Dyspraxia

Another day another diagnosis. How many has it been? I lost track a long time ago...
Depression,
Manic Depression
Diabetes,
Hypoglycemia
Leaky Gut
Candidaisis
Stress disorders,
Bi Polarism
Personality disorder
Schozoid personality
Paranoia
histapenia
Schizophrenia
Over Methylation
Wilson's Disease
Copper poisoning
lead poisoning
Panic Attacks related to self image problems
Low zinc,
Mercury poinsoning
Cushing's syndrome
you get the idea. I dont really care anymore, but this one is interesting

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyspraxia#General_difficulties.

This tracks pretty closley with a lot of experiences. Not an answer, but something to keep an eye on:

Assessment and diagnosis

Speech and language

Developmental verbal dyspraxia is a type of ideational dyspraxia, causing linguistic or phonological impairment [two interesting notes, one, my inability to understand people. I have a very hard time understanding spoken words. I need at least to see the lips move and body language helps. i can hardly understand anyone on the phone. This is why I try to avoid it Cannot understand lyrics in songs at ll unless I read them; two word salad as described by hebephric Sz. When I was severely sick, I uttered almost complete gibberish]. TKey problems include:

Fine motor control

Difficulties with fine motor co-ordination lead to problems with handwriting, which may be due to either ideational or ideo-motor difficulties. Problems associated with this area may include:

• Learning basic movement patterns. [hands rated disabled and severely disabled on the MMPI]
  
• Developing a desired writing speed.
• The acquisition of graphemes – e.g. the letters of the Latin alphabet, as well as numbers.
• Establishing the correct pencil grip [still use a fist- cannot hold it in fingers]
  
• Hand aching while writing

Whole body movement, coordination, and body image

Issues with gross motor coordination mean that major developmental targets including walking, running, climbing and jumping are affected. One area of difficulty involves associative movement, where a passive part of the body moves or twitches in response to a movement in an active part. For example, the support arm and hand twitching as the dominant arm and hand move, or hands turning inwards or outwards to correspond with movements of the feet. Problems associated with this area may include:

• Poor timing. [a lot fo great jokes here...fill in your own].
  
• Poor balance (sometimes even falling over in mid-step). Tripping over one's own feet is also not uncommon.
• Difficulty combining movements into a controlled sequence.
• Difficulty remembering the next movement in a sequence.
• Problems with spatial awareness, or proprioception. [severe problems when really sick. staggering as if drunk]
  
• Some people with dyspraxia have trouble picking up and holding onto simple objects due to poor muscle tone.
• This disorder can cause an individual to be clumsy to the point of knocking things over and bumping into people accidentally.
• Dyspraxics may also have trouble determining the distance between them and other objects.^{[citation needed] [when it gets bad, everything is 2 dimensional].}
  
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General difficulties

Dyspraxic people may have Sensory Integration Dysfunction, a condition that creates abnormal oversensitivity or undersensitivity to physical stimuli, such as touch, light, and sound^{[citation needed]}. This may manifest itself as an inability to tolerate certain textures such as sandpaper or certain fabrics, or even being touched by another individual (in the case of touch oversensitivity) or may require the consistent use of sunglasses outdoors since sunlight may be intense enough to cause discomfort to a dyspraxic (in the case of light oversensitivity). An aversion to loud music and naturally loud environments (such as clubs and bars) is typical behavior of a dyspraxic individual who suffers from auditory oversensitivity, while only being comfortable in unusually warm or cold environments is typical of a dyspraxic with temperature oversensitivity. This typically occurs if the dyspraxia is comorbid to an autistic spectrum disorder (PDD) such as autistic disorder or Asperger syndrome^{[citation needed]}.

Dyspraxic people sometimes have difficulty moderating the amount of sensory information that their body is constantly sending them, so as a result these people are prone to panic attacks^{[citation needed]}. Having other autistic traits (which is common with dyspraxia and related conditions^{[citation needed]}) may also contribute to sensory-induced panic attacks.

Moderate to extreme difficulty doing physical tasks is experienced by dyspraxics, and fatigue is common because so much extra energy is expended while trying to execute physical movements correctly.^[5] Some (but not all) dyspraxics suffer from hypotonia, which in this case is chronically low muscle tone caused by dyspraxia^{[citation needed]}. People with this condition have very low muscle strength and endurance (even in comparison with other dyspraxics) and even the simplest physical activities may quickly cause soreness and fatigue, depending on the severity of the hypotonia. Hypotonia may worsen a dyspraxic's already poor balance to the point where it is necessary to constantly lean on sturdy objects for support^{[citation needed]}.

Dyspraxics may wish to live alongside others, although they often find it difficult. They can be messy and cluttered with a tendency to outburst including aggression, 'good and bad days' (mood swings) and difficulty in understanding the meaning of everyday interactions within a household^[6] Because of this, they sometimes end up arguing with people they care deeply about and regretting it when the mood swing is over.

Often, their moods do not last too long, but they are very intense. When angered, a dyspraxic may feel beyond furious but soon the mood will be over and he\she may regret things they did when they were angry^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Overlap with other conditions

Dyspraxics may have other difficulties that are not due to dyspraxia itself but often co-exist with it. They may have characteristics of dyslexia (difficulty with reading and spelling), dyscalculia (difficulty with mathematics), expressive language disorder (difficulty with verbal expression), ADHD (poor attention span), or Asperger syndrome (poor social cognition and a literal understanding of language, making it hard to understand idioms or sarcasm). However, they are unlikely to have problems in all of these areas. The pattern of difficulty varies widely from person to person, and it is important to understand that a major weakness for one dyspraxic can be a strength or gift for another. For example, while some dyspraxics have difficulty with reading and spelling due to an overlap with dyslexia, or numeracy due to an overlap with dyscalculia, others may have brilliant reading and spelling or mathematical abilities. Similarly, some have autistic traits such as lacking an appreciation of irony or social cues, while others thrive on an ironic sense of humour as a bonding tool and a means of coping.^[7]

Frustration and low self-esteem are common to many dyspraxics, whatever their profile of difficulties. ^[8]