Are there any Aspies without motor skill problems?

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I have no motor skill problems whatsoever. This is making me doubt that I have an ASD.

I actually have very good fine motor skills, from the time I was a baby. I also have good gross motor skills. I have good balance, and I almost never fall or trip over things. I enjoy athletic activities, but not team sports.

My handwriting is terrible, though.

Is there anyone else out there like this?

I've wondered the same thing for the same reason. I have excellent balance and hand/foot-eye coordination, always have I think. I can write neatly if I bother. I think (tentatively, as I'm not very clued up on all this) that there is a wide range of traits or tendencies common to people with AS but it is probably rare to have them all. I'm sure others will know more.

I don't know. I have Severe Dysgraphia and, Hyperlexia (with mild Dyscalculia and Dyslexia). I have alot of trouble with fine and gross motor skill.

I can trip over absolutely nothing and also can barely tie shoe laces, but I can play sports really well, catch and throw really well and thread thread through a needle. How that works I have no idea. I also have really bad hand writing.

I do. Overall, my balance is better than most.

And yes, my handwriting sucks too, but readable.

The reason why I'm bad at sports because I don't do well in teams, and I'm a bad shot in many ways. Yet I seem to outperform the average in various physical activities, from extreme like climbing, to something delicate like handicrafts.

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I have good eye-hand coordination. I did well when I played softball and basketball. On the field or court, I was fine in a team. (It was off the field/court that I had a problem with not gelling with the team.) I play the piano and my sight-reading skills are very good. My handwriting is not the neatest, but it is not terrible. It is legible, but I didn't get good grades for it when I was in school.

My problems come when I am just walking around doing random things. I have always tripped over myself. Still do. I have done a couple of amazing falls in recent years that if caught on camera would make a Youtube sensation. I constantly drop things and break stuff. That is why we have plastic cups and plates at our house...nicer dishes would be broken in no time (not just by me, but by my kids as well.) When washing dishes in the sink, I am constantly banging things against the side of the sink or the faucet by accident (I have broken plates and glasses this way before.) I constantly bang into doorjams and the corners of tables. When I am carrying things, I often get things caught on the doorknob. I seem to not notice when I have gotten to the bottom of a set of stairs. I have trouble stepping on to escalators.

I drop so many things, etc. that I would be concerned about MS or Parkinsons or some other neurological disease *except* that I've had this problem ALL MY LIFE. I remember falling down so often as a kid and tripping so many times and having my mother say constantly, "pick up your feet" and "pay attention to where you are going!"

I do not understand how I can be so clumsy, yet do so well in music and sports.

I am rather ungainly but I was never particularly bad at ball sports. For instance, I used to play cricket and although I was slow in the field, I was one of the team's best catchers of the ball. I was exceptionally accurate as a bowler, too.

I do share the handwriting difficulties, though. My handwriting is barely legible and usually ascends for some bizarre reason.

I have good balance, really exceptionally neat handwriting (sometimes people ask if i wrote something or had it printed), and am very clumsy. My husband sometimes says "so, first day with a new pair of feet?" I sometimes walk along with him hunting and have to be so careful in the woods because, of course, stealth is key when hunting. Oh, how hard it