Do people with Aspergers typically have problems balancing?

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I almost die on a daily basis from lack of balance.... but that may just be that I am a klutz...

I am SO clumsy, dear lordy. I'm good with my hands (though I use my toes like hands sometimes xD), but that's pretty much it.

It must have something to do with my obsessive traits. Skateboarding for me was an escape from a difficult environment so maybe I'm able to bypass the typical clumsiness for it. I am clumsy, I just almost broke my wrist by bumping it on the bathroom door :p, hurt like the dickens and I can barely feed myself on stressful days. However I played soccer, did gymnastics as a child, heck I use to walk on my hands. It's probably also dependent on personality. I'm known to be an extremely all or nothing person. Thanks for your contributions everyone. I'm new to this and my mother's been filling me with horror stories of having my disability checks taken away because I'm able to ride a bike and what not since I was little. I feel better now and am glad I joined this forum .

I paid attention to my steps and believe they're reasonably even and rhythmic.

I watch other people, and their movements seem erratic to me.

I can hit small targets, with a rock, in the desert.

I couldn't throw a basketball, when there was music I didn't like.

I make exact measurements, with the naked eye, verify them with tape measure, etc, but I messed up, on a loud machine, when there was a car quiter alarm in the background.

I think its the "can't walk and chew gum at the same time" thing.

It seems to affect my posture, position of my jaw, and my ability to swallow. All of these things go away when there is no stress.

Motor skills issues are sometimes, but not always, part of the package with people on the Autism/Asperger's spectrum. I did take longer to ride a bike, but eventually did learn. There is a certain angle of leaning back that really makes me feel unbalanced, like I am going to fall, even if I am sitting down. I have some minor hand skill issues. I have slightly turned out feet, so my walking gait is awkward and unsteady. It was made worse when I put on a lot of weight, but I compensate by walking slow. I did take dancing lessons for a while as a child, and I think that helped a little, too, but that was a long time ago.

The Autism/Asperger's spectrum of disorders is made up of a number of different symptoms, and it is not necessary to have all of them to be on the spectrum. I don't have all of them, but I do have a lot of them. It's hard, but at least now that I know what's wrong with me, it's easier for me to deal with it.

When I do not think about it, my body seems to do fine. The second I become conscious of my movements, I can trip over my own shadow.

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Yea I do. I have bad motor skills. Can't skatebaord, ride a bike, stand on metro without holding on to something.
My 2 brothers skateboard but not me. I walk with them and their friends when they go skating. Also I can't sit on walls or climb things like fences and trees. So I have been in situations of sitting below everyone else sitting on top of stuff.

It would bother my father because he was an all sport athlete in High School and I had trouble learning to do the basics like catching and throwing a ball. But I could be very good if I stuck with it. I learned to hit softballs. I had a weird off balance swing but sort of learned to play golf. I was very good at reading greens and putting.

As an older adult I learned a much better goif swing and have become pretty good at!

Sure it's seems common.
The source is either clumsiness (likely motor learning disabilities), poor sense of body positioning or poor sense of space (likely processing disorders), or in some cases, whatever source of inattention (processing space limitation, overwhelmed, whichever).


It's a common trait that doesn't seem to apply to me. The only reason why I'm late at learning to move around wheels was solely because I've never rode one until at that point.


For now; I've been riding a bike to go around; and to go to work with for at least over a year now.

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I have very poor balance.

My own medical adventures in the last few years have brought the following tidbits to my attention:
► Loss of balance is a symptom of Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP), a Parkinsonian disease
► PSP has a distinctive "hummingbird" feature in MRIs, where the midbrain is atrophied

My brain MRI shows the PSP "hummingbird" but I do not have PSP. The prevailing theory is that the "hummingbird" might also be associated with Autism...which I do have.

I can't ride a bicycle. I also struggle to balance on one leg. Outside of balanceing: one of the most played sports at my school was rounders (similar to baseball.) I never once managed to hit the ball with the bat in more than 10 years of trying.

Is there some overlap between autism and dyspraxia? I have a IRL friend whose diagnosis is "dyspraxia," but in some ways she seems more autistic than I do.

As a part of my Autism assessment the doctor tested my balance. Standing on one foot with closed eyes. Standing with my feet together with closed eyes. He said I had good balance but that didn't prevent me from getting a diagnose.

I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 12. My mum said it was due to my bad eyesight. I have no depth perception and my left eye is very weak so who knows if it's related to that or autism?

Once I learnt to ride though, I became very good at it. Same with driving forklifts years later. I used shadow cues to judge distance and though it took me a long time to become competent in all areas, in the end I was very good at my job.