I just ranomly found this website when doing random google searches on dyspraxia and I recognise ALOT of the stuff that has been posted on here.
I was diagnosed when I was quite young and statemented when I was about 10 with mild dyspraxia. This mainly came about from getting slaughtered at school for untidy or unreadable handwriting. I've always been very clumsy and poor (despite efforts) at sport. I had always assumed this was a physical thing. A sort of physical version of dyslexia. Since I could do all work on a PC and my dreams of becoming a professional footballer never materialised I assumed the dyspraxia thing would be irrellevent and consigned to being clumsy with scruffy handwriting.
Then recently and especially this week I've found out that the physical stuff is just a sympton of the brain opperating in an entirely different way. Thus, all the "stupid moments" I have are almost all linked to the dyspraxia. The confusion between left and right, the randomly forgetting things, the obsessional interests, the obsession with random facts etc. Suddenly it ALL adds up and makes sense. For years I've thought this stuff was just me being a bit daft and brainless.
The thing is that for years I've ignored it and never been open about it. I've also almost hoped it would just go away. But that has really struck me in the last week is that I can't change it because it IS me. It IS who I am.
So anyway, hello to all and although I'm passed being a "teen". This seems a good place to share stuff.