How clumsy are you?

I know that we can be prone to being clumsy (and why, and that I definitely am), but can still find it upsetting. 

Since my diagnosis, I've found it easier to just acknowledge - or even to smile or laugh about - the smaller examples. But my unending stream of clumsiness, together with the hassle of the bigger examples, still gets to me.

It started innocuously enough today: I somehow dropped my teabag on the kitchen floor, between taking it out of the caddy and putting it into my cup. One moment it was right there, between my thumb and fingers, and I was looking right at it. The next it was on the floor. I've no idea how.

Two hours later, one that I couldn't smile about: I was sitting in the living room, had a first sip from a cup of coffee, and then - in the process of putting it back on the side table - somehow knocked it over and spilled it all over the floor (including down the table, under the table, under the sofa, etc).

I thought it might be interesting or maybe even therapeutic to share some of our clumsiness incidents.

So, if you feel like sharing, how clumsy are you? And what are some examples - whether recent or old?

(Very importantly, I don't mean to be tone deaf with this thread in respect of those of us who routinely have more severe difficulties. I'm thinking about the situations that we think we've got covered, until it turns out that we haven't).

  • One of my co-workers was joking about my clumsiness a few weeks ago, then he preceded to sit down on his computer chair but missed it and banged his backside on the floor. The irony was funny at first, but I'm a bit of a softy and felt bad for him instead.

  • I was quite offended when my other half said I was clumsy.... however, I soon realised it was true.  Earlier this week,  I did a "Which of the Mr Men are you?" quiz and sure enough it came out as Mr Bump.  So far today, I have stubbed the toes on both feet and banged my knee twice, I also spilled a coffee but that is not unusual...  I bang my head on the cooker hood thing pretty much every day.
    One of the worst was last year when I had to have my chin glued back together after falling down some stairs....

  • I have dyspraxia which makes me a bit uncoordinated with my hands, and being quite tall I'm relatively prone to nearly poking myself in the eyes with low hanging tree branches. Gave myself a corneal abrasion a couple of weeks ago but it has healed and the sight in the affected eye went back to normal after a few days. I also sometimes go up/downstairs too quickly and while I was on holiday, I nearly tripped while running up them.

  • Yes I'm clumsy. Usually when cooking get burns. But strange as they look bad but don't hurt so that helps Blush

  • Me too!! I thought exactly the same!! 

  • Pretty clumsy. Things tend to get knocked over, sometimes broken chez moi. 

  • Came up on my Facebook feed - Bye Bye Corn Flakes. Bye Bye nice bowl. This is a fairly regular occurence Joy

  • Clumsy and poorly balanced, thought it was just me!

  • If I was to rate my clumsiness scale then it would be 9/10. I am rather clumsy, but I once had a friend who was even clumsier than I was/am.

  • How clumsy am I?

    How about eleven fractures, close to 200 sutures, numerous usutured scars - one of which is approximately 10 cm long-  a metallic plate and nine screws and a serious traumatic brain injury?

    Nominally I'm IC1, with a mosaic overlay of black, blue and yellow giving a nice dappled effect to my skin Slight smile.

    Clumsy? You decide Slight smile.

  • Yes!! I dropped my phone the most when I first got it and was trying to be careful.

  • Do you find it worse when you're trying to be careful? I do, I feel as though my body has become enormous, elephant sized almost and spaces I could previously walk through or past easily suddenly become to small.

  • Thought it was just me I've always been clumsy,the last time was 5 minutes ago when I forcefully opened cupboard door into my kneecap

  • With me it's scratches that I have no idea how they happened. When they were very young my granddaughters thought I should wear a pelican bib, because I was such a messy eater.

  • I tuck my legs under myself also, and sometimes forget that when attempting to stand up. I either have to fight myself free of my legs or I just end up looking like I've decided to take a dive off the sofa.

  • I am constantly covered in bruises, sometimes very large and painful ones, and never have any memory of the actual cause. Though I do know that I frequently bump into door frames, which explains some of them. So I assume the rest is from bumping into various pieces of furniture without noticing I've done so.

  • I always bump into my friend's artwork, facing his wrath as a result.

  • I excused myself from running, by pretending I was a cameraman.

    I can never do table tennis, myself.

  • I just found my glasses, missing over a week, after getting my coat; finding them in the left arm of my coat.

    I can be a bull in a china shop, most times.

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