, but my hands jack it up no matter what I do. I would have failed geometry if my teacher hadn’t liked me so much because I physically can’t make the “3D” shapes pop out like they’re supposed to. I can’t take notes and listen at the same time, I have memory problems, I have issues with spatial awareness, my depth perception is crappy, I can’t stay organized despite trying every trick in the book, I still get hurt all the time and lose track of where I am in space and constantly run into stuff and basically just go read the list of symptoms to get a glimpse into my life for the past almost-27-years. And I thought that was normal, and that I was just bad at being a person because everyone else could do things I couldn’t. Nobody else was like me, so I must have been failing somehow.
But no. My neurological system is actually out of whack and it’s Not. My. Fault. I’m not crazy. I’m not exaggerating. It’s not my fault, and I have answers for the first time.
I don’t know that I’ll ever get a doctor to take me seriously enough to send me to a specialist to get an official diagnosis, because I’ve learned to cope enough to pass. But gosh, I can’t tell you the relief I feel knowing that I’m not just a clumsy, hopeless wreck of a human being who can’t get their crap together. Knowing there’s a reason is just... Dang.
Anyway. Dyspraxia. I have dyspraxia. There’s a name for it. I know now.
#personal things#holy cow i seriously can't get over it#i have answers#i now know what my fine and gross motor delays were as a child#i know why i can't draw despite knowing how and taking lessons#i know why i fall over for no reason#i know now that i'm not crazy#dang
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