Aspies For Freedom

I was diagnosed at 8, what about everyone else?

I don't know the exact age, but I was under 10.

I dont think i have been diagnosed, but i have been told I have Dyslexia,Dyspraxia,Dyscalculia and aspers syndrome.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

How does your dyspraxia affect you?

does everyone with asperger's have dyspraxia?

My hand eye co-ordination isnt very good, or so i have been told. I'm not relly sure how the whole thing works.

Its probably why my handwriteing is terrible.

No, but it's more common with aspergers than for NTs.


My handwriting is REALLY bad. I got in trouble in school a lot about it. Also I'm left handed so get the pen marks across my hand too.
I am really, really badly clumsy, but my speech isn't too bad.

I always manage to get pen on my hand, evan if i am just writeing something down quickly, i dont know how i do it.

Hehe, me too.

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I can be clumsy and have not so great handwriting but was never diagnosed with Dyspraxia.

I was diagnosed at 11 with 'minimal brain damage' which is now regarded as a part of dyspraxia. I self diagnosed as AS in my late 40's and as result of investigations into that (the psychiatrist I saw agreed I had 'symptoms of AS, but was not 'sufficiently disabled' to 'fit the criteria' was also found to be dyslexic.

I've never been diagnosed dyspraxic, but I've started to wonder.

I've always been physically uncoordinated (both fine and gross motor); in fact, I'm currently repeating my second year of tae kwan do. My handwriting has always been very poor. I can write legibly (although it still looks like a first-grader wrote it), but it takes an absurd amount of time to do so. My hand hurts, and I can't seem to hold a pencil right. I have trouble with balance, walking a straight line, and I can't throw or catch a ball for my life. I've always had trouble with essays on tests (completing them on-time), even though I never do the planning or outlining that others do. In 10th grade, when I took the AP European history exam, I only completed about half the essays. I still (somehow) managed to get a 4, but I presume this must be because I answered all but six of the multiple choice questions.

So, if indeed I do have dyspraxia-related problems, how would I go about getting services from the school for this? I've had all these problems I didn't really have a name for, and now I'm finding that it might be something the school will have sympathy for and help me instead of ignore me, but I have no idea how to go about finding this out.

Please provide input.

I've been told by my teacher at lower secondary that I had really bad handwriting, but I can't see it being much worse that those of other boys.

I think I currently have a much better handwriting than what I had before, not sure why but lately I have just tried to make as much as possible tidy and organized. I figured that I could reduce stress levels that way.