Chaos

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One of the things that annoys me the most about having dyspraxia is the way that other people react to this fact.  Its easy for me to accept it, but others, not so much.

I've never had much of a close relationship with a lot of my friends at school,  I have 2 that are my best friends, a few that are actual friends, a person who is an incredibly intelligent girl who won't seem to understand the fact that she is certainly not stupid, and a pathological liar who is also incredibly patronising.  Most of the time I am treated as though I'm stupid and strange in a bad way.

For whatever reason, I thought it would be a good idea to tell them about my dyspraxia, to get it off my chest and because it impacts my everyday life, I didn't see the harm in it.  However, when these people who already treated me as if I had something seriously wrong with me heard that there was actually something different about me, you can imagine what happened, they didn't really seem to take it understandingly (is that a word? idk)

Isn't it strange how people can treat you entirely different when they find out about something different about you?  Like, I'm the exact same person that I was 5 minutes ago before I told them about my dyspraxia, yet after I say it they suddenly act like I'm a different person.  I know that this is a problem faced by a lot of people for many different reasons and it seriously annoys me half to death.

I'm not saying that, if you are reading this because you also have dyspraxia, that you shouldn't tell your friends about it.  Telling my closer friends has been good because it means that they know what's going on and why I sometimes walk into things etc. and has helped me to get this stuff off my chest, but telling some of my less close  friends has not ended well for me, mainly because they don't really know what dyspraxia is and are incredibly quick to judge as to what it could be.

unfortunately, there's no easy way to go back from telling them about my dyspraxia, but hey, I don't have to deal with them for much longer; when I leave school after year 13 I probably will lose touch with them. 

anyhoo, if your in the uk, I hope your having a good half term, and if not I hope you are also well

bysie bye