Dyspraxia Awareness Week 2018 – dyspraxia, emotions and anxiety

It’s that time of year again… it’s Dyspraxia Awareness Week (7th– 13th October)! Well, it was when I started writing this… I would have liked to have a blog up during awareness week, but I’ve been so busy lately – especially with starting my Master’s degree.

Firstly, I can’t go without mentioning the fact that at the start of awareness week a dyspraxic character was introduced in Doctor Who! How amazing is that?! I’ve written a bit more about it on my Facebook page, I’ve copied what I’ve written below. (Side-note: I’m writing about how amazing that is and ‘dyspraxic’ still came up as an incorrect spelling on spell-check…)

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Hidden disabilities & blue badge parking

As many of you may have seen in the news recently, some individuals with hidden disabilities will now be eligible for blue badge parking. Whilst this is something really positive, I’ve seen it taken out of context a lot across social media. Disability awareness is something that obviously I’m really passionate about, but I also want to help ensure the information gets out there in the right way. So I thought a good way to get my thoughts across would be in a blog post. Apologies if this comes across as a bit of a rant, but I’ve seen this taken out of context so many times!

(source: https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/adult-social-services/disability/blue-badge/blue-badge.aspx)

When your brain can only process one thing at once – Dyspraxia and multi-tasking

Supposedly women are meant to be better than men at multi-tasking. It’s safe to say I’m one of probably many dyspraxic women who break that myth!

Well, technically no-one can actually multi-task. Multi-tasking, in the literal sense, is in fact a myth. We actually switch between tasks, it’s just that our brain does this very quickly so it appears that we are doing multiple things at once.

An update… and a new page!

Finally, a new blog post! Apologies for how long it has been since my last blog post. I can’t believe the last time I wrote a blog post was in August! I’ve been so busy with uni that I just haven’t had time to blog. I’m planning to blog more over the summer though, I have quite a few ideas and much more time to write them (although saying that, I’ve actually been really busy since finishing my exams last month!)

So for this blog post I thought I’d update you all on what I’ve been doing in terms of awareness raising since I last blogged.

Dyspraxia & laces – what is there to help?

Tying shoe laces is, I feel, one of the most common difficulties talked about in relation to dyspraxia, due to our difficulties with fine motor skills. But what can be done to help? I’ve personally found that there are so many different options out there for different types of laces that it can be hard to know which type to get. In addition, some people may have never heard about some of these laces before. So for that reason I thought I would write a blog where I essentially review different types of ‘laces’ I have used.

From a few bullet points to 30+ blog posts: the background behind the blog

After reading Rosie’s latest blog on how to blog, I thought I’d write a blog about blogging – how I started, why I blog etc. for those of you who would like to find out more.

World Vitiligo Day 2017

I know my usual blog posts are about dyspraxia, but I also have a skin condition called vitiligo which I wanted to blog about. I’ve actually been meaning to write this particular blog post for a couple of years now, but each year I’ve never got round to writing the blog post in time (except this year of course – only just, though!)