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ruennsheng
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19 Feb 2009, 3:55 am

Poor motor skills? It's ok if other people can tolerate it. If not, just don't care what others think and do what you want yourself...



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19 Feb 2009, 9:01 am

Greentea wrote:
As clumsy as I was as a child, I was winning prizes in drawing contests. Go figure.


Believe it or not, for a few years in elementary school I actually won 1st and 2nd place ribbons in things like the EGG RACE (where you run a set distance while balancing an egg on a spoon) though I couldn't seem to do the 3-legged race to save my life.



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19 Feb 2009, 3:00 pm

Wonderful ! !! !

What a weird phenomenon this discrepancy we have in manual abilities... I wonder if any so-called AS expert has tried to decipher it.


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20 Feb 2009, 12:16 am

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Here's something that's always puzzled me. I sometimes have poor motor skills, and that strange magnetic power that makes things throw themselves off coffee tables and worktops whenever i walk by. But, at other times, my motor skills are excellent, well above norm, and the same goes for my reflexes. I've left friends open jawed because I've reached out to my side and caught a tennis ball as it flew past me. Is this common, flipping from one extreme to the other?


Interesting. I have had similar experiences. My motor skills seem to 'come alive,' if you will, in a reflex-oriented situation. Otherwise, I have been known to reach for something and miss by six inches, and tend to run into tables/door frames, etc at least 6-10 times per day, cannot stand for even a second on one foot, etc.



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20 Feb 2009, 12:18 am

sbcmetroguy wrote:
Greentea wrote:
As clumsy as I was as a child, I was winning prizes in drawing contests. Go figure.


Believe it or not, for a few years in elementary school I actually won 1st and 2nd place ribbons in things like the EGG RACE (where you run a set distance while balancing an egg on a spoon) though I couldn't seem to do the 3-legged race to save my life.


I think this may have something to do with the fact that many of us have extreme difficulties syncronising our body movements with those of others.



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20 Feb 2009, 2:21 am

That sounds very possible! But what about clumsiness cutting a cake, hooking a necklace - fine motor skills?


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