Motor Skill Differences

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Does anyone else think that there are more motor skill problems with aspie women than aspie men?

Doubtful. I think women naturally have better motor skills (most of the time). Just compare an average woman's handwriting to a man's.

I am Autistic and have Partial Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and so do have motor difficulties.

If your mother drank when she was pregnant with you you could have Static Encephalopathy and Aspie.

I have always been clumsy with poor coordination for things such as skipping, playing hopscotch, twister as a child and cannot do any fancy footwork like dancing. If I am under stress or am tired I walk like I am intoxicated and my speech goes bad too. I do not have fear of things like heights but do not like to go fast in things I i cannot control like downhill sledding.

My vision is poor and I have problems with depth perception, not so bad that I can't drive but they are worse when I am stressed or sleepy and cannot drive in either situation.





I was not diagnosed until age 35 and am now 38

Hope this helps

I stutter and stammer a lot when I talk so I don't know could be?

Do you do so even by yourself with no one around? Do you have a pet that you talk to without stuttering and stammering?

I had a friend in High School who stuttered in any setting but especially when he was trying to tell you something important and with urgency he would stutter harder.

I think it depends on whether you mean fine motor or gross motor. I'm extremely clumsy and my gross motor skills are horrible. I trip up and down stairs, over my own feet, I'm terrible at sports, etc. But my fine motor skills are excellent. I'm very good at drawing and painting, my handwriting is fairly neat, I enjoy knitting, sewing, etc.

I would agree. My gross are worse than my fine.

I can type(obviously), clean and dust shelves without breaking anything. But when I am fatigued my fine motor skills wane too.

My dexterity working with crafts and small objects is great...I also have a pretty good re-action time.

DO NOT let me handle your fine china or valuable nick nacks...there is a reason I have nothing but corelle and melmac in my cupboard and I prefer my wine in a plastic cup. I tend to drop things, run into walls, and trip alot.

I consider myself to have poor fine motor skills. They used to be worse though when I was a kid.

I have pretty poor fine and gross motor skills. You mean there are people out there who don't normally get covered in bruises from running into or tripping over things ? I could never do assembly line work. I can do some fine motor skill things-- I can crochet, but I can't knit. My handwriting is pretty bad and not at all nice. But I can type well. Still haven't managed to eat with chop sticks. I don't know my right from my left instictively and I suspect I never will, instead I have a good "cheat"-- I start to make the sign of the cross. The hand you use to make the sign of the cross is always the right hand so thats how I know which hand is my right. I also get lost everywhere. I have NLD too.

My motor skills aren't exactly the best. I run into walls or knock things off shelves sometimes, I mix up left and right on a regular basis and I can't dance. I have tunnel vision and really poor depth perception. However I can catch a flying ball if I concentrate hard enough, My handwriting is pretty neat and I can eat with chopsticks.

If I wore those shoes with the sticks in the bottom I'd be more clumsy too.