Dyspraxia Awareness Week 2021
Today marks the last day of dyspraxia awareness week 2021. I have been posting a bit on Instagram but not at all on Facebook. I guess I was hoping I'd see some posts but sadly haven't seen any, except from fellow dyspraxics. Although I wasn't diagnosed till I was 19, dyspraxia is something that I have had all my life and as a result, I have become used to adapting to daily life; as well as finding different ways to do things. This year’s theme is primary and secondary education, so this blog post will be about my experiences with that. I started infant school aged 4. Although I don't remember much from my first year of school, I do remember in the later years of infant school struggling a lot. I found handwriting hugely difficult and no matter how hard I tried, I could not grip a pencil properly and struggled to form letters. At some point during this time I was diagnosed with dyspraxia but for an unknown reason no one would accept this diagnosis, my mum kept fi...