I've read that aspies are clumsy

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is this true...i know i'm clumsy....its gotten to the point at work that if anybody drops something... "josh is here" (im josh) is it just me or are others with aspergers especially clumsy and drop things time to time

It's common for people with autism to have some form or degree of developmental coordination disorder. I have a rather bad case of it myself and bump into things, drop things, knock things over, fall down easily and all that all the time.

But...it's not unusual for people who do not have autism/Asperger's to be rather clumsy.

Dropping things isn't a problem for me, but I have sprained both my ankles with in the same month and I also bump my hips into corners, which results in nasty bruises. I don't think it has anything to do with having asperges though, I just don't pay attention to what I'm doing sometimes, especially if I'm hyper focusing on something.

Many people with autism spectrum disorders are at least somewhat clumsy. It's not unusual in the least for any of us to be clumsy.

Ever since I was little, I have gotten yelled at for my clumsiness all the time. I've been told that I'm fooling around and being careless. For example, if only I hadn't been so careless, I wouldn't have fallen and got a 7 inch scar on my leg recently.

I'm the terrible combination of being a clumsy fidget. I drop/break things constantly and can barely walk in a straight line without leaving a trail of destruction in my wake.

I don't have a smartphone or anything like that due to my clumsiness. It's simply not worth the risk.

Yep. The doctor who did my assessment told me it used to be part of the diagnosis criteria but now usually gets diagnosed as dyspraxia.

I'm forever whacking my shoulders and/or hips off door frames as I go through them, and frequently have bruises from injuries I can't even remember.

I have poor gross and fine motor coordination. I typically am covered with bruises and scratches and don't remember how they got there.

The more I try to not spill something the more mess I make. I also get clumsier the more anxious iam.

My parents used to avoid taking me out to eat because I'd often end up spilling a drink (or 2).

Make that another attestation of clumsiness.

I'm always hitting my head on various objects (and I'm fairly short, so it's not due to low ceilings or the like), as well as banging my camera gear against stuff at work. Just this past weekend, I managed to close my finger in a sliding glass door. I hate it when people toss me items, because they'll usually end up on the floor rather than in my hands.

When I had to take gym class, I had a teacher who was obsessed with soccer. He insisted that each student had to dribble the ball "x" number of times during gym class, but I was lucky to hit it twice before it went careening off in some unplanned direction. My poor balance and utter lack of athletic skills were only one of many reasons I hated sports growing up (and still have no interest today).

May I call your attention to this blog post, written by a dyspraxic:

https://theblogwithonepost.wordpress.co ... e-overlap/

It describes very well how close Aspergers and dyspraxia really are; the two conditions often go hand in hand (though there are many aspies that aren't dyspraxic, and dyspraxics that don't show any sign of aspergers). In that case the call is usually made based on which is more severe; the motor coordination or the social skills. If the social skills are worse, then it's called aspergers. If the motor coordination is worse, it comes to dyspraxia. It is quite common for people to be diagnosed with both, either at the same time, or at different times in their lives.

As a good researcher should do (after all that's my job) I kept on digging through the Internet and found the following site. I sincerely hope that it's a reliable source

http://www.autism-help.org/comorbid-dys ... autism.htm

In that article, I would like to point out the following paragraph:

People with dyspraxia can have generally poor social skills due to emotional problems and/or a limited ability to ‘read’ situations and people’s body language. They may have a literal use of language and so find it hard to understand phrases, idioms and/or sarcastic conversation. People with dyspraxia are not purely autistic in the sense that they normally desire to interact with others but merely lack the ability to do so to some extent. Due to this inability to understand other people, most dyspraxics find themselves alone because it may be more comfortable for them. This inability to be around and relate to other people may cause severe frustration in a dyspraxic that may manifest as unusual emotional immaturity in childhood.

...does that not sound like Asperger's? I think I just raised more questions than I answered. There's no clear-cut line between Aspergers and dyspraxia, and they're definitely very closely related, especially if you have a very mild case of autism (as I do) and/or a very poor working memory, which I shall discuss in another thread shortly.

So to answer the original question: Sometimes people with Aspergers are clumsy, sometimes they aren't. If you've seen one person with Aspergers, you haven't seen them all.

I've had 2 interests that demand a lot of physical coordination that I have become very proficient at despite my near-universal clumsiness. It's kind of strange.

You can become OK at doing almost anything, even if you're dyspraxic. It just takes longer for you to learn the stuff than for someone "normal".