Dyscalculia.

What is Dyscalculia?

Dyscalculia is a learning disability that causes people to have problems with maths. These people have problems with numbers, I myself are one of those people. You can still have a normal IQ. I myself haven't been diagnosed but I will be honest I have always had big problems with numbers.
 Once I have got past counting to ten, then I get stuck so I try to work the maths out on paper or make sure I have many items to add onto my fingers. with - when it comes to borrowing write the numbers down to how many numbers I need then put the numbers the sum asks me to -. * eg; 4+4=8 2*4=8. I can't seem to do maths in my head I have to work them out on paper, which mostly with me takes a long time. There are some maths I can't even work out with a calculator but some I can, which is strange, I can't round numbers up either and I can't only have so many numbers.

It's hard to believe it has taken nearly thirty years of my life to even guess that I may Dyscalculia. In the last twenty odd years ago, this possible maths disability has affected my chances of getting a job so it's hard to know if I can get tested for Dyscalculia before I do get too, may be even if the funding is out there may be support for me to get a proper job.
Anyway going by my own experience it's a sad fact that we get these cuts coming in because people a lot younger than me with all kinds of disabilities could get better support than me.
Dyscalculia is only a problem with numbers but people can find it hard to tell the time, find it hard to tell from their left to their right, they can find orientation hard and following the rules of games. Pretty much all of those I have problems with but as years went on I strangely didn't do badly at telling the time but very slow at learning it.

These are problems people Dyscalculia but every person varies to how their problems lie.

1. Numbers lines can be hard to understand.
2.Borrowing numbers in - can hard to work out.
3.Finding it hard to work, some, most or even all maths can be for some with dyscalculia in their head.
4. Some people find it hard work out maths when they have to go past ten.
5.Difficulty using fingers counting recognizing how an answer can be to a sum like for eg; 6+4= 10. 
6. Difficulty in understanding value.
7. Some people will find it hard to calculation certain kinds of maths but could be different ones for different people.
8. Anxiety is a sense of fear and dread, Dyscalculia is more than just a weakness of maths its disability. Meaning the person with Dyscalculia a fear and dread maths but also it causes them a lot of frustration knowing they can't get easier because of lack of maths skills.
9. Dyscalculia is a sense of number blurriness, blindness, and jargon of facing numbers.
10. Spatial difficulties not good at drawing, visualization, remembering arrangements of objects, understanding time, direction.

11.Short term memory difficulties the literature to relation between these and dyscalculia is very controversial. 
12. Poor coordination of movement ( Dyspraxia).
13. Reversal of numbers this is normal development stage which all children go through and no cause to alarm it.
14. Difficulty remembering names - evidence to suggest that verbal memory has anything to do with Dyscalculia.
15. Good language skills but very poor maths skills.
16. Problems with very basic calculations as well as maths.
17. Problems with guessing and estimation numbers.
18. Inconsistent maths skills ( can do something one day but not the next.)
19. Most people find it hard to read analog clocks.
20. Some people find it hard to understand maps, many people may even get confused with right and left.
21.Most people find it hard to keep numbers in columns, then end up with the wrong answer in the sum.
22. Confusion with math concepts.

23. Most people can even have problems with words.
24. These problems can cause a lot of people Anxiety, stress to a point they burst into tears because they feel useless, helpless and fearing that they will never get anywhere career wise to a point they feel as if life isn't worth living.
25. Switching to addition while doing subtraction problem or vice versa.
26. Forgetting addition facts and multiplication.
28. Failure to remember math steps.
29.Changing sequence of numerals when copying them can be a problem for most people.

Famous people with Dyscalculia.

