10 Reasons Apraxia Sucks

1. Apraxia sucks because when you want something too much, you are guaranteed to screw up and do the opposite of what you need to do.

2. Apraxia sucks because millions of people just want someone that they can talk to and are unable to say that.

3. Apraxia sucks because we are really super smart and schools teach us like we are idiots, totally not able to understand the simplest concept.

4. Apraxia sucks because without speech, people assume we can't hear.  They talk about us the same way you would talk about a pet.

5. Apraxia sucks because, warm or cold, I am unable to simply change my clothes to make myself comfortable.  What that means is that I am always freezing or too hot.

6.  Apraxia sucks because 10-year-olds are supposed to be riding bikes and playing games.  I am so useless at both.

7.  Apraxia sucks because people try to use our Apraxia to justify ignoring us.  They usually believe that we are only able to understand pictures, and they do not talk to us like we are there. 

8. Apraxia sucks because we make so many important things go wrong because we cannot get control.

9.  Apraxia sucks because practically all the treatments we receive for Autism are really pointless.  For example, "make yourself point to green."  I know what green is.  I see where it is, only my hand goes to blue.  And now you think I don't know what green is.

10.  Apraxia sucks because being apraxic always gets in the way of what I want to do and what I want to say.  I am working so hard to spell what I want to say.  Have you listened?