Do you have problems with proprioception (body awareness)?

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I have these issues too. My husband is always confused about how I trip over things so often. I also broke a toe in high school because I misjudged where the wall was when turning a corner.

I very often walk into signs, trees, glass doors, corners of buildings. ...in general, things that aren't obstacles to most people but are to me. My sons were amused last week when I walked into a sign in a park and hit my head. After I'd recovered from the pain I continued on my way--and walked into the same sign.

I recognize a lot!
I too have to look at my feet on my way down stairs and get a little support from the wall.
I bump into things and if I am confused/nervous enough, I bump into glassdoors and somtimes the door-frame.
At home, I often drop things, knock them over with a finger, I forgot to control.
What really irks me is small twitches when I grab items. It is probably "nerves".... perhaps shouldertension.

I'm too well clothed to tally my current bruise and scratch count; but suffice to say, the kind of clumsiness described so far is familiar to me. A few others not mentioned in the recent spell of posts...

- Feeling an itch, and reaching to scratch on the opposite side of my body, or just empty space where I thought that part of me would be.

- Seeing other people's limbs out of the corner of my eye and mistaking them for my own.

- Trying to get out of a chair without realising that I need to untangle my crossed legs first.

- My sense of embodiment wavering between me and my reflection when using a mirror.

- Knocking things out of my own hand by trying to pass one arm through the other as if it wasn't there.

- Going to move something that's getting in the way, only to discover that it's part of my own body.

- Difficulty judging how far I can stride or whether I need to duck under something.

- Trying to get through doors that I haven't opened far enough to get through.

- My movements and posture being extremely different to what I imagine in my head when I see them on video.

- Feeling no sense of embodiment at all when highly hyper-focused - I don't seem to have a body, nor do I feel as if I ever had one to lose.

I feel this all the time as a constant phenomenon. I first noticed it at age 3. I'm just a conscious mind floating around, and I'm not sure what my body is. I think that's why I stim to such an obsessive extent.

Made me think of when I was taken up into Heaven. I was hovering over my own body while I was on the floor in church. It is interesting... floating over your own body!

Wait--are you saying you were dead and came back to life?

My grandmother was pronounced dead from childbirth, and she came back.

No. I was very much alive and so was my body when I went back into it.

We had a revival going on at the church. Gods presence was so strong...
most of us were on the floor. During that time the Lord took me up and showed me a few scenes around Heaven. I saw my body as I was hoveringnover it and I was going up...and the next thing... I was in Heaven!

It's very variable for me - sleep deprivation, stress, and attention seemingly the most critical factors. I wouldn't say that I ever feel completely at home in my body, but feeling complete disembodiment when I'm out and about is unusual enough to make me feel very uncomfortable and very self-conscious that other people know what my body is doing better than I do. I certainly feel that it's a big driver of stimming - I lose touch far more quickly when I'm motionless, and I often feel the urge to rub myself as if checking that parts of me are still there.

Exactly. I believe this is also why I crave spicy food. It reminds me I'm alive.

When I was deciding which University to attend, I just happened to choose the one in the city often known as "the curry capital of Great Britain". When I still lived there, it wasn't unusual to have my dinner seven days a week in one of the really cheap curry houses which had been set up to feed the large workforce of South Asian immigrants when they came off their shifts in the textile mills. I definitely got lucky there! Eating usually just feels like a mechanical chore unless there's a bit of a kick to my food.

I made spicy butter chicken with cumin and cayenne, and jasmine rice for dinner. Zing!

Are you in Great Britain? (You don't have to tell me if you don't want to).

I'm sorry Dylanperr. I don't discuss where I live for privacy reasons.

Do you have problems with proprioception?

I dislike spicy food....curry isn't bad, though.

Sometimes, I have problems in the relationship between my location and the people next to me---especially when we're in motion.