Losing motor coordination

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Over the last few years I've noticed I have been having a difficulty using fine motor skills and am curious if this has happened to any of you. For example when I was 13 years old(I am now 16) I could type at 90 words per minutes with a precision of missing only a couple letters. Now I can only type about 60 words per minute with accuracy, any more and I start missing letters frequently. The freuency in which I use a keyboard hasn't gone down since I was 13 and I have noticed I've been getting clumsier with other tasks too.

Are you under more stress now, maybe school is harder for you? When my stress levels increase some of my basic functions deteriorate.

Hi I have found your post very interesting, although I am in my 50's I have found that I have trouble all my life walking on uneven ground.
This may or may not be a depth perception thing but I am not sure. I would love to have feedback on this issue of difficulty walking on uneven surfaces.
You guys have the advantage of being diagnosed at an early {assuming you have been diagnosed of Aspergers} as now you are able to create your life around being autistic and hence you may become another Bill Gates.

Are you taking any medication Some meds can cause weird problems like that.

I'm no longer using any meds.

I'm 58 and a couple of years ago I noticed clumsiness and poor coordination, especially in the gym and during exercise. It got pretty bad and I developed tinnitus and cognitive impairment. This took about 6 months to figure out, but I had a critical vitamin B-12 deficiency. I apparently have an auto-immune problem where my body inactivates the 'intrinsic factor' needed to absorb B-12. I do three injections a week now and it made a huge difference. I also was having bad tinnitus and occasional weakness and esophageal ulcers (extremely painful). It took about a year and a half for them to find that my body was cranking out testosterone at high levels ('total serum testosterone') but also 'sex hormone binding globulin' at very high levels. The SHBG bound and inactivated the free testosterone, and my effective (functional) testosterone level was extremely low. I now do daily injections of testosterone and my mind and body are both doing much better. I'm autistic and I've had a number of rare conditions over the years that have nearly done me in (like miliary tuberculosis - it's so rare - nobody in this country gets it...). I've found that endocrine and gastrointestinal problems are common in autistics. In fact our lifespan is reduced - I believe this is due to alexithymia and the inability to reliably recognize and report physical symptoms; the article suggests comorbid Intellectual Disability as a cause, but I'm hard put to report even severe physical symptoms and I don't have ID. The article is at: http://questioning-answers.blogspot.com ... inued.html

It may also be the result of multi-tasking--the inability to just work on one thing at a time without having other things to worry about.

I might add that despite being middle aged my coordination is actually better than when I was in my 20s and 30s because I've made a conscious effort to do tasks with the intention of improving coordination. It isn't just what you do but how you do them.