Exceptional Hand Weakness

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Does anyone else have abnormally weak hands? My hands first showed signs of being weak when I was in grade school and was continually reprimanded by my teachers for my handwriting, no matter how hard I tried, it came out as sloppy due to my poor hand muscle control. I still have awful handwriting that almost no one can read, including myself sometimes, and I usually resort to printing. I am thinking my dad may have been an aspie too, because he did the same thing. I also struggle to open various lids and cannot wring out laundry to save my life, my husband is always teasing me about my inability to wring out clothes. Strangely enough, in spite of my horrible penmanship skills, I was always very good at drawing. Can anyone relate to this?

I was about to tell you there's no correlation between autism and weak hands, but a quick google search tells me there is one indeed. Not always weak hands, but weaker muscle tone in General which can be very noticeable in the hands. Like we don't have enough problems as it is.

I have a weak left hand, I know that. My right hand seems to be a lot stronger. I guess because it's my dominant hand, so I'm constantly using it instead of my left hand. I have a hard time holding things with my left hand too. D:

One of my nicknames in school was "Mr. Burns". I assumed it was due to me being very mathematical in my thinking and lacking empathy but I believe it had to do with how weak my hands were. Even as someone who has been aggressively working out, I still have baby soft skin.

I can never open a jar of anything. My fingers are strong - I play guitar, do drawing, fiddly craft and that's fine. Seems like the problems's more in the wrist action - anything you need to twist is a problem. I've never thought of this as Asperger's related before but you could be right.

I have general muscle weakness and yeah I notice it in my hands a lot. I can force myself to have a strong grip on something but still have trouble holding it. I am prone to losing my grip or just suddenly dropping things. Tend to hold something like a hammer the "wrong" way. Needing to grip things so tightly makes me tired faster.

I have to grip a pen very hard to write neatly. In school my teachers tried to show me how to hold it more loosely but I was never able to do it.

I'm sure that there's something in this.

When I write for longer than a minute or so my hand starts to ache.

If I'm holding heavy dumbbells it is only a matter of time before my tight grip will make me dry heave.

My handwriting is awful and inconsistent. It looks different page by page.

Though I am good at drawing it is uncomfortable.

I have lower strength in my hands since I was a toddler.

I have terrible handwriting. I can't open jars. I often drop things.
I am very physically weak as far as males go.

Yes. My fingers are actually quite strong from playing the piano, but my hands overall are very weak. I have trouble gripping things tightly, can't open jars, my hand will occasionally drop whatever I'm holding, and my hand starts to ache and my handwriting rapidly degrades if I have to write for any length of time (interestingly, I've found this actually improves a little bit if I hold my forearm with my other hand).

I also have some kind of inflammatory problem in my wrists that will occasionally cause them to hurt so badly and be so weak that I can't even make fist, let alone use my hand for anything.

By my senior year in high school, I had played piano for eight years and had developed a lot of finger strength, and despite also being in fairly good shape including weight training, when I was tested for grip strength, I showed very poor. I was surprised, but the tester just moved right along without really inquiring about why someone in good shape would have poor grip strength.

The grip test was done as part of a battery of skills tests to determine what types of careers would be good choices to pursue. A strong grip was equated with good determination with staying with long-term goals and a weak grip meant lack of tenacity for sticking with long-range goals.

Asperger's wasn't even being diagnosed at the time, but it makes me wonder if they were finding some type of correlation that had more to it than they understood. Or if a lot of you have good long-range planning skills, maybe the test is flawed.

i guess my fingers themselves are as strong as those of any other. i have played piano for a while but i'm not sure that contributed much as i played for around a year and a half, and only took actual lessons for 6 months. grip strength i assume is slightly lower than average but i cant really compare to that to anything, not sure. i can open jars and bottles just fine (my sister often asks me for help).

my wrists are quite small, and i have no problem with that! i can easily wrap my right index finger and thumb around my left wrist, but, i can touch my left pinky and thumb around my right had, i can;t do that with the other. normal...?

i've been doing some weight training but never been tested for grip strength. my handwriting is normally average when i'm given my own time but if i go on for too long or i'm in a timed situation, like taking notes in class, it starts to resemble arabic more than any latin script based language.