#developmental coordination disorder

[fibrospoons]

I opened up the clothes dryer into my face and bruised my forehead

✨Just dyspraxic things✨

[dorianbrightmusic]

okay, minor vent, but can we take a moment to consider how genuinely unnerving having dyspraxia can be? there’s nothing quite as awful as knowing you have to go somewhere after getting off the bus, and that it’s not vaguely in the vicinity, but beyond that, you have no clue how far away you are, nor which way to go. you know you’re in the wrong place, but don’t know where the hell to start to find the right one. there’s something incredibly disconcerting about getting lost in the same city you’ve lived in all your life, especially when it’s barely a city so much as a gangly town with limbs too long to befit its old name. it’s genuinely frustrating to have no idea where you are relative to another place, and all you can do is keep walking and try not to feel.

i know that the existence of gps eliminates any major risks associated with this, but even so, it’s incredibly unsettling.

[mariatrojan]

James from Tabaluga has Dependent personality disorder (DPD), Antisocial personality disorder (ASPD), NPD traits and dyspraxia (DCD)!

My headcanon

[ploobertus]

i wish every mobile app designer a coordination disorder, then lets see if you still put those tiny fucking buttons everywhere that are impossible to press because of my twitchy, shaky and uncontrollable hands 🤗

[clownpuppysposts]

They should create a motor skill that is not hard

[wreckitremy]

Bc this trick is still working so well for me, I'm going to rant about the problems with positive affirmations, and why my trick is better.

You see the problem is, that changing

"I'm the worst!"

To

"I'm the best!"

When something goes wrong, doesn't solve anything. For several reasons

It's still lying to yourself

It's still reinforcing the idea of bad and good oversimplified into a binary

It's still internalizing that you were the main factor in whatever happened

Can be ruined by interpretating as sarcasm

So when something slips from your fingers, I suggest something much more fun.

Blame gravity

Something falls, bc of gravity. It literally wouldn't have happened if gravity didn't exist.

Now that is only part of the trick.

You also have to pretend that gravity is a trickster god. Bc for this to work, you need to see gravity as a trick.

Once it's a trick, it becomes impressive. Like a basketball bouncing around the rim for forever only to fall off the wrong side at the last moment.

Say you drop something after fumbling to catch it for a ridiculous amount of time. When it hits the floor, it's no longer you failed. It's, gravity was better at this game than you. But it was a close game, so close that you can't even be mad. Just impressed.

Anyways blaming your failures on gravity as if it's a trickster god has many better reasons for why it's my favorite coping mechanism

It's not lying bc gravity is heavily involved in more than just dropping things if you think about it

It takes you out of the binary bc trickster gods are neither good nor evil. If you want you can also thank gravity when something goes well

It's acknowledging that there were reasons outside your control that heavily affected the outcome

Cannot be ruined by sarcasm. In fact can often be improved with sarcasm. Sassing gravity is very fun. I recommend the GLaDOS slow clap.

Designed with a disabled person in mind (literally developed this bc of my dyspraxia)

Of course this is limited to things that are affected by gravity, but once you get creative, you can blame gravity for almost any physical thing happening.

So blame gravity today!

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[TEXT ID: this system has dyspraxia and struggles with fine motor skills]

[IMG ID: a blue, rectangular box with the dyspraxia flag on the left - a flag with four diagonal sections that are yellow, green, blue, and purple, the lines separating them are zig-zag shaped - and the text 'this system has dyspraxia and struggles with fine motor skills' on the right.]

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[violentivy]

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[nld-as-insights]

Cooking Part 4: How Do I Avoid Cutting Myself and How Do I Chop Efficiently if I Have Fine Motor Challenges?

When you chop things, hold your non-dominant hand the way chefs do, as pictured below.

Chefs curl the fingers of their non-dominant hand so that the farthest away bones of their fingers are straight up and down, perpendicular to the cutting board. The side of the knife touches the fingernail side of their fingers. When the chef’s fingers are not flat on the cutting board, they are not in the path of a knife that slips.

If you hold your non-dominant hand in an arch with your fingers straight up and down, and you practice cooking for many, many, hours, you will eventually be able to chop faster. If you hold your hand incorrect way that most home cooks hold their hand, with their fingers almost flat as pictured below, it will not be as safe to chop faster.

Cheers,

Julia

[lilyminer]

I think it’s very important for my personal self-acceptance journey to have a good sense of humour about my dyspraxia diagnosis.

Yeah, this disability affects my life in countless confusing and frustrating ways. At the same time the idea that it makes me less intelligent or my thoughts and feelings less worthy of being heard is internalized ableism left over from my childhood. In reality I’m achieving a lot academically and am not running into the limits I excepted to have. . .

It also makes me shit at walking up stairs lol.

[bigender-autism]

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19 ✰ xe/xem or it/its or he/him ✰ autistic, dyspraxic and some kind of tics (???) ✰ UK ✰ aro

I'm autistic and some special interests are Nanbaka, tea, Stardew Valley, Jellycats, and learning (intellectual) disabilities! I'm also a first year uni student and post about that sometimes. Autism and dyspraxia have a big impact on how I study.

Run by a rad inclus and a transandrophobia truther.

Also check out my main @refrainboy and my aromantic blog @aroneu!

[dorianbrightmusic]

New York is a great place to be dyspraxic. All the streets and avenues are numbered – and ordered – and things go in consistent directions. Is it big and sprawling? Yes. But can you also literally count your way to any building? Yes.

Like. If you have no internal map, it’s perfect. It’s not always walkable, but it sure is countable.

[augmentedpolls]

either foot works

[fibrospoons]

Accurate depiction of dyspraxia / developmental coordination disorder (DCD)!

The Everything Goes Wrong Barbie BARBIE (2023), dir. by Greta Gerwig

[binders-and-beanies]

Fun fact when I was evaluated in middle school and not yet diagnosed w dyspraxia bc not enough professionals were taught about it + adulthood made it more obvious. I was diagnosed w smth called stereotypic movement disorder which is more specific to the motor/movement aspects.

It involves impaired motor function like what I still have now but also involuntary movements like essentially motor tics, which I rarely have anymore but had consistently at the time (ppl in school called me “twitchy,” sometimes affectionately and sometimes very not. I even tried adopting it as a gender neutral “name”)

Idk whether to call it a misdiagnosis or just smth that is no longer accurate n didn’t give the full picture/ wasn’t the Best diagnosis. U could in theory have both but it wouldn’t make sense for me personally to be diagnosed w both. Bc yes I met the criteria for that at the time but the issues that rly fucked my life up and continue to fuck my life up are specifically dyspraxia.

Anyway I was reminded of it bc the two are near each other in the DSM as well as in my social work licensure exam prep course and it’s just. Fascinating to me how a disorder that is part of my diagnostic history is like Neighbors w what I ended up actually having. (Kinda like the way people treat dyspraxia as being similar to autism and adhd if they’ve never heard of dyspraxia lol)

One isn’t just part of the other, it’s just that it only explained a couple out of a million symptoms I had/have. N I’m happy to see higher education curriculum evolving n becoming more inclusive n thorough even just within 15 years