I know people who have Dyspraxia, officially known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. Not visible at first sight. Those affected seems to be clumsy. Learning new abilities takes longer because they stay more into the manual side. The automatic side have difficulties to get in. There is also the verbal dyspraxia that affect the people I know. The explanation for verbal dyspraxia was interesting: in the brain, the message was clear. When the message goes to destination, the muscles are not efficient in decoding the message. So, the speech is affected by the muscles. It result in a quite different pattern of speech. I often say, for one of the person I know who have it, that she is like Yoda doing Shatnerism.
It is an adaptation and a lot of learning while living near that kind of person. It affect the sufferers for ttheir whole life. No cure, not much long term services. It demand a lot of discipline for helping those affected. A lot of physical therapy. By chance, it is often made by play. Play help for so many things, not just for those with dyspraxia!
I thought that finding role model would be interesting. Daniel Radcliffe, the famous actor of Harry Potter fame, was not successful. He didn't bring interest. Florence Welch, from Florence and the Machine was meet with more interests. Well, when a person have musical interest, it is fitting to like people in that field! It was only the two persons I knew that have this problem. On the fictional side, there is one very recent companion of Doctor Who who have the condition (Ryan Sinclair, in 2018). It was nice to see a fictional character being in this position. It is just not for all audience.
Otherwise, I found another actor who have the condition (Will Poulter, The Chronicle of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, The Revenant, We're the Millers). There is an UK Politician (Emma Lewell-Buck) and an rugby player (Ellis Genge). What surprise me is model Cara Delevigne (of Luc Besson, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets). I wonder why those success and well known people comes mainly from the UK. Is there more ease to get the diagnosis and get better there?
It is just sad that there is no easy solution for Developmental Coordiantion Disorder. It is not the only condition that are not really known or where there isn't much research on. Disphasia, allergies and juvenal arthritis are other examples of conditions that would benefit from research.
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