Do all Aspies have dexterity issues or is it just me?

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I was slow developing and learning to walk and talk. I was diagnosed hypothyroid at 18 months and onmce I started taking Thyroxine things improved.

Throughout my life I have lost jobs due to being what NT people politely call kack handed although I have always been honest about the problem at interviews and on application forms (back in the days when before appliied for everything online)

Are dexterity issues an aspie thing or did I just draw yet another short straw. (my sister did not get Diabetes or thyroid problems and she is definitely not an aspie)

I have always been led to believe that my dexterity problems were thyroid-related but now I am not so sure. On the questionnaires my mum and I were sent prior to my assessment there were lots of questions regarding early development including questions about dexterity and co-ordination.

I was a "late bloomer" also. I was slow to learn to walk and talk. I also found i had Hyperthyroidism when i was 13. now i have the oppersite -_-. I can never keep down a job long as I get whats like a sugar attack. Though I have actually discovered that coffee stops this as coffee gets the liver to produce insuline. which helps diabetics. I have whats known as boarderline Hypoglycemia (sp) I process sugar waay too fast leaving nothing left in my system for when my body really needs it.
I am also really slow to pick up n learn new things, especially if things are constantly changing. makes it hard in a lot of work place enviroments for me. Funny enough, im studying teaching =)

Idk, I cant say if these things are link to being aspie, or as you said just being the shortest straw holder, but yeah, its interesting to link those together.

I learned to walk at the normal age, but I have trouble with fine motor skills, though I don't know if it's related to AS. It mostly shows up in my handwriting, which I simply can't control: my hand jerks in unexpected directions and I can't write neatly no matter how hard I try. Anything else that requires very small, very controlled movements is pretty hard for me. Anyone else have this problem?

I also am not able to catch things, but that's probably due to lack of binocular vision, and I can't dance (if there's a song stuck in your head now, you're old like me ).

I was 11 months when I learned to walk, and I was average with talking.

AS can influence the development of motor skills, I've been told. I am terrible at sports, for instance, and that was attributed to my AS by the doctor that diagnosed me. I lack skills with coordination, although I have improved over the years. I learned to crawl after I learned to stand, and then began walking shortly after at around 9 months. I had a hard time crawling and did it strangely, apparently people used to laugh when they saw me. I began writing at a younger than average age (around 18-24 months), but I was very sloppy at it until I was 6 or 7. I learned to speak at 5 months, though, and could read well by age 3, so I guess I had to start writing. I am terrible at drawing, and my writing is still fairly sloppy. It took me years to properly use a fork and knife, I think I was 12 or 13 before I could cut my own food easily. I've always been clumsy, so I trip over things, slip, drop things, knock things over... I've broken my wrists, fingers, and toes several times each because of clumsiness.
I don't have thyroid issues or diabetes, so I can't say it's due to either of those. You aren't alone anyhow!

I don't know, for me it seems to be only the finest of dexterity that's affected like, I'm athletic, play guitar extremely well and piano well BUT, I have a ton of trouble dealing with small screws or putting together car/ship models. It feels like my hands are huge, slow and darn near useless. I'm also being treated for hypothyroidism though, ha.

I was very clumsy when I was little. I fell over a lot. I dropped eberrything I held, eggsept pencils, blocks, pails, and shovels.

On many occasions, it seems as if I had taken at least a -2 to my DEX, but on other occasions, I am quite nimble and my fine motor skills are quite sharp. I have been able to learn through the years to "sense" when my dexterity is about to go downhill. Sometimes, eating will help, other times, I must cease doing anything that requires keen dexterity. Usually a "fog" in which you feel disembodied, as if you're inside a dysfunctional mech suit, will preceed and accompany the loss of dexterity (this may also be related to my SPD). As a child, this feeling was nearly constant, but through an immense conscious effort and taking up model-building and art, I have been able to improve my fine motor skills. I am still clumsy, however and commonly drop heavy objects on my foot. My mangled toenails can testify to that (dropped a stump, an STH 10, and family-sized cans of baked beans on my poor left toes).

Always hated sports - still do - especially ones involving catching/throwing things
Used to get teased for walking oddly and posture
As a child I found it very difficult to tie shoe laces

I learnt to walk, and talk at a normal age, but have always been a bit clumsy, and slightly below average when it come to catching, and throwing a ball. Now, at 14, I can just about tie shoe laces, but not properly, and can only tie a tie, if I fluke it. For the most part, my fine motor skills used to be VERY good for my age, but no-so-much anymore :/, although that might have something to do with the lack of practice I've had recently. In the past year or so, it seems like my "natural" walk is changing, and I'm finding it easier to walk like those gangsters on T.V. :L Ages 11-13, my walk was very feminine, but I was self-conscious of it, so I spent pretty much the whole time doing this weird walk to try and hide it :L.
According to my research, dexterity issues are an Aspie thing.

I've got bad posture, motor dysgraphia, and general clumsiness. So I'd say that yeah, it does happen in many cases.

I've never had the best motor skills in the world. Sports were a huge hurdle- boy, did I hate them in school!

I did some things differently- I walked on my tip-toes, that sort of thing. When I was a baby, I crawled while my head was touching the ground, so I would scoot everywhere like that- I developed a bald patch on my head that way. I've never had to have a lot of therapy to fix anything, thank goodness. I do experience mild vertigo- that is, going on an elevator can make me lightheaded. A couple of times when I was younger, after running too fast down a hill or something, I would become so dizzy I wouldn't be able to stand up for hours.

I couldn't walk until I was 3 years old. I'm still very clumsy even to this day, walking into walls and stubbing my toes on things. I break dishes, etc when my hands don't work with my brain.

Motor difficulties can be a part of AS and milestones may be delayed. It's not a criterion but the motor difficulties (this includes walking, riding a bide, fine motor skill tasks, awkward gait, uncoordinated or bouncy way of walking), a feature that's often observed in kids and adults with AS.

I get a lot of people (who are involved with autistic people in some way) assuming that I am clumsy because of my diagnosis. Alas, I have very good motor skills, I was walking and running around before I was talking and my motor skills were always well ahead of my language development and self-help skills throughout childhood.

In school, teachers thought I was mediocre and later bad at sports because I struggled with how to do things, sensory integration (delayed processing) and understanding verbal commands. Because of all that, I came to absolutely hate sports until a few years ago.

My attention issues (the ADHD + sensory dysfunction of autism) sometimes lead to what seem to be a lot like impaired coordination and balance. I will get so distracted or hyperactive in the middle of a jump during martial arts training that I fall over (it's so annoying) and at other times, I can't manage to focus on how to move my fists and end up looking all uncoordinated and awkward until the moment that I get my mind back on track.