Henry Winkle who played the Fonz in ' Happy Days', Cher a singer, Mary tyler Moore writer and actress, Benjamin Franklin newspaper printer, writer, musician, scientist yet he was very poor at maths.
Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale story writer, Bill Gates computer creator but he has numbers coming out his ears, Thomas Edison light bulb invert er, he had problems with maths but he managed to overcome them, Luis Armand, Garcia child star, Sarah Barr able Tisha actress, Mick Hucknall who was in a pop group Simply Red, he once said ' I suffer from  Dyscalculia number blindness - I am made to feel stupid but art school opened the new world of creativity for me and I loved it, although Albert Einstein was good with his physics and his science certain part of his life he was very weak at maths but may have overcome it WWW.alberteinstensite.com. May you could find out about more famous people with Dyscalculia. 

  I myself, this is what I thought the same with my poetry and drawing even though I haven't had any luck as such with publishing. 

Causes of Dyscalculia.
Research says that Dyscalculia is caused by a result of a (brain injury). In my case, it does make sense because I was born with a very mild brain damage on the left-hand side of the brain, which has affected the left-hand side of my body as if I have had the effects of a stroke all my life but it causes me to have mild Epilepsy instead. I also say which also makes sense in my case it can link with other disabilities like Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and (ADHD). 

Other disabilities that can be caused by a mild brain damage.
There are at least 30% off of people who suffer from epilepsy ( nearly) who have mild to moderate learning disability. The more severe the learning disability is the more likely the person is to have epilepsy.

Emotional and behavior problems.
( ADHD hyperactively) is an emotional feeling of sadness. moodiness anger, which could also be linked with Anxiety and depression. This can happen any time any place any where whether there's a reason to have those emotional feelings or not, this can make a person behave anyway as possible depending how sensitive they feel. People whose disabilities started of from certain brain injuries may likely to suffer from Clinical depression like people such as myself who was born from a mild brain damage.
A sense of anger could be for eg; Someone trying to achieve a skill but they just can't without the right support, they feel angry because they are having to ask for support and they hate feeling a buron to people. Yet people who can do can do most things for themselves don't understand what it's like for those who can do least things for themselves.

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Please pm me for an interview if you are interested in being Admin for either of one, we manage 9 groups but 2 will be closing down on Monday. We manage disability groups, which are awareness and advocacy groups all in 1  and 2 music groups.

Our groups are Facebook groups and not paid so please help out as and when you are free and when you feel like working on our groups. However' as long or short as your time is worthwhile you being an Admin. We do also have a few reliefs on some of our group.

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Autism page.

It's hard for people like myself with autism to able to explain and express ourselves, our meanings, our feelings, our thoughts and etc. It's hard for not - disabled people to understand us.

We can suffer from behavior problems mostly during childhood because we feel as if we feel we can't make ourselves understood. I cannot say that we grow out of being misunderstood but the older we get, we get better to what we were. Once have we have achieved more skills, we start to to feel more equal to non - disabled people. This can start to happen from teenage yrs going into adulthood. we start to feel better in ourselves. The behavior problems get less so we get less angry with people around us and ourselves. All through my adulthood, I have learned to accept myself as I am.

what I went through was during school for eg I couldn't tie my shoelaces. The children didn't understand why I couldn't tie my shoelaces neither did I, this was one of the reasons I got bullied. It can get to you, it can make you feel the odd one out to others. When you are a child it's the worse time to feel like the odd one out. Life is only just beginning for you, you're trying to learn about life in order to get on with it. The fight is that you have Autism getting in your way, once you get used to it and not let Autism come between you, you're on your ways being equal to everyone.

There again you become stronger in your own mind as an adult. You get used to people taking the mickey out of your disability when you have been through it so many times but it shouldn't have been that way. That's life that's the way it is. Mind you thank goodness, I haven't had to live with bullying as much through my adulthood, as much as I did through my childhood. Like I said Mencap is worried about people with disabilities all ages getting bullied. People should accept us the way we are or not at all.


