@Melgar, I am really inspired to see you have dyspraxia in there in your interesting list!
. My first born has dyspraxia, and I am super anxious that he develop IR and metabolic disease, as I cannot see him being able to deal with the formidable practical detail and tasks that treating for T2D or even prediabetes entails. As you deal with it very well obviously it gives me hope! any tips on dealing with metabolic disease, and def the prevention of, with dyspraxia would be much appreciated! I am very anxious about this, but do try to - mask! - that anxiety for sure. ps my favourite take on dyspraxia is from a French website tagline, "Dyspraxique mais fantastique!'. Bless!
How it is for me - I don't know where my body is in space. I cannot play sports. As far as my dyspraxia goes, I have difficulty with balance, which led to many injuries. I cannot do formal dancing, or follow physical instructions which require a sequence of events. I struggle significantly with physical sequencing in general. It's difficult to separate my difficulties from my autistic traits and my ADHD so I'm not sure how they interact. They are all, of course, neurodevelopment conditions. Any one of the above mentioned conditions can affect processing speed and executive function or other functions such as Auditory processing, visual processing , speech and memory. This plays out in other diagnostic measures such as IQ testing. My IQ scoring was spiky across all the measurable points, such as executive function, memory, spacial , verbal etc, due to those deficits. I believe they call it dis- harmonic results. So in effect, IQ scoring cannot be trusted, because one's brain is wired differently. I had very high scores and very low ones, so the mean score could not be assessed accurately.
I'm very aware that what I'm about to say is overly simplistic - so very briefly instead, the brain of a neurotypical person will complete a task that typically follows a brain pathway, say A ,B and reaches the result at point C. In someone with a neurodivergent brain , the pathway may have to follow a different root , so instead of ABC , the brain of a neurodivergent person may have to travel from A , F , D to reach point C. So it takes the brain longer to process. This is when you find people who are autistic, ADHD or Dyspraxic, with quirks like tasting smells or having to move to think, simply because of this neurodivergence.
As one gets older you develop coping skills to counter so called deficits. We live in a world that is not built for us. So we adapt. I struggled significantly when I was much younger, but as I have aged I have developed coping strategies - masking. I'm a 'high masker' . I've had to adapt to function in a NT world and are judged by NT standards. So we appear odd, weird or dysfunctional.
So I have gone on, but depending on severity , we counter those deficits.
I hope that makes sense.
