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I often trip and stumble a lot. In fact, my football coach told me that when he first saw me, he thought I should be in a wheelchair because of my funky walk(but I was a hero in a few of our games and I was eventually elected to all-conference DL). I heard this was common for people with AS. Anyone else similar?

Yes it is relatively common, and yes I am similarily afflicted.

I was clumsy as a kid. My mom said I trip over things or stumble into them and trip over my own feet.

But now it's rare. I take that as normal than AS.

I am clumsy, though I think it has more to do with a lack of awareness with my surroundings when my mind is occupied...I can be fairly agile when need be.

I look like I'm about to trip but rarely do I ever some said the way is unorthodoxly agile

That's called dyspraxia, and yes it is common for Aspies.

Bump into things, stumble, walk a bit oddly (and not noticing on my own of course). Yes. That is common among ASD. It's a trait.. Dysphraxia.

How severe does it have to be before it's techniqally called dysphraxia? Is dysphraxia just a fancy name for clumsiness?

I have no idea what the diagnostic criteria might be, but I would suggest that it would exclude instances where there are not clinically significant impairments, which in this context would usually mean a failure to meet age related motor developmental milestones (for instance failure to develop age appropriate "pen grip" significant lateness in learning to tie shoes, and coordination of limbs development that is below chronological age....etc).

In adulthood, it seems many grow out of their difficulties. I have to say this is not the case with me. Certainly I am better than when I was as a child, but what adult is not?

I still am significantly less physically coordinated and able than my age-peers in both gross and fine motor skills. I routinely accidently injure myself, spill things and break things. I cannot even type without drumming the keyboard no matter how hard I try to type gently, nor can I safely operate a motor vehicle on public roads, or even write fluently (I can manage to draw nice printing and writing in short spurts). Further, some days I am more grossly impacted than others. On these occassions I can barely do anything without spilling, bumping, dropping, tripping, etc. Worse I find it might take me a dozen attempts to pick up something I have dropped or to complete some other mundane physical task.

I didn't know it had a name cool!! I trip over my feet at times. My family laughs at this. Sadly a lot of "grew out of it issues" I do as an adult bummer.

I didn't know it had a name cool!! I trip over my feet at times. My family laughs at this. Sadly a lot of "grew out of it issues" I do as an adult bummer.

Yeah, I seem to walk in a different way every day, but it always looks a bit lop-sided...

I'm extremely clumsy. I'm constantly running into things, tripping over things, and other stuff like that.

I appear to have grown out of it, because I've learned to move with much greater care and precision than everyone else.

Yeah, I've always had a problem with clumsiness. Not as much these days, but I was rather clumsy when I was a kid.

I was always very well coordinated, agile (walked up on my toes as a child) was well balanced and could even run very well that way on my toes. So, no dysphraxia for me.

I find that I'm extreamly clumsy. I'm always banging into things and tripping over tables. I also get my clothes caught on sharp corners and objects, and that forces me to slow down and be more careful, because I don't want to wreck my fancy clothes. I also have a funny way of walking. My arms are straight at my side, and I tend to look down a fair bit. I also have hypotonia, which means that my gross and fine motor muscles are underdeveloped.