Brain confusion.

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I feel like the connection between my brain and my hands is a bit garbled. I told my occupational therapist about this but she didn't really take it much further than a suggestion that I have a left-right hemisphere confusion.

When I am writing, my handwriting is awful to begin with, but if I intend to write, say "pizza", I may end up writing "pimka" or something similar. I intend to write a word, but some of the letters I write come out on paper as something not even related (so the letters don't even look like each other). I even get this when I'm typing. While I don't get every word wrong, I have to use speech-to-text software when typing more than a couple of paragraphs, because making so many confusions/mistakes, and having to correct myself is very tiring. I also get exhaustion from writing for more than 1-2 minutes.

I cannot make notes in university lectures because I cannot listen and write at the same time. If I write, I can't interpret incoming sounds, and if I try to interpret incoming sounds, I cannot write. Luckily I have a note-taker in university.

It took me over five years of daily practice to learn how to catch a ball, and I still have difficulty using cutlery and things like threading a needle.

However I can do more large-scale things like running, using gym machines etc. with ease.

I also have a visual processing disorder which means that things like walking down flights of stairs (with exception to the flight of stairs at home as I have been using them for over two years now so I have "learned" how to use them), catching a ball and looking at road maps are difficult for me (I have to walk down stairs slowly, I often miss thrown balls and maps completely dazzle me). I get eye strain, nausea and great discomfort from looking at certain patterns (for example I had to ask my friend to change his stripy shirt because my eyes were going crazy just looking at it), and I also go cross-eyed quite often.

I think all of these things are related, but I cannot work out what exactly is going on. My knowledge of neurology has decreased since I haven't read up about it for a while.

Does anyone have any idea what is going on with me?

I have not exactly the same problems you describe but when I'm speaking more often than not I don't find the word I'm looking for but a similar one. One shrink has told me that's a result of my brain being wired differently, e.g., when searching a term it doesn't deliver the exact one but one that comes close to the original target. Don't know whether the explanation is correct, though.