A question for dyspraxics.

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I rode in the passenger's seat today whit my wife driving and it made me think about this:

Does anybody else that is dyspraxic have motion sickness? I only realized a couple of years ago that I have it. I always wondered why I got sick in cars, but I never "threw up," so I didn't think that it was motion sickness because everyone that I know with motion sickness did just that. I only found out that I was dyspraxic a couple of months ago and today I just put two and two together. I think that the dyspraxia is causing the motion sickness. I, also, don't get sick when I'm driving, only when others are. Any thoughts are appreciated.

I don't really know what causes dyspraxia, but motion sickness is related to vestibular and/or visual processing problems. (I have dyspraxia and vestibular processing problems.)

I just googled it and they actually use motion sickness drugs to treat dyspraxia. Question answered?

Wow. Interesting link. I also have motion sickness but never throw up and I am quite clumsy let us just say but no one has ever diagnosed me with dyspraxia. Anyway yes, sounds like you're right.

I have dyspraxia and this ride is one of my favourites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-06965XXQ&feature=related

I've never felt sick on it!

I'm Dyspraxic and I used to get travel sickness in cars, but I don't so much now because I get on buses a lot and so I think I've got so used to always travelling.

Sometimes I feel sick when it's on my mind. Like when I went on a coach holiday, I physically didn't feel sick, but because I was so worried about feeling sick on my holiday, I actually did come over funny, but I didn't really feel sick. It was just a psychological thing.

I don't know if I have that but I do get motion sickness a lot, not just from cars but also from certain kinds of video games and videos.

People who have developmental problems with the vestibular system (which would be the main cause of motion sickness) also frequently have issues with proprioception. The dyspraxia is often a combined effect of dysfunction in the two systems, although perhaps more associated with the latter. So, while the dyspraxia might not directly cause the motion sickness (although I can't imagine it helping either), it's vestibular dysfunction that is your main culprit.

Odd. My youngest son has dyspraxia, but has never gotten motion sickness. He, in fact, loved riding in cars so much (which neither of his brothers ever liked when very young, yet one always got car sick, and neither of them has dyspraxia) we used to take them all out for rides to get the older two to sleep, and after hours on end, he'd be wide awake. He loves riding around so much, in fact, that he rarely falls asleep in vehicles.

My theory has always been that I get nauseous when I'm riding in a car because I have severe anxiety about being in cars, and at least when I'm driving I have some control, so I'm not as anxious.

Same goes for planes. And I'm not afraid of flying. I love to fly. It's the crashing part that frightens me. I get over the feeling when we're leveled off and there's no turbulence.

I'm assuming that "dyspraxia" is a fancy word for "clumsy", and I've always been legendarily clumsy, but have never had a problem with motion sickness or car sickness. Rode a bicycle okay when I was a kid. I've been in boats on the river a lot, only once out on the Gulf of Mexico, and it was a very calm day. I am afraid of heights, and nobody's ever going to get me onto an airplane. Once I caught a glimpse of moving water between the ties of a (low) railroad trestle, and got such bad vertigo that I had to crawl the rest of the way across, after lying flat on the ties for a few minutes until I was a little better. On a bad day, just being near the top step of a stepladder in the middle of a room scares me (if it's next to the wall, where I can put one hand on the wall for stability, not a problem).

Yes, dyspraxic is a word for "clumsy". It's not run-of-the-mill clumsiness, such as you'd see in the average kid, but extreme clumsiness of the sort that you might not learn to walk until you were eighteen months old or older; or not learn to ride a bike until your teens (or ever), or have unreadable handwriting, or not be able to run smoothly without a lot of practice.

I'm mildly dyspraxic--specifically, gross-motor dyspraxia--which makes mine a typical case. My traits:

--Learned to walk at about thirteen months, which is within the normal range, but had poor balance and often fell.
--Loose joints (hypermobility) resulted in frequent ankle sprains as a kid.
--Significantly below-average in ability to balance on one foot.
--Unable to run smoothly; likely to fall if not paying close attention.
--Learned to ride a bicycle at age 13.
--Unable to dribble a ball without close concentration.
--Very low ability to throw or catch a ball.
--Learned to drive a car at age 25 with the help of special instructor; had three accidents within a year (two of which were minor collisions with parked cars, the third of which happened on a slick road during winter and totaled the car). Currently do not drive.
--Unable to play most team sports, which require multi-tasking. Much better at individual sports involving repetitive actions which can be automatized: Walking, swimming, cycling.
--After I had reached my adult height, my motor skills gradually began improving. I can now run smoothly, balance along a curb, walk for long periods of time, ride a bicycle for transportation, and no longer regularly sprain my ankles.

