Clipping/cutting toenails-difficult for anyone else?

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Clipping/cutting my toenails . Between struggling to see them and using the clippers it’s very difficult.

Someone has suggested getting a podiatrist as part of my care package. I’m not sure a podiatrist would help though just because I have difficulty clipping/cutting them .

It seems to be a common problem for people with dyspraxia.

Just looked up some fees for nail cutting - £25-30 plus!

My main issue is I hate the feel of clipping nails- so I just don't

I do my husband's for him, and I charge $0. Before he married me, I think he paid $15 at a nail salon.

Yes, it is quite difficult for me as well. My toe nails are in very rough shape due to that. For some reason; I really get anxious around feet, my own included. I even hate looking at my feet as odd as that is.

I usually pick toenails with my fingernails, then try to repair the damage with clippers.


For my fingernails, it's impossible to avoid biting them if I don't carry around clippers at all times. I think there might be some hypersensitivity involved here - they will feel irritated to the point that, before I've realised it, I've scraped underneath them with my either my other fingernails or my teeth, thus irritating them further.

There is simply no way to get through a full day without giving into the temptation and biting them off. The only way I can avoid it is if I have nail clippers with me at the time, in which case I can cut them off very short before I give in to the temptation.

I have to have it done for me.

I use nail scissors to clip my toe nails and finger nails. I hate the way the nail clippers feel on my toe nails and I usually end up breaking the clippers because I can never remember how to use them correctly.

I can't tolerate having nails that extend past the ends of my fingers, but I've never been a nail biter. Instead, they seem to tear off or get caught in stuff pretty easily, after which I clip them short.

But my daughter, who is autistic like me, started manicuring her nails really fancy as a way to break her habit of nail chewing. They used to be down to the merest nubs. Now, she has pretty nails like I can never grow. And she broke the habit of chewing them.