What separates NT clumsy and AS clumsy?

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Perhaps you aren't clumsy at all although I hear most people with AS are. IMO NT clumsy=knocking into stuff,dropping stuff AS clumsy=NT clumsy+ tripping over your own feet while walking in a store. (My parents LOL! at that one day.) I find this trait as fun since people laugh at my stupidity. Sure I could get hurt but I rather hear you laughing over one of my traits than putting my behavior down once a day.

I don't think the difference is in one type of clumsiness as opposed to another - just the frequency of incidents.


Tripping and bumping into things and/or people happens to most everyone on occasion, but it happens to us (to me at least), anywhere from five to twenty-five times per day, depending on how mobile I am that day. If I spend most of it sitting at the computer, the count is low, if I go out somewhere where there are lots of people, its likely to increase exponentially. But I bump into things and drop stuff almost constantly. As I've aged, my deteriorating vision has contributed to a marked increase in my natural clumsiness.

Aspies are more clumsy than other people.

I'm not. Just in case you're taking a survey.
In every-day, around the house stuff, I don't think I'm clumsy at all.
I always stunk at sports, I figured it was because I didn't get much practice.
I'm not sure whether I don't care because I stink at it or I stink at it because I don't care.

Yeah, being on a job is very embarrassing. Dropping my drill or a specific object is very bothersome for me.

I'm not physically clumsy, but one of my interests is precision, so i'm not allowed to be clumsy.

I aim for precision, but it never F******* works.

I'm clumsy when trying to talk to somebody.

I don't know what makes AS clumsiness different from common clumsiness. I expect the accidents are indistinguishable - possibly the events leading up to the accidents are different. I think NTs are just better at tearing themselves away from their preoccupations so they notice possible accidents more easily than we do. If you examine an Aspie accident, mostly I think it'll be a case of being too strongly focussed on one thing at the expense of another. Or the result of being impulsive, which is one of our notorious traits.

I don't have many accidents because over the years I seem to have learned to slow down and take great care when there seems to be any chance of a collision or dropping anything. Also I try to effect a lot of control over my environment, so that everything's ergonomically favourable.....best solution for a bull in a china shop is to remove the china to a safe place .

Freud claimed that all accidents were the result of unconscious motivation - e.g. accidental death is really suicide or murder - but I think he was wrong. I think with most accidents, you either happen to see the banana skin in time, or you don't.

i dont consider myself particularly clumsy, infact i was a very good gymnast, but i do walk into people /things through either not being tuned in, or maybe shut the lid of the car boot on my head through having poor spatial awareness, infact now i think of it i also bang my head or catch my face on the car door a lot... but anyhow, my daughter is very clumsy, but never aware when she has barged into something or knocked something over until its pointed out, and even then she sometimes cant see that she did it.
she cant cross a room without walking into or knocking aside at least one piece of furniture.

I can be clumbsy at times. I'll get a bruise and not know where it came from. I usually just misjudge when i walk around something or over something or up something. Also, for whatever reason, i have tripped on my second toe many times. It is a tad longer than my big toe. I don't know how i do it, it's weird. My son has AS and he is not clumbsy at all. Although he sure can use some help with some things, like throwing a ball and jump roping. He can do them well, but the way he does it, would surely allow the other kids to have a quick laugh.

+1

While not exclusively AS, most "clumsiness" is something that happens from growing up and learning to be more coordinated. Something about AS makes us more inclined to being clumsy throughout our lives, but it's not a "must have" feature of AS. Some of us lack athletic prowess (a product of good coordination), but we don't fall over the banister every time we go down the stairs either.

A clumsy adult topic

Multitasking, simultaneous commands and conversations, background noise, daydreaming on a busy street , fatigue--these are detrimental to smooth physical coordination Recognizing triggers is important, so reducing them can help.

I didn't think there was a special type of clumsiness or anything, I figured it was just something that was a common feature to find.

The question sounds to me kinda like saying "what type of blue eyes to people with blond hair have?" Some blonds have blue eyes, some don't, some people who aren't blond have blue eyes, and as far as I know, a blond's blue eyes aren't any different than a brunette's..

( Do I use too many analogies? Are they weird and stupid? Do I carry them too far? They always seem to apply when I think of them...)

I think the OP was trying to ask what the difference is because everyone is clumsy sometimes.


Heck I hear lot of people are shy and then I read lot of autistics are shy and say it's part of it. WTF. So I asked one day what the difference is between aspies being shy and none aspies and I got told there is no difference.

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I find I get very clumsy when my wind wanders, as its prone to doing. Since childhood I've always been a daydreamer, and I've always been something of a klutz. I figured the two naturally went hand-in-hand. Don't get me started on school phys ed. classes. Oh the shame...