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.