When we are children we don't understand that non - disabled people don't understand us, it upsets us and confuses us. We can kick, punch, scream and etc. With the right support and punishment, most of us can get by. We may not like been punished during childhood but we are thankful for it when we become adults. I was taught right from wrong but my family didn't have any support so it got too much for them but somehow, someway they got by. Now the government hasn't made it very easy for parents to punish children so they need twice as much support when they have got children with Autism. I guess when it comes to behavior problems, it's hard for families to know what is part of their Autism or what part is just being naughty. Another reason it's hard in all fairness no believes in beating a child but also not letting them get away with what they want. Children twice as much hard work, with screaming, biting and that makes them twice as naughty, even though they are upset because they find hard to do things at the same speed as not - disabled children. It's hard to get that balance, isn't it?

I have to admit I am out of date with how things are for families who have children with Autism today. All years I have been an adult, I have lost track. How do families cope now? Maybe things have improved, maybe they get things to relax them to calm the behavior problems down. What I experienced was that I was very tense when I started a Paddie and I think I even had panic attacks when I ended a Paddie. I can never understand now, why we get in such a state so easily if we can't achieve what we want to but I had to learn that I could get my own way. Yet I remember feeling so guilty afterward. Maybe also it could be to do with diet, years ago families weren't educated to know about these things. If you have a child or children with Autism. Well, admire you if you have children with Autism because one child with Autism is hard work. Please send me an email, I'd be interested to hear your story, how do you cope?  Facebook sarajgorman@gmail.com. I could even get some support off Mencap for you if you want or even may be supported elsewhere. It's possible you know some children, teenagers and or adults with Autism who need some support in some way too. Whatever the situation with Autism I'd be happy to hear from you, I'd be happy to support or an even find support for you.


Children aren't punished like they were well over twenty years ago. Now it's twice as hard for parents who have children with autism. It could be pretty much the same for parents with children who have other disabilities or even not - disabled children.

Once I realized it wasn't always possible to achieve the skills I wanted in one day, I found in my own speed I achieved them. In the days I couldn't be accepted I had disabilities, it took me even longer to achieve the skills. The angrier I got with myself the worst it got. In the end, I never gave up on myself, I found a way of achieving what I wanted. Like I said though, if people think we're useless, they haven't got the time of day for us and people who give up on us that will make us twice as angry, it also take a long time to accept.If not days or month, it could be years.


Saying that like I said, we don't give up, we will always find a way of being taught the skills that are possible for us to learn. If you give up on us, you could make it twice as hard work on a people who teach us in future. They could be people who won't and don't want to give up on people with disabilities. Like I say it could take a lot out of that person with disabilities to trust people who really will teach them. I guess a good many people who have tried to teach me and given up on me have made it twice as hard work for people who wanted to teach me.


Another reason for most of us with Autism to have behavior problems can't always do most things for things for themselves, it can make us feel guilty and silly in front of people. Either the not - disabled people haven't got very long to show us with autism the skill they need or and want to learn. Some people may not be the people to support people with disabilities if that's the case be truthful with us. Don't help us if you don't want to help us. If we are not happy, we can sense people who do and do not want help us. I If feel as if somebody doesn't want to help me that can be one of my reasons why I may not feel good about myself. It's same for others with disabilities We can also feel disliked.

People like ourselves and the people who are supporting us have learned if we have an unsuccessful day one day, tomorrow is another day. I know tomorrow isn't always possible but whatever day for me, as long as I'm free. How other people like myself is them but this is me. I used to get very upset if I didn't achieve the skill in one day but I had to learn that wasn't always the way. If you can encourage the person with Autism to learn to wait for that next day or whenever, well that's better support than what I used to have. If you find they have had an enough of trying the same thing too for long, they will see enough is enough in their own time. Saying that you will need to be strong enough to tell them enough, we will try again next time whenever that is. I will understand you may well have had enough mainly if you haven't got all day. Maybe you've shown someone ten times over again. I can see it from both sides of the coin.


