Can someone with aspergers do this scooter maneuver I did?

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this should be possible; if you want to and train it
this is more a matter of training your hands; if you start at the right place, you'd play the entire piece.

it's kind of the same thing as blind typing; that is also a fine motor control; yet i can do it without trouble and very little mistakes; in face, i'm better then most others i know...

I can ride a bike, roller skate, roller blade and drive a car with a standard transmission but I walk into and drop things constantly. My kinetic memory tends to be better than average.

see minute 2:03
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ[/youtube]

My fine motor skills are excellent: can touch-type at tremendous speed, am self-taught at playing piano, pretty damn brilliant at sewing/crochet etc etc (no I don't do false modesty). As for gross motor: great at tap-dancing, ice-skating, swimming... but you wouldn't want me on your team for any team sport, I have never mastered the rules, and will politely give way to any player who seems more anxious to gain control of the ball than I am.

My only real difficulty is uneven surfaces. I will stride out happily for miles if it's flat underfoot, but tend to lose control of my body if it's bumpy underfoot - it's a challenge to stay upright without something to grab hold of, or a stick to lean on.

I've never thought of this as related to being on the AS, but rather as just 'the way I'm built', but I'm open to persuasion.

I have pretty good fine motor skills but only with my left hand. My right hand is just sort of there to balance out the picture and occassionally to shake hands with people. It is otherwise pretty useless. In my typing you will see a lot of transposed letters. I am not dyslexic - it is simply the right hand not keeping up with the left or with my brain processing speed.

Gross motor skills - not real good. I'm clumsy and often times just randomly lose my balance when standing perfectly still (though that could possibly be due to tinitis). I have poor muscle tone and after I had my daughter my GP couldn't figure out why I was having so much trouble getting my abs back into tone. Not into shape... to simply retract to a 'normal' position after birth. I have an extremely hard time toning my muscles and when I do any gains are very quickly lost if I do not maintain a high level of activity. I can ride a bike but I can't really walk a straight line. Heel to toe - can't do it.

My daughter has challenges in both fine and gross motor skills. She fatigues easily, has poor coordination, poor core strength and has the same problems with keeping muscle tone. At 9yo she cannot ride a bike and is still working on walking down steps with a normal foot over foot gait. She can go up them with a normal gait now though! PT ftw. Oddly enough, she can only manage the motion to pedal backwards, not forward. No explanation as to why yet. Still working on that one. Handwriting is a constant challenge and is tied up in with a writing disability. She loses her skill very quickly if OT is not maintained. She didn't jump with feet off the ground until 5 yo. Didn't run until almost 7. She has some fairly impaired body awareness and regularly knocks a shoulder into a wall when rounding a corner into the hall or thru doorframes. PT and OT are making slow but steady progress.