HELLO ....

[billiekoolkatz123]

Hiya,

 

I am a 27 year old female . I know I already posted but thought i would try and explain some more and see if anyone has had any similar experiences .

 

 

I couldn't seem to write anything last time but im sure you will all understand.

 

 

 

 

 

I have always had behavioural problems as a child and was labelled as naughty. Then at age 13 I got diagnosed as having dyspraxia which I thought would be the answer to my prayers.

 

However dyspraxia wasn't widely known and the school i went to was academic....... and the less academic subjects were not good for me either such as art and pe. I can paint abstract art work but I cannot draw which is of no us in mainstream school! And I did not have enough co ordination to do pe.

 

I was picked on by the teachers and pupils......... the teachers called me lazy and said I was just lazy and did not have Dyspraxia. the other classmates picked one me because they could see i was different.........diagnosis or not..

 

Anyway, it waspretty clear that something else besides this was wrong with me.

 

I have spent years in and out of all sorts of therapies......... starting with a child psychologist before my Dyspraxia diagnosis, hypnosis, cognitive behavioural, counselling . I have read lots of self help books etc etc. I have been told I have depression, ptsd, that this therapy and that therapy will be the answer but so far nothing has worked.

 

I also went to an intensive therapy place where they told me they knew something was wrong but they did not know what but they would try and help me. This failed.

 

I even went to AA as somebody suggested maybe i had a drink problem???????? That turned out to be incorrect.

 

Then a family friend recently suggested that i may have autism or apsergers and that aspergers is interlinked with dyspraxia.

 

 

The more and more I read up about aspergers the more it makes sense. The social isolation at school, not seemign to fit in any where and the manner in which i socialise, if you clal it that. I have bene on the national autistic sight and read about the triad of impairments. Alot of this stuff makes sense.

 

I am not angry at the fact it has not been piccked up, I am just puzzled as i have eben to so many theapists including dyspraxia assessments and a special needs school . But from redaing stuff onhere this doesnt seem to e so uncommon..the misdiagnoisis?

 

I know I should go to the g.p tp get a diagnosis but I am alittle apprehensive as last time the dyspraxia diagnosis didnt really tuen out to be a blessing. Will this diagnois help me, perhaps in combination with he dyspraxia? and can anyone else relate to anything Ive said?

 

This looks like a great site and Im looking forward to explore it some more,

 

 

\thanks

BK

[Tally]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

 

Dyspraxia and AS are commonly confused with each other, as there is a lot of overlap with symptoms. Some social difficulties are part of dyspraxia, and some movement difficulties are normally part of ASD. I guess it really depends which symptoms are most prominent as to what diagnosis fits best. Maybe when you were assessed, your movement difficulties were the ones most noticeable and your social difficulties were missed or interpreted as something else.

 

A diagnosis of dyspraxia could have resulted in some suitable support in school, even if it wasn't quite the right diagnosis. This obviously did not happen when you were in school.

 

As an adult, it can be really hard to get an assessment for AS unless you are in a position to go private. Even with a diagnosis, it can be impossible to get appropriate support or for mental health practitioners to adapt their treatments to suit you. For me, just being aware in my own mind is the thing that has helped me most in understanding what I find hard and that it is not my fault.