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).
This thread came at such good timing for me. This is something I've been talking about a lot recently with family.
I have an awful habit of walking into things. Typically doorframes, tables, the corners of furniture etc. I usually hit my arms and legs in the process and they're covered in bruises. But recently I walked head first into a door frame and got a good bump on my forehead.
Yesterday I dropped the iron on my foot and today I stood on a toy toilet of all things, right in the arch of my foot.
There isn't a day goes by where I don't injure myself somehow.
But I too have the spilling drinks thing. I once tried to move my daughter's hot chocolate away from the edge of the table for fear of her spilling it. But instead threw it right over her (she was fine, it was cooled)