Sometimes we may not admit how we really feel because we want to end the day with a smile on our faces. That's one the reasons why we feel down if we haven't achieved what we want to in that day. Saying that like me today, we accept one day, learning in one day isn't always possible. It's up to you to be able to be strong enough to accept that's the way people with autism can be. It's also up to you to help us to accept things too. If your a person who gets upset very easily too that's not been strong that's not being strong for people with Autism. We won't feel very good or strong in ourselves otherwise. Let us know you haven't given up on them but it's been a long day, see you tomorrow or whenever. Try to be as understanding as possible because people like us can feel dislikes if people think we're useless and not worth teaching. We can feel as if we have done something wrong and we can think your not happy with us, it's up to you to tell the person with autism that your not cross with them but well done for trying today because trying is what we have achieved. Most people used to say me.
"Trying is not good enough."

People shouldn't tell them that they aren't good enough because otherwise, they won't feel as if they have any strong points at all, that's how sensitive people with autism can be. I know I said it's made me a stronger person but also at the same time it takes while understanding that things have moved on to what they were and I have a bit support. For eg, if you have been punished for making mistakes, it's too easy to think that everyone is going to be the same towards. I have got over that a bit I still there's a long way to go. As support gets better I will start to feel better in myself. In fact, I think that is the same for everyone really. It may take them a while to accept that we are not useless if we have been told by too many people that we are useless, I know as I say that's happened to me. We can also prove you wrong if we achieve skills that you don't we'll ever achieve. I want them to be able to trust you. I don't them finding hard to trust people's support during adulthood or even childhood and teenage years. I have learned that it can take years to feel you can trust that someone won't give up on you. If people in past can put the fear of God in you for most of you but in years to come you do move on. You will always have a long way to go though.

Epliespsy page.

people autism who are on certain tablets for example, very strong tablets can cause very dangerous side -effects. Saying that these effects can happen to you even if you don't have autism. Doctors should put you on the tablets that are right for you.

You could find that these tablets affect your ability, which could be a scary and dangerous experience for you like it was for me. From walking the street around hours on end, you lose your sense of direction and surroundings . I have been close to having been getting run over by a car because of the tablets making me unaware. Sometimes we don't realize what a big wide world it is, it can be dangerous if that. It's as if you are always in a black out all the while. To society you as if you are going round the bend, which are when walking around for hours not understanding where you going, what you are doing, not knowing whether you are going the right or wrong way. These things can happen to you unintentionally, a lot of people don't understand that. It's as if you plan your life to be this way but you don't. People who don't know and understand people with disabilities, tend to give us a hard time. May because we don't look the same as them and we do and don;t do things that they haven't experienced. If you come across people experiencing what I have experienced, don't give them a hard time, support them. If they look lost, confused, upset or and they look as if they are in danger, if you have time on your hands take them where they need to go or find someone who can help them.

Once someone tells you about something you have been doing or not doing that you're not aware of when you come round and someone tells you what's happened, it's very upsetting because that isn't the real you. Maybe it affects you when you don't have your tablets. Everyone is the difference, good job we are otherwise it would be a boring world.

I found the tablets I was taking in those days made me feel sleepily in the day and hyperactive at night, I guess these were a few of the side -effects from the old tablets. It's as if you have had an operation and the hospital has let you out right away to find your own way in the world.


The tablets in those days were very powerful and strong, I think I was on the wrong tablets because they were too, my fits have always only been very mild. For eg, Strong tablets are too strong for people who have mild fits, which causes people dangers to themselves and others through no fault of my own. The name of the tablets was called Phenobarbitone. I guess I was taking them three times a day, I think they were about 300mg to 500mg, I may well be wrong.

If you are supporting anyone with these problems, it can be worrying for them and for you. If at all possible maybe you could keep a diary on how the tablets are affecting the person's everyday life, maybe you can support them to see their doctor or and drop me an email if you need someone to talk to. Maybe I can try to support you in finding some information, websites, emails, advice and etc. Maybe it might be a case of changing their tablets or like in my case it was talking me off the tablets altogether. Whichever way it is, you may be able to see a difference in the person's awareness and ability.Facebook sarajgorman@gmail.com.

