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!