Questions: 1 August

[vilakins]

1. Do you enjoy dancing?
No, mostly because I'm not very good at it. My legs don't have a good connection to my brain, and I was two before I walked. My Pilates teacher said it's a known thing and told me the name of it which I've forgotten. My legs are strong and fine for most things; I enjoy walking, Pilates, and weight training, but when I used to do aerobics, I just got confused and seized up when there were fast complicated (to me) foot movements.
FWIW my hands totally make up for it.

[Edit] The condition is called dyspraxia here and in most English-speaking countries, and DCD (Developmental Coordination Disorder) in the US and Canada.

Comments

[watervole]

Dispraxia?

[vilakins]

I asked her today and she calls it DCD: Developmental Coordination Disorder. Googling tells me it's also called dyspraxia here*. So, yes, it is! I'm strangely glad to find there's a name for it as I've always found it hard to explain.

* I've googled further and it seems it's DCD in North America - my teacher is from Canada - and dyspraxia here, the UK and Ireland, and probably also Australia.

[imhilien]

Sorry to hear that. I was clumsy for a long time when I was young; I flunked a ballet try out class and I hated netball.

[vilakins]

Me too! I basically hated all sports and phys ed because I was so crap. Netball is such a stupid game anyway, some of the rules like not running with the ball being misread from the original ones. Plus, not letting the players wear sensible shorts? Ugh. I used to deliberately fumble the ball and be sentenced to running around the playing field, which I didn't mind at all as I just walked it.

There isn't a cure for dyspraxia, so if you're no longer clumsy, you're lucky not to have it. It's not improved at all for me.

[imhilien]

I'm sorry things didn't improve for you. I became less clumsy in my 20's.

Netball is still the worst, though.