The tablets that I am on now are called Lamotrigine, they are only 100mg which I only take one twice a day. These tablets are very mild, I don't get the same problems as I used to get these days. I learn better and I am now more aware of the world around me than what I used.

What doesn't help our behavior problems are, lack of sleep, diet and we feel tense?
We need to cut down on maybe salt and sugar for sure because most of us with autism suffer from been hyperactive. If only my family knew in my childhood what they know now, maybe everyone would have had some sleep. Maybe not in my case as a child.

What people didn't know during in my childhood over twenty years ago, I needed exercise and I needed something to relax me. If you are like how I used to be or you may know someone who is, maybe that's the support what's needed for you or and whoever. Maybe I can look for websites that try to support Autistic children, teenagers, adults, their families and carers if you want me to. If you are supporting and caring for someone with autism in one way or another, you are welcome to contact me or and Mencap, we could get you on to other places if you want if our support isn't good enough. You could be a family member, a carer, even a support worker or a friend to them. Please email me on Facebook sarajgorman@gmail.com. Perhaps I can get you some websites, email addresses and etc if you want my support.

I have heard that there are disability nurses in school but I am glad to say that they were there that in my day, sorry I sound really old. It is true how things have changed so much in last twenty to thirty yrs or so. There are also things that never have changed or and even never will.

My weight and height were always checked. I was always too fat or too thin but never Anorexia or obese, or if you know what I mean. I don't think they never knew what eating disorders
were. Perhaps they had heard of Anorexia but not obese. Nine times out ten we are either underweight or overweight, that's all they knew. I think we knew about Anorexia which is underweight but not Obese which is overweight. I believe now that we do know, everyone should have check ups, mainly people with disabilities. Nine times out of ten people with disabilities have health problems so their weight isn't the only thing to think about.

For eg I was hyperactive as a child, I must admit I was to blame there. I did enjoy my sweets, cakes and etc too much. It shows that in those days there was very little education given to adults about what's good and bad for children. My family was very good but society didn't really tell them about children who had disabilities at that time. Mind we didn't know a lot about anything in those days.

'd also be interested to know how adults and teenagers coped with their disabilities yrs ago. Did they have carers because if they did, there weren't a great of support for the carers either? If you find anything out about the lives of people with disabilities in the past, please drop an email on sarajgorman@google.com or Facebook sarajgorman@gmail.com. Thank you very much if you would like to share stories with me. We can share a lot of our own experiences if you are happy to do so. Something you have read, seen or saw may have caught your eye, which could be something to do with what I write about on this website. If you would like to email me, you can write to me about what you want.

I have told you what happened in my childhood what has changed. What about the things that happened to people with learning disabilities before people like myself now were even born? It can be about children, teenagers and adults in those times over any subject. For eg People with disabilities weren't allowed to live alone, I don't think there were support workers to support them. Sadly a lot of them live in homes, hospitals and etc because not a lot of their families may not be able to cope with them.

With me it could also have been the heavy tablets I was taking at that time. I couldn't pay attention to anyone or anything in the day but as high as a kite keeping everyone awake at night. I was also suffering bad behavior problems, which could have been another thing my tablets could be to blame for. Someone else whose suffering the same thing as me as what I did, their effects could be caused by certain foods for eg. Maybe some people suffer their effects without their certain medicines and food. Like I have said it would have been a boring world if we would have suffered all the same things. Having said there are other effects as well as behavior problems, hyperactive, lack of communication and understanding. There other causes of these effects I guess as well as tablets and food. I would be so grateful if someone could send me an email if they found anything, thank you so much. sarajgorman@gmail.com.

What do we learn from experiences from the past for the future?
Find out how medicines and foods can affect different people's health problems and disabilities? Find out why some people have these effects without their certain medicines and foods?
What should we have known and what do we need to know about helping people to look after their health problems and disabilities?
All I can think of now is having learning disability nurses should be not only in school but also in colleges and work placements as well. Mind you I think I have seen disabilities nurses in the colleges though. Please drop me an email if you know any information about that, thank you.

