What Is It Like Having Dyspraxia? Zarah's Story | BBC The Social

Dyspraxia may be commonly known as “the clumsy disease” but how does a person who lives with the condition feel? Zarah has suffered countless spillages and injuries due to dyspraxia, and explains more here.

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[lackerry]

Her personality is so real and contagious 😃she spoke about my whole life lol

[glasgowcreativecoaching]

Thanks for this as someone who has Dyspraxia and professional who is glasgow-based supporting Dyspraxic adults amongst others this is great awareness.

[AwesomeHyperSonic]

Great video, but Dyspraxia is a disability rather than a disease. You can’t catch Dyspraxia like you can a cold or stomach bug.

[AdamAndNoahLearningBox]

I have dyspraxia with maths difficulties .. I failed my driving text 12 times because I wasn't always able to tell how far away I was from road markings and other cars. I got diagnosed back in UK for struggling to structure my paragraphs. One of my teachers picked up on it and asked me to go and get tested

[cxmxg]

Appreciate this, but was the music really necessary? Sooo loud

[igneousmoon]

I'm dyslexic adhd and autistic, so much of what you describe sounds like me. Staircases are the worst! Sometimes I just don't lift my foot enough when walking 😅
I've fallen down the same Staircase and ended up in hospital many times. Last week I fell down 3 steps and broke my toe 😅
How!? Maybe this is the answer

[ripcactusify]

For me I see it in my words and body a lot. It's like my brain is loading in words but not fast enough so I might see a cup and my silly self will call it "metal cylinder" because all the kitchen words aren't done loading in yet. My favorite: "car land" because I forgot the word for garage. I always feel like I'm smaller or bigger than I actually am so I over/underestimate how far I gotta reach. I'm terrible terrible terrible at rhythm games or any game that requires me to remember what every key is without me physically looking at the key on the keyboard to know where it is. I can't drive but was pressured into getting my drivers license by my mom even though I failed it 4 times after having 3 different driving teachers. I'm autistic as well, and kinda just feel really frustrated like... when a disabled person tells you something about their body and how they can't do something like you can maybe listen to them..?? ok it's crazy that some people can't drive but we exist and the U.S. is hell for us because public transportation who?

[CursedWheelieBin]

Cheers 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
I work with someone who told me he has dyspraxia and this helped give me a wee bit of insight.

[ClementineShmementine]

Taekwondo as a kid, I was into sports. I was an twice exceptional based on my history and the definition. But my handwriting, being told I run funny, walk funny, “LOOK WHERE YOU ARE GOING!” Or “You are making a lot of jokes if your wrist is broken, oh yeah. That is broken” “How did you break your wrist?” “You just fell down a flight of stairs! And are laughing “

[melbird-dwsu]

My daughter has dyspraxia, childhood was one calamity after another. The 'professionals' just referred to it as spacial integration difficulty. Later came the dyslexia and dyscalculia, but they called it by anything but the correct names. Then being on the spectrum, mildly so to speak, but again avoided. It was the professionals that dropped the ball consistently. They didn't want to provide proper education because it cost money to do so. I battled every step of the way to get proper therapies and inclusion, they made this such a painful process. As an adult, we get to discuss these things and understand on a much deeper level, but it pains me that she didn't get a fair chance in those developmental years. Still try to correct those voids, but she has 'resigned', painful.

[kenzen]

Thank you for this. But who's bright idea was it to put music all over Zara's explanation. Not only that, but inappropriate and loud music.
I couldn't focus on what Zara was saying 😔
How distracting and devaluing of the information Zara was so kind to try to impart 🤦‍♂️😔

[danandsarah]

I have it since child hood im 42 now just learnt to get on with it
From dan

[yvonnemccullaghward]

I did not know there was such a thing. Always thought my problem was lack of depth perc eption and or grip-in my hands etc.

[Anonymous_Anon]

I’d be interested to see how much clomipramine/chlorpromazine can treat dyspraxia, to be honest. I do think the latter (the antipsychotic version of chloro-imipramine) improves motor co-ordination and stuff like that.

[paramedicchrisbookseries]

Thank you for sharing, really helpful

[hamzagallo]

I myself have dyslexia and dysgraphia but now I think I have dysspraxia aswell just another thing to add to the list

[clairet]

I think I have this with speech. Only bad with clumsiness sometimes, some times worse than others, but I was never good at sports. Physically I feel like more it just discourages me from doing things with complex steps... seems to go hand in hand with executive dysfunction.

[nuvbqiy]

😮 truly appreciate this video😊
Scheduling to get tested! ❤🎉

[erinjohns]

I have dyspraxia i find it hard to pronounce words i think am saying ot right but am not and aslo my balance

[wandanelson]

Difficult to focus on conversation with the loud music in the background. I stopped at 1.02.