I don't have fine-motor dyspraxia. I have a fast typing speed, neat handwriting, and a good ability to do small crafts like needlepoint and crochet. I don't know why only the large movements are affected when the small-scale ones are high-average or even superior range; but I know I'm an example of the fact that this can happen. After all, lots of kids with horrible handwriting are great at sports; so why can't it be the other way around too?

As for motion-sickness: Yes. I am extremely vulnerable to motion-sickness. Thankfully I am also pretty good at not losing my lunch.

Thank you, Callista!

Yes, I'm dyspraxic. I still can't catch a ball: even when it hits my hand, my fingers don't close on it and it bounces off. I don't throw well, either. Once used two hands to try to throw a basketball into a basket, and it bounced off the backboard into my face and broke my glasses. That was typical for me. I do fine with handwriting, typing, needlework, but I think that's all concentrated practice: I was late tying my shoes -- second grade. I can't do team sports, but I'm not particularly athletic even alone. I've been told that I have the mechanical walk and slumped shoulders, and have never been able to dance well. I can drive okay: don't have major accidents because I'm usually hyper-careful. I fall down a lot, or lurch when getting out of chairs, or changing direction, so I walk carefully too, most of the time.

And I've never had motion sickness, in terms of nausea anyway. I had that one instance of vertigo, and _then_ I wasn't nauseous, just couldn't have stood erect on that trestle literally to save my life. If a train had been coming, I'd have rolled over the side and hit the creek, and probably wouldn't have strained or broken anything: it wasn't that far down.

To Callista: I envy you because you've improved while I seem to have gone from bad to worse. Some NTs asked me why I wasn't placed into a special school despite my weak motor skills. (They meant no malice. They were genuinely curious.)

Once, I told a teacher while chatting that my sense of balance was so horrendous that even my physiotherapist seemed alarmed. She replied that my inner ear might have some defect. According to the Internet, the inner ear is the culprit behind motion sickness.

http://www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/s ... mptoms.php

I'm also dyslexic. Can you tell? These are my symptoms, they seem to be more visual and auditory and that may have something to do with it:

-Poor posture and fatigue. Difficulty in standing for a long time as a result of weak muscle tone. Floppy, unstable round the joints.
bump into things and people
-May use either hand for different tasks at different times
-May talk continuously and repeat themselves. Some people with dyspraxia have difficulty with organising the content and sequence of their language
-unable to pronounce some words
Over-sensitive to light
-Difficulty in distinguishing sounds from background noise. Tendency to be over-sensitive to noise
-Over-sensitive to touch. Can result in dislike of being touched
-Over- or under-sensitive to smell and taste, temperature and pain
-Lack of awareness of body position in space and spatial relationships. Can result in bumping into and tripping over things and people, dropping and spilling things
-Difficulty distinguishing right from left
-Difficulty in planning and organising thought
-Poor memory, especially short-term memory. May forget and lose things
-Unfocused and erratic. Can be messy and cluttered
-Poor sequencing causes problems with maths, reading and spelling and writing reports at work
-Accuracy problems. Difficulty with copying sounds, writing, movements, proofreading
-Difficulty in following instructions, especially more than one at a time
-Difficulty with concentration. May be easily distracted
-May do only one thing at a time properly, though may try to do many things at once
-Slow to finish a task. May daydream and wander about aimlessly
-Difficulty in listening to people, especially in large groups. Can be tactless, interrupt frequently. Problems with team work
-Difficulty in picking up non-verbal signals or in judging tone or pitch of voice in themselves and or others. Tendency to take things literally. May listen but not understand
-Slow to adapt to new or unpredictable situations. Sometimes avoids them altogether
-Impulsive. Tendency to be easily frustrated, wanting immediate gratification
-Tendency to be erratic ñ have 'good and bad days'
-Tendency to opt out of things that are too difficult
-Tend to get stressed, depressed and anxious easily
-May have difficulty sleeping
-Prone to low self-esteem, emotional outbursts, phobias, fears, obsessions, compulsions and addictive behaviour

Sorry, I didn't think the list would be that long.

Dyspraxia here, and I get real bad motion sickness. I suppose there could be a connection there.

As I've grown older, I've gotten much better about the motion sickness, but it'll still trigger if I'm looking inside the vehicle too much (especially if I try reading).