More regular check-ups, gentle exercise and diet programs to match with the health problems and disabilities.
We need things that help people learning disabilities to relax to be able to cope with the good and bad times in their lives.

Dyspraxia page.

What is Dyspraxia?

Dyspraxia is a hard disability and mental problem to explain and understand. Many people have already lived  
with Dyspraxia our lives being misunderstood and being told that we are a danger to society. The world understands that the world can know everything right away. No one is blaming anyone but if Dyspraxia was understood many years, we may have had the right support and may not have been classed health hazards and useless people. This disability has caused us to be made to feel guilty for things we can't help and also caused us be hated by the world. We understand it's understandable in one way for the health and safety of others but not the fault on purpose of the people who have the disabilities. The awareness is good but all very well to raise when there's not the money in the world to support it. One thing is raising understanding of Dyspraxia so we can be at least understood for what our disability is about.

Dyspraxia is when people are unaware of the world around them. It's too easy to not look where you're going, bang into things and people around you. People with Dyspraxia can find physical and mental skills hard. Dyspraxia is mostly misunderstood as been a danger to society, which you are but with the right support you can get by in life.
 The reason for Dyspraxia being misunderstood is because it's a hidden disability. Yet with Dyspraxia being a lot to do with the body and brain, even though it's hidden because people can walk and talk it's more major than those disabilities who need 24-hour care in everything. The advantage is that people with Dyspraxia have the ability though to ask for help if we need it. There's just a wide circle of skills we find hard. The cause of being misunderstood is the fact we can walk and talk so people think we can manage our lives the same as them. Dyspraxia is a Motor skill and co -ordination disability but it is also can be a reading and writing disability not much different to dyslexia.

For eg; a baby may find it hard to roll over, take longer to stand up and balance, walking, climbing, slower to talk and be understood.

Exercise may be harder to access, some people may only manage swimming, exercise or and even horse riding. Some people may not manage to ride a real bike. Some people may find it hard to hop, jump, run fast and even skip. Some people may find it hard to throw and catch a ball. Some people may find it hard to stand for a long time.

Children may be slower to walk up and down stairs safety without support. There are some stairs even adults and teenagers may not be able to manage without support. Some stairs can be harder for some people to manage than others. Some people find it hard to dress, tie shoe laces and etc.

 For most of us it can affect our lives with not being able to drive a car and not being able to have children because of carrying and lifting. As time goes on support get's better in some ways but not in others. On the other hands with the cuts the government is making it's hard to say what the future is.

Other examples

• Doing jigsaws
• Gripping pencils
• Playing games
• Mixing with people
• communicating 
• Reading
• Writing
• Emotional problems
• Poor short term memory
• Using a knife and fork
• Carrying hot drinks in the left hand or and you may be only able to carry one hot drink at a time.
• Personnel care for eg; cleaning teeth, washing hair, shaving, cutting toe nails and etc.
• Emptying the Hoover and putting it back together again.
• Finding it hard to understand people and make friends.
• Poor vision
• Sensitive to light
• Sensitive to noise
• Sensitive to touch
• Sensitive to taste
• Lack of awareness in a body positive, space and spatial relationships.
• Hard to take in information.
• Hard to keep tidy.
• Cooking for eg; carrying heavy joints out of the oven, chopping up and straining veg.
• Hard to learn sounds, movements, and proofreading.
• Hard to concentrate on too many things at once.
• Slow to do a job and finish it.
• Daydream be in a world of our own.
• Find hard to listen to people in groups and take in what they say.
• Finding hard to understand people and be understood by them. 
•  Change can take a while to get used to whether it's good or bad.
• Good and bad days for eg; something we managed great yesterday we are coping really bad today.
• Some skills we just never manage but others we manage for life.
• We may get frustrated and angry easy.
• We just might give up if people give up on us too easy.
• We may be stressed and anxious easy.
• We may feel low in our self-esteem. 
• We may get upset easily.

