Bumping into things

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I find this thread hilarious, because I can relate to it so well.

I'm always bruised on the hips or elbows, and I crash into furniture and door frames, etc. I bump my head on car roofs as I get in/out, and I have even knocked people down in public when trying to dodge them oncoming. Thankfully, this is only on foot, and not when driving vehicles. (Scary thought: I'm grateful that it's only on foot... I have a 53,000-pound Caterpillar bulldozer, and if I took a bad aim in that thing, I could knock a few buildings down by accident .

All fun & joking aside, the worst case was that I had "snapped a picture" of what was in front of me when walking in a store, and I was thinking about other stuff and not watching for new obstacles to come in front of me. A lady pushed her baby stoller in front of me, and I never saw it, and walked right into it and fell on my face on top of it! Baby fine, but I smashed up my face, and destroyed the stroller. The woman thought it was her own fault, but honestly it was 50/50. A normal man would have seen the stroller, I think. My psychiatrist says this is called "static-fluid spatial disorientation". It means that in stead of watching where you're going in real time, you take a snapshot of the room, and then your mind becomes busy with other things, and you keep using that "snapshot" to navigate until you snap a new one in a few seconds.

Charles

kx250rider: yes yes!! I do that, i navigate with mentally closed eyes , using a snapshot of my surroundings, it's caused various incidents with moving objects! strange thing right there.....but the only way to avoid incidents would be to continue taking snapshots as I walk and i never remember to lol.

I accidentally bump across the sides of doors and the corners of walls.

While I don't bump into things that often (or at least I don't notice it), it might be because I've adopted a habit of precalculating my movements, and executing them in a really mechanical fashion (I feel like a robot now ).

The thing I have the most problems with, is moving amongst other moving people, this might be related to that snapshot thing, somebody else mentioned. People moving in an open place just seems so chaotic, even if there's very few people.

My oddly angled personal gravity keeps me in full quota of mystery bruises. I don't know how I can lose balance just standing still but i've managed.

i keep getting food and drink down my airpipe instead of my foodpipe. COUGH!! !

I run into things because I tend to space out a lot.

i can't even walk straight.. maybe my legs have a different lenght? but i really feel like R2-D2 all the time, just bumping onto things like the corners of tables and chairs(always hurts my toes)