#DCD/Dyspraxia in Real Life: Twitter Users’ Unprompted Expression of Experiences With Motor Differences

Little is known about adults’ experiences with developmental coordination disorder (DCD; sometimes also referred to as dyspraxia). Social media an accessible opportunity for those who identify dyspraxic or having DCD provide valuable insight into the lifespan impact of this condition on functional ability, participation, compensatory strategies, and well-being. We used Twitter research application programming interface users self-identified keywords Developmental Coordination Disorder, #DCD, #dyspraxic (or # dyspraxia), clumsy in their profile descriptions between October 10 November 10, 2021. During that period, 818 tweets were harvested 524 remaining after removing duplicates (e.g., multiple promotions a single resource) unrelated tweets. They labeled according motor differences ( general motor, coordination, fine skills, oral manual dexterity, driving, gross movement pain fatigue, posture balance, lower extremity ); advocacy/awareness, support others, resources, information, education, intervention, accommodation, work other related topics stimming sensory, co-occurrence diagnostic overlap, cognitive, social communication speech, emotional mental health ). The DCD/dyspraxic community has clearly identified lifelong across contexts. shared strategies could help offered experience co-occurring conditions cognitive/emotional sequelae challenges.