Other awarenesses of the disability.
Some people with Dyspraxia have flat feet but I also have wide feet. I have really bad problems getting shoes to fit me. Some people even find it hard to type and grip the mouse on a computer. My problem can be I type so fast I don't notice my spelling mistakes and the words I have missed out of sentences. Some people find it hard to plan things. Some of us have poor relocating cannot look quickly and effectively from one object to other, looking from the television to magazine.

Although there seems to be a lot of things that we find hard, there are some things that get better with our lives. I still remember as a child finding it hard for a lot of years cutting meat up with a knife and fork. In some cases, if someone is on some medications the side effects can make life even harder for them. If you have a lot of problems with hands, some medications can make then worse, which make some people shake.  Not everyone finds the same things hard and not everyone finds the same things easy. I even find some things I just have good days and bad. Strangely in some things, there are some weaknesses that can turn into confidences because with this being a lifetime disability you become used to what you can and can't cope. The fact that we are keen, willing people because we find so many things hard we don't give up until we achieve what we want to. Sometimes though society gives up on us. To start with it may seem hard to believe that there are positives in Dyspraxia but it takes a long time to believe in that, your disability and most of all yourself. You can find so many things hard yet it's to believe the bad as well as the good because you don't appear to strangers to have disabilities.

Our lives aren't all black and white there are positives about us yet some are from the things we do find hard.

• Some things that we may see different to other people can be right.
• We find it easy to get along with people if they understand us and we understand them.
• People need to give themselves time and us time to get to know one another.
• We can be carrying people who need support as much or if not more than us.
• We have powerful and creative imagination in our daydreams.
• We are very keen learners despite finding learning hard, nothing stops us.
• We have good long-term memories.
• We can create for eg; creative writing art painting and drawing. 

The causes of Dyspraxia.

As far as I know, Dyspraxia is caused by lack of org Xen to the brain at birth or when a baby is born too early. I think this can be linked to epilepsy or and a stroke. I think are many other causes of Dyspraxia.

Different forms of Dyspraxia.

It sounds as if the world has a lot to learn about Dyspraxia, which is hardly surprising as it's a hard disability to understand and explain. Just because I am Dyspraxia, doesn't mean I know everything about it. In my respects, the world knows more than me. What I do know is how it has affected my life. I am glad to say now it has opened up now. There may have been thousands of children in my school, I would have been aware but I doubt it. I know what it's like to feel so alone even though you are more than likely not. Bullying never seems to stop because you look and or seem different to other children. Even by adults you're so misunderstood because quite rightly even adult expects to see a normal child, whatever normal is at the end of the day. Putting yourself in the shoes of parents, life can be a jigsaw puzzle for them when their child is slow at learning or and they know what their disabilities and health problems are.

Movements are to do with Motor skills, Co-ordination and balance. For eg; opening a tin with a can opener.
Language is speech how we sound, make ourselves understood and misunderstood mostly the cases are.
Perception is Understanding and or misunderstanding others, messages, the world around us and etc.
It's more likely possible to have all of those forms of Dyspraxia as I have found all those things hard through my life. Having said that when you have a good many other disabilities it can be hard to say what causes what. For eg; I could either Asperger Syndrome or and ADHD, Dyslexia, Epilepsy as well as Dyspraxia. could have one form of Dyspraxia, two or all three. I know what I read about Dyspraxia sounds like me.

Sometimes when I am speaking I find it hard to swallow when I speak therefore no understands me. I have always had problems with my tongue, teeth, and lips which goes very dry as skin becomes loose. Even though I feed myself, I'm still very messy eater. As a very small child I found very hard grip a knife and fork I think food used to go everywhere other than my mouth over the floor everywhere, although I don't see how I've always loved my food too much and ate too much.

