Published on 12, July, 2020
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).
Hello,
could it be dyspraxia and not simply being clumsy? I am dyspraxic and am forever dropping things or bumping in to walls, doors and have the bumps to prove it. Despite all that, I manage to go cycling but find corners hard to navigate round.
I have poor fine motor skills so struggle with my handwriting.
I have dyspraxia but my old gp told me ita not an adulthood thing then tell me why i take so long to learn a new motor skill why am i such an awkwaed cyclist why do i struggle with skills that to the outsider seem like ive mastered such as playing guitar i have to play ina way that suits my dyspraxia also lead guitar is out of my skill set as its too fine motor based
I am an avid gamer but prefer consoles as keyboard and mouse arent as easy for most game types unless its a point and click type game or just a keybosrd game
Touch screens are too fiddly for me half thr time as my hajd eye cordination needs the added help of a tactile button to feel around the kbaord
Just the other day in work i tripped over a bright blue pallet i often bump the trollies on shelves and doors more ofyen than the otjer stafg
Hello 507train,
I thought it was just me who struggled with touch screens. My heat pump works via a touch screen so I worked out I could just control it via the main power switch and avoid the screen. That is amazing you can play a guitar, I tried but struggled with the whole concept of one hand doing one thing and trying to do another with the other, too much!
I tried riding a Cruiser BMX bike once. The cruiser bike is supposed to be more stable!
Sunday afternoon at the local BMX track, on the start line and away we go. Down the hill, over the first jump and SPLAT! What was I thinking? I still have the scars to remind me never to do that again.
As for mountain bike riding, forget it.
Learning to ride a bike was tough but i got on a bmx at 17 and just pushed off and i was away ... exext to get going especially up uill i sometimes have to push over and over and over to get my balance so that's tough
Joy sticks are easier than controllers I'd say as it's a whole hand movement with just one button for a finger a controller is all fingers and both thumbs sometimes
I hate self service like tell me why as a cashier I can scan people's shopping fine but when I go in as a customer and am expected to be mu own cashier it wont work
I tried to play a guitar strung for left handedness once but I play right handed so yeah that was baaadd
I never know what hand to use and it's like it shorts out my brain, there are some things I'm left handed with like attempting to play a guitar, or any other musical instrument, somethings I can do with either hand and some again that I do right handed. I can't use a joystick or console controllers, partly because the just crash and don't work and partly because I can't master the controls. I've never learned to ride a bike, I have very little sense of balance. I'm also the person at the DIY checkouts in the supermarket swearing at the till as it refuses to acknowlege my existance, as soon as anassistant comes along it behaves perfectly, only to spitefully stop again as soon as her back is turned and she's helping another customer.