Ruining clothes from tripping/falling

Post Reply New Topic

I know motor skill issues are really common for autistic people to have + that we can lose our balance or fall a lot. I was wondering if anyone tripped/fell so often as a kid that they would constantly have scrapes and bruises + even ruin clothes from it?

I used to trip/fall so much that I had worn holes in the knees of all of my pants from falling onto my hands and knees constantly. I also constantly had scraped up skin on my hands and knees. They were like that until the 5th/6th grade when I finally stopped falling as much. Pretty much any time I tried to run I'd end up tripping, and I used to try to run everywhere because of hyperactivity from ADHD.

Nah didn't really ruin clothes, but I remember when my siblings and cousin got into skateboarding I kind of wanted to do it to but didn't have the coordination or probably motor skills to do it like I can barely stand on one of those without falling off. Now I have an e-scooter though I do not trust electronic travel devices that don't have handlebars...like those hoverboard things with one wheel that you just stand on with nothing to grab onto with your hands.

I didn't fall or trip a lot, or at all really, but I have always been very bad at things that require physical dexterity. I too couldn't even so much as stand on a skateboard. I loved the idea of gymnastics, but couldn't do it at all. I'm even bad at dancing. When I was a kid I had to take tennis lessons and could barely hit the ball most of the time. And so on.

I know the stereotype of the nerdy kid who is bad at sports (and team sports are a whole other level of impossible to navigate for a whole host of reasons), but I didn't know it could be an actual autistic trait.

On the contrary, my Dad used to note that I and my younger brother (approx. four years younger than me) would both go out into the same backyard at the same time, spend the same amount of time there doing the same things, and he'd come back in a filthy mess and I would come in completely clean.

I didn't like being dirty. (Still don't.)