Some words I may say may not come out correct but may not be far off, otherwise, I'm well misunderstood. Sometimes I may talk too quiet in case I don't sound like how I want to sound like. Yet when I am sure of myself it works opposite I can be too loud.   

Some famous people with Dyspraxia.

Daniel Radcliffle who plays Harry Potter, David Bailey who takes pictures, Florence Welch, Hannah McDonnell actor, Helen Burns character out of Jane Eyre, Samuel Taylor Coleridge poet, CK Chestern, Ern  est Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, and George Orwell writer.

Disability Awareness page.

This page is for people with dyspraxia and other things linked to it such as Autism, Epilepsy, ADHD, Dyslexia or and etc. It is also written for people who are in the lives of people with these conditions such as parents, families, friends, partners, carers, social workers, support workers or and etc. 



My disability did affect me a lot as a child. I have come a long way, I still have a long way to go. I have always been slow with education and everyday skills. It was when I left school I started to learn how to be independent. Having been bullied at school, I had changed schools a lot but I was still bullied a lot. I’m now very happy to say that I haven’t been bullied during my college days so far. If anything I have learned more and more easily since I have left school than when I was there.

My Auntie’s son Luke taught me how to tie my shoelaces when I was twenty years old, he was only ten. I felt such a fool. It was as if I was a child that was staying a child. Now I have achieved more skills since then I am slowly starting to feel like an adult. I am very grateful to Luke, still better late than never. I used to feel ashamed; this kind of problems encouraged bullying in school. They never understood why I found things harder than most children, well it felt that way to me at the time. Maybe they were the ones with the problems, not just me, otherwise, why did we go to special schools?

My disability has always affected my road sense. I have improved to what I used to be but I still get nervous on busy main roads. I have never been able to ride a bike or drive a car and that will never happen. I can travel through on airplanes, coaches, buses, trains, trams, cars and etc. My disability affects my reflexes, I can’t carry two cups with hot drinks in at once. I can only carry one cup at a time. I have to use my right hand because of my left-hand shakes more than my right. I can’t grip very well with my left hand, it shakes and slips. Now I would say only for about a year or two, my family have discovered that I could be dyspraxia, which to do with hands and even balance. For eg banging into things and people, like I have said with grip, shakes of the hands and cor-anation where you only do one thing at a time, whether it's with your mind or your body. I can be very clumsily at times. I haven't got round to being diagnosed yet. I've had this problem all my life, no one knew until about a year ago that I could have dyspraxia.

It shows how much awareness there was twenty - thirty years ago, which is now. Still better late than never but like I say I need to be diagnosed yet. At the end of the day education is slower than I am, why does it take years to find things out? Still, we can find everything out at once, that's too much to ask. If you or someone you know are the same as me in any way, please drop me an email on sarajgorman@gmail.com I will be very interested to hear your story about your disability on how you cope with it, whoever you are and whatever age you are.

I have never been very good with directions but I am better than I used to be.I will always have the disability I have always had but I make progress each day, which makes me better than I used to be. I used to get angry and upset when not able to do things. Now I can accept the things I can’t do because there have been so many skills I have learned in the last ten years and maybe slightly more. I accept that there’s no way I would be able to have children and drive a car. I think today’s society has made me accept that. It’s unsafe world to bring children up and also there is too much traffic on the roads today. At the end of the da, there are still quite a lot of skills that I could have a chance to achieve in the long term future. What skills, who knows!
I didn't cope most children, I felt as if they were having a better time than I was. I don’t think now that was the case. I may have egged them on to bully me without realizing what I had done was wrong. I could not communicate with anyone, not even myself, they didn't understand me either. I weren't cope with playing games or reading books. Now I understand things better than I used to. I think I still find games hard to understand though.
I can just about cope with my own flat, I have all kinds of friends, I travel independently and I do my own shopping. I am attending college, doing English, creative writing and a computer course. I like drawing and painting. I am hoping to get some training for work so hopefully with the right help me I could become a writer. I am a lot happier and less frustrated compared to how I used to feel.