Just how bad are YOUR motor skills?

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i am very very ....clumsy...and keep dropping things.
I am from India were nearly 90 % of the youngsters ride bike(the cheapest transport), but i have big problems in riding bikes even though i have been trying for nearly 6 years......i have problems driving cars too.........

I'm always running into things. My opthamologist says I have almost no peripheral vision. I always have buises on my arms and legs over it. My fingers and toes are all scarred up from when I was a child. I've also done things like sew my finger to the material in Girl Scouts, which turned out to be a good thing since it got me out of that, and slicked big chunks out of my skin when trying to chop things to help my husband cook. That also turned out to be a good thing since I hate touching food and he won't let me anywhere near it as a result of my clumsiness (and my predisposition to simply forget I'm cooking and leave things until they burn beyond recognition).

I'm epileptic which definitly skews the matter, but my fine motor skills are rubbish

I can't remember ever having a problem with tying shoes but I never got to grips with riding a bike. I also couldn't swim until I was 19. I'm incredibly clumsy, especially when carrying anything that's worth a lot of money. What was annoying growing up was that my little brother could do anything he tried first time. He jumped on a skateboard and by the end of the day was doing jumps, he put on some roller blades and within an hour he's whizzing down the hill. Meanwhile I'm slowly making my way along the wall. I have the piano problem too of doing the same thing with both hands. I don't think my handwriting is too bad but I've been told it's crap by a lot of people.

Completely OT (well, almost completely), but has anyone clicked on one of these "Fart Button" adverts yet?
I might do so eventually, by accident, when I miss what I mean to click on ( back on topic ), but I find them offensive/disturbing/childish/unattractive/etc. I just haven't the slightest desire to find out what happens.

I am definatly acicdent prone, having broken bones 7 times and gotten stitches 6 times in my 35 years. I can't catch a ball for the life of me, but have no trouble ridding a bike or driving a car. I am, however, clueless when it comes to dancing and bump into things all the time.

Now there DarkStar certainly beats me. Generally speaking I've avoided broken bones (except, primarily, the biggy - my pelvis - as a passenger in a car accident though, so hardly my fault).

The stitches though... there I can offer some competition. Lip, palm, scalp, appendix, palm, hand, eyelid, thumb, arm, eyebrow. That about covers it, I think. I guess appendix scars don't count.

I'm not to sure if I actually had any stitches for the lip... squeamish?, stop reading here. I've just dredged the memory up. I was rather young and had just been shown how to use a blade of grass as a reed to make noises: hold across, put between lips and blow. For some obscure reason, I then decided to see what happened if I slid the blade of grass sideways, with a sawing motion, just below my bottom lip. The answer is that it cuts through quite quickly, effectively and deep.

Mine aren't really so bad, I just tend to be clumsy and unobservant so I bump into things a lot. I've taken to purposefully putting myself off balance and catching a lot, which has improved things greatly. Although, this constant skill practise tends to seem unusual to people. Imagine you're waiting in line and a guy subtly balances on one foot or on his heels or is constantly shifting his weight, lol.

Although besides practise, there are other good reasons for this behaviour, I hate how it could get looked down upon. It keeps the spine mobile and fluidated, keeps metabolism slightly more elevated (yay for fatties like me) and probably keeps you more awake and alert. It's a shame how it can get looked down on as a disorder like in cases of ADD or whatever. I think we should differentiate between willfully fidgetting and being unable to keep still physically from being unable to concentrate mentally.