What are your motor skills like?

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Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes they drool? I mean, suddenly your mouth sorta loses control from the brain? And sometimes, when I bend my finger, the rest of the fingers bend with them. Anyone else have the same problem?

My fingers bend independently, and I seldom drool. When it gets really cold out, then there's a bit of drooling.

I get tics in my fingers as I hold my hands in front of me. Any one finger randomly jerks about 10 degrees sideways back and forth every few seconds. I can count about 25 tics in a minute. The pinkies and the ones next to it are the worst, but it can happen with any finger and even the thumbs occasionally.

Yes I do tend to drool down the corners of my mouth occasionally and I need to wipe them either with my sleeve or my handercheif of just the palms of my hands.

My son has pretty poor motor skills. It took almost 2 years for him to learn how to button and snap his pants. He still has no clue how to blow his nose. He goes down steps one at a time. His handwriting is very bad (his only bad grade each marking period). He runs very oddly, toe walks, can't use a knife to cut or spread butter. He can't open a plastic bag, like chips or a happy meal toy. He has a hard time washing his hair and brushing his teeth. The school won't help with any of this because, according to them, it doesn't interfere with his school work.

"Frustrating" would be the perfect word to describe my motor skills. Particularly "free motion" skills. For instance, I can play the piano really well, but I can rarely catch anything thrown to me -- and I usually look especially silly trying. I'm great at driving (fast/weaving/anticipating), but have trouble with things like opening envelopes.

In my job, I fold a lot of paper and put them in envelopes, and sometimes, when the day has just been "too long" for me, I almost have a total breakdown. It takes so much concentration for me to repeatedly fold paper and stuff and seal envelopes, that I'll get slower and slower, until I just give up. I have to sit there for 30 seconds or more just trying to relax my touch-nerves enough to start up again.

Long story short -- I can control machines like Magneto, but I can't control my own hands. It must be because finger/hand motion is much more difficult to visually mathematize than machine motion.

(I'm also curious as to whether my writing makes fellow-Aspies yawn?)

(Anyone else find that slowing down a task only barely helps your motor coordination? That is profoundly frustrating for me. Patience is apparently NOT a virtue here.)

WELL, I don't drool. My fingers are OK. They don't bend 100% freely, but most peoples don't. Can ANYONE bend their pinkies 100% while keeping their other fingers straight? I can do the aronic benediction(aka vulcan salute) (I heard it enough that I can probably emulate the sound also) with both or either hand. I can do an inverse salute with my right hand(I never practiced it).

I have trouble with things like jumping jacks, and catching.

Steve

My handwriting is pretty bad, but I've developed a sort of square all caps font which looks alright because I'm forced to slow it down a bit. I only write like that when I'm writing for someone else. I can read my own handwriting, however horrible it may or may not be (I've had complaints).

I did Tae Kwon Do when I was little and had real trouble when I got to the green belt. I would get completely turned around. For those of you who aren't familiar, you have to memorize these kind of dances to advance. Sort of like square dancing, I guess... which I have never done.

I type fairly quickly and accurately. But, I'm jealous of courtroom typists, who, evidently, can type 300 words per minute. I'm more at like 80 or 90.

I think I drive really well - I haven't had an accident, yet, anyway.

Before I realized I have AS I thought I was a really poor kinesthetic. I've always argued that my proprioreception is very good, but I also argued that I am not socially ret*d. And, well, here I am. Hahaha.

My gross motor skills at 14 1/2 months
About 3 months late for the average baby at that stage.

http://health.enotes.com/childrens-heal ... tor-skills

I wouldn't say my moter skills are too bad. I've always been able to throw and catch a ball well (except footballs), I've always been good at balancing, I've been able to hula hoop while walking sideways and backwards, and I've always been a very good short-distance runner.

However, I couldn't ride a bike until I was fifteen (no one taught me when I was younger so that didn't help) and I can't kick a ball very well at all. Also, I've never been able to float in a pool. I just automatically sink. Mom thinks that's just because I'm thin, but who knows really.

Mine are okay with some bad days but I have worked on them my entire life to get them there

Lets see.. gym teacher sets up a soccer ball on a pole at about waist height and hands me a baseball bat then says "hit the ball" I swing, go right over the top of the ball, the weight of the bat pulls me around in a full circle and I tip over onto my back.

Much laughing ensued, much effort to not cry also ensued while I laid there on my back clutching the bat.

With training my balance and coordination has improved but I still cant aim well when throwing or catching something.

I have great hand-eye coordination for playing video games or the one time I went shooting on a date, I got a few bulls-eyes and I'm a pretty good archer too. However, I will trip over nothing at all and have been laughed at many times for falling in public. Now it's happened so many times that I just get up normally and keep on walking like I never fell. It has no correlation to shoe type either. I've fallen wearing heels, combat boots, cowboy boots, sneakers, sandals, and even barefoot. I have no idea why I can get my hands to work and not my feet.

As for drooling, I only do that in my sleep. I'm more apt to talk in my sleep though than drool. I've been told I can carry on full conversations and the other person doesn't even know I'm sleeping unless they are looking directly at me.

I am not really good at video games I have not bothered with them for years now. I used to find I was on a steep learning curve at first but it plateaus out after a few weeks and I do not get much better at it.

Sometimes used I get so excited when playing a video game my whole body went into uncontrollable spasms like a washing machine on spin dry cycle spinning off center. I suppose I cannot handle the surge of adrenalin. It was game over for sure.

When I was about seven marching was really big then but I usually had to be put at the back of the line because I was putting all the kids marching behind me off with my extremely goofy and clumsy marching technique, sometimes giving little hops and skips to keep up and one time even literally stopping to pull up my socks when the marching instructor bellowed out "Paul, pull your socks up, and march sensibly!" and all the other kids marching behind me formed a real pile up like a train wreck.

I'm a major klutz.

I'm absolutely horrible at anything athletic, and it took me longer than most people to learn how to tie my shoes.