POLL: Facial Expressions & Motor Skills

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Just want to know more about the general population with AS.



Also, answer this as a reply.. Are your motor skills average, a little below average, or way below average?

Motor skills a little below average, reading expressions below average.

Seems to me that's asking people to make a purely speculative, subjective judgement of their own abilities, which cannot be done (by them) with any degree of accuracy.

Just because a person thinks they're reading facial expressions or body language well, doesn't mean they are. It means they're assuming they're doing it well because they aren't being constantly called out for making a mistake.

Personally, I don't notice a lot of facial expressions, because I'm not making eye contact, so I'm not looking consistently at the face. I do, however, listen closely to vocal inflection, for the same purpose.

The one I'm good at reading is the one people give after I've said something I shouldn't. I've gotten real good at reading that one.

reading expressions - way below average.
motor skills - below average. Strange because I do precision machining (manual and CNC), but my turnery is built around myself. Specialized toolpost and hand-wheels on my manual lathe and mill and customised control panels for my CNC lathes. I still run into problems at work but I can get around them well enough.

Motor skills:
handwriting - abysmal
Hand-eye- coordination is fine with practice but goes out of practice quick
I have trouble making facial expressions which is really annoying. This may have more to do with riding my bike face first into a tree when I was younger and having minor facial reconstructions... or not minor I dont remember.

I am below average at reading facial expressions.
My motor skills are a little below average, but I should make a distinction here.
-Fine motor skills
They used to be a lot below average once. They're a little below average now but I still have troubles with handwriting and other stuff concerning fine motor skills. In fact, some time ago I had to cut some bread but due to my bad fine motor skills I cut myself. I have troubles doing these things in fact I hardly ever use knives when eating because I always risk to hurt myself.
But I am good enough at drawing.
-Gross motor skills
They used to suck as well but not as much as my fine motor skills. In the last two years they improved a lot and now I'd define them completely average, if it wasn't for these two factors:
1- I move slowly;
2- I move heavily.
My slowliness and heaviness when I move makes them look worse than they actually are.
I do karate and my slowliness and heaviness are somewhat compensated by my strenght. Everyone as their particular style of karate and my style is based on strenght rather than agility and rapidity.
Also my posture improved even if I still walk "like a soldier". My mother says you can see I have some kind of mental issues from the way I walk.

So basically my fine motor skills have always been worse than my gross motor skills.

Facial expression below average.
Motor skills a little below average.