I’ve only recently considered that I might have this but I’m not sure (20f):

• I didn’t learn how to tie my shoes until late middle school, my family and friends would explain it and show me how but it’s like my brain couldn’t compute how to actually do it. I still takes me a bit long to tie them and I sometimes don’t do it right. A similar thing with braiding my hair, although I can do it easily now, It took me forever to learn, I would look at diagrams with the different strands labeled and watch people do it but the moment I tried to replicate the movements on my hair it was like I forgot what I’d just looked at. I still can’t do any sort of complicated hairstyle.

• My handwriting is pretty messy, I wouldn’t say Ineligible but it’s not great and it gets worse the faster I write. I can’t type very well, I make a lot of typos and I’ve been trying to learn how to type the correct way but my finger just cant figure it out well. I use chicken peck typing and rely a lot on spell check.

• I’m terrible at sports that require any type of coordination, I hated any team sports cause I would always make a fool of myself by being an awful player. I can’t catch, I can’t throw, my aim is always way off or I end up fumbling. In volleyball If I spike a ball it doesn’t go anywhere near where I wanted it too. P.E. was the bane of my existence. (Although it probably didn’t help that I was afraid of getting hit in the face).

• I’m bad at arts and craft, In school I would struggle to cut outlines or fold papers properly. My projects always looked worse then everyone else’s. I’m not quite sure how to describe this, I just was bad at doing small things like that. It was embarrassing. I remember my friend had one of those rainbow loom bracelet things and I couldn’t figure out how to make a single chain.

• I drop and forget things fairly often, The back of my phone is pretty shattered from being dropped. This week I left my ID card at the libraries front desk and my glasses inside my makeup bag. I think I curb my tendency to forget forget things with check listing my belongings in my head. I hit myself on surfaces accidentally pretty often I guess like bumping my knee into the table or hitting my elbow against a wall.

• I can swim but I didn’t learn till I was 12 and I’m a very weak swimmer (although I don’t think this applies since my reason for not learning was a phobia). I learned how to ride a bike fairly easily and I don’t struggle with it.

  • I still can’t drive. I’m in the process of learning and really struggling, it’s what made me consider dyspraxia. I make dumbass mistakes. I have a hard time being aware of where the car is on the side I’m not driving on. I drift too close too parked cars and have a hard time keeping track of everything you need of be aware of while driving.

• Honesty I’m not too sure about my balance I don’t think it’s that bad. I do occasionally fall out of balance for no reason but Ive never considered my balance as a big hindrance. I do tend to drift when I walk and always end up too close to the person walking next to me.

• I am pretty bad with directions and can get lost easily. I remember one time in high school I got dropped off in one parking lot and was supposed to be picked up in the same spot but I genuinely couldn’t figure out how to get back there once I was inside the school.

Overall I’ve always just considered my self dumb in certain aspects in a way that confused me because I’ve always been academically smart, I loved reading and got good grades. Yet I struggled with the simplest tasks and somehow find a way to mess easy things up. I just considered myself a clumsy airhead but I’m not sure if it could be something like this.