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We asked, you delivered! Today we hear from Emily and her story with dyspraxia, all part of Dyspraxia Week 2023!
Emily’s Story
My name is Emily and throughout my 30 years of having dyspraxia, when I was younger, I couldn’t quite fully understand what dyspraxia was, as this is what I had. But over the years, I’ve accepted who I am as a person with dyspraxia because, when it comes to the support of medical practitioners and resources on the web, this has helped me overcome my fears about dyspraxia, as I was quite scared when I was young.
When I was older, when it came to loneliness and isolation, I learned how to raise awareness on social media about other people who have dyspraxia or who know someone who has dyspraxia. Over the years, I was actually scared to communicate on the phone because I felt that people would actually laugh at me from the other end or put the phone down because they wouldn’t understand what dyspraxia was. Then I had the support of using the phones, and now my confidence has grown because I can now answer the phones without literally feeling scared, which is the fear I’ve overcome, but it took years.
During the weekend at my cousin’s wedding on September 22–24, this year, I overcame another fear, which was asking people for directions to the hotel the family stayed at. Something in my brain just told me if I don’t ask, then you’re never going to learn things, but the person I asked directions from was so understanding and repeated the directions twice and I felt like I wasn’t rushed at all.
Athe wedding, I saw my family, but also some family that I hadn’t seen in a long time. It was absolutely lovely to see them and speak to them, and it certainly had that positive feeling about it. I gave them a big hug because it sure goes a long way in life and that it becomes appreciated in life. I spoke to my family, and it literally felt like a great thing because it helped my confidence a lot and my social anxiety.
I think when it comes to the right support for dyspraxia with loneliness and isolation, we can overcome this and learn to help others who could be in the same situation. We can go on to do amazing things in life and achieve them, even if it takes years. That does not make us bad people at all. In years to come, I want dyspraxia to have a good name in itself and go so far in life.