Motor clumsiness

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aspie = aspie
other = all elsewhere on the autistic spectrum

If you are on the spectrum I guess:

Are you clumsy?
If not, did you have motor clumsiness sometime in your past?

If you are not an aspie, could you state in your answer that you're not? Everyone who doesn't state that he or she is not an aspie I'll consider aspie regardless of whether they're or are not.

I decided to differentiate between aspies and non-aspies as I assume that there is no difference and to prove that if it turns out as being true. Yup and that because I want to make sure everyone else with motor clumsiness is not excluded but also not going to be mixed up with the AS group.

Now you can respond.

Yes but I have fast reflexes so it sort of balances out. I have stumbled, almost tripped, and almost dropped breakable things many many times only to quickly catch the object or correct myself. I do often bump into things though I have only gotten hurt doing that once.

I went with yes in the past but it is not present now, although I'm not one hundred percent sure.
I walk weird and was somewhat awkward until around age fifteen or sixteen, but presently i probably have above average coordination,balance,etc. I zone out often,i always have, and i think that could be the main problem, i will walk into stuff or trip and fall around the house and especially in large crowds. I am a good aim with a rifle,have good control over mouse,keyboard,and gaming controllers,i can take pictures with less movement blur by hand than with a low end tripod( may not say anything),i never trip or fall when alone and outdoors.

I bet a lot of people with AS or autism are not as clumsy as they seem, they just don't care to look where they are going.

Bad motoring topic

Slowing down movements helps with my co-ordination, but makes me slower on the job and nets complaints from employers and co-workers. Mine is severe and called dyspraxia, and is often a co-Dx with AS.

Me too. I used to do martial arts, which was Ok because I could get out of the way, and the target was about 3' by 6'. I probably didn't look very graceful though. If I had any grace or co-ordination I would have made a good ballet dancer as I am pretty flexible and strong for my size. Thems the breaks.

Yeah. I do. Some actions I am really good at are easily accomplished. But sometimes when I walk I will almost fall to one side or another... Or run into walls. And my handwriting is very choppy. It's not very grown up at all. I'll scan some later. It's quite humourous.

Other things though, like painting or Playing DDr... I rule. I can paint with both hands going in different directions or manners. I play doubles of ddr... With both mats. So it is sort of dependant of the situation.

I inherited my lack of good motor skills from my dad, he would trip over things like a running chainsaw, and land on another saw, or trip and fall down a hill, I think the funnest thing that happened to him was when he was running with a wheelbarrow full of dirt, he hit a stump and flew over the wheelbarrow landing on his back and having the dirt land on his face, he was the original Homer. Myself I seem to be very dangerous to myself with hammers, I will miss the nail and hammer my thumb 2 or 3 times, or if I am having trouble getting a nail in I have bonked myself in the head, on the back swing, then hit my hand, just to finish myself off. I should ware a hockey helmet anywhere near tools, also stairs, going up or down, even if its one step, jumping over things like a log or a fire pit, that one was bad.
My dad was most likely an Aspie too.

I'm perceived as rather clumsy. Pouring things like large jugs is a challenge. Turning corners I tend to bump into walls or hit my hand.

Even so I tend to draw and paint well...go figure.

I'm PDD NOS so I guess that qualifies as "other"

Doorways are biased against me. That's why they spring out from their stationary positions just to ram themselves into me.

I once split my knee on a couch. I was dancing through the house (okay, someone had just given me a bunch of free skittles, okay?) and, well, one of my legs cleared the couch, but alas, the other did not. It bled too.

I do have to say though that I display pretty amazing skill when I'm drunk. I once vaulted a couch one-handed (one-handed, because in the other hand I was carrying a sword) . . . yeah. Good times.

Whilst I never knew it, I am clumsy. I can run up and down the stairs here in complete darkness whilst juggling a glass of water; I can barely step into shoes, sandals without losing my balance. I stumble a lot, and I look down when I walk to see where my feet are, and to avoid eye contact.

I've seen several youngsters with AS at an autism clinic (<6), most of them could barely walk up and down the stairs, and they needed help from their parents.

I have Asperger's and autism; I fit both stereotypes and diagnostic categories (Gillberg's for AS; ICD-10/DSM-IV-TR for autism).

I am clumsy but not nearly as bad as I use to be. I still bump into furniture occasionally and still have some coordination problems. These include tying my shoes, folding clothes and properly holding some tools. My handwriting use to be terrible until I discovered that pencils are easier to control when you hold it closer to the tip.

I'm very clumsy. I have no self-awareness in how much space I take up, and therefore, I run into a lot of things because I think I can get through; or, the opposite, I'll lag way behind because I don't think I can get through, when really, I can. My balance is entirely skewed as well; I completely flunked the balance test last year, and I'll tip over randomly, even when I'm just standing still.

I don't recall being clumsy in my younger years, but I know I must have been; besides my mother mentioning that she worried about me (I fell down things; I still do, but it's scarier at a younger age) and acquiring the nickname of Grace (because I was so ungraceful), there was a comment on one of my preschool report cards that I had trouble getting down from high areas (ie, the van) and was hesitant with things that I could fall with. (Actually, my report cards from back then are kind of illuminating; I didn't realize some of the things they mentioned until I was looking through them the other week for a recent scoring.)

Funnily enough, I've done things that require some sort of coordination; I did ballet for a year and actually wasn't all that bad (age 4), I vaulted for a couple years (ages 9 and 10, I think), and I enjoy dancing now and supposedly am quite good at it. Yet I fail every test for coordination I've taken, I fall down stairs, I run into walls (and people, sometimes), I trip over just about everything (including myself), and my balance is shot.

I am a walking danger zone.

I was banned from the basketball court during gym.

Kind of hard to say. I used to have coordination troubles for sure, and perhaps still do, but it was never severe enough to be seriously addressed or treated. The workings of the human nervous system, and the effects of a developmental wrinkle, are extremely complex, and it's difficult to pinpoint the exact manifestation of the wrinkle. I will NEVER get the hang of basketball, and will very likely get a DUI if I'm ever pulled over and told to do the 'hop from foot to foot, alternate touching my nose with my index fingers AND recite the alphabet backwards with my eyes closed' test, even though I'd NEVER drink and drive for anything. I'm also extremely flat-footed and walk with my knees and ankles bent at mostly fixed angles. My movements are very isolated, and I don't swing my arms naturally, preferring to have my hands in my pockets. But functionally, in practice, it doesn't seem to matter, because everyone's different anyway. I have relatively good balance and endurance, so if anyone might be catching on, I can just stand still, anyway I tend to think of development as a series of corrections no matter who you're talking about

I'm ASpie, but I'm OK now. I used to have problems - the two obvious symptoms were not being able to ride a bicycle and not being able to tie a shoelace. I can do both now and I do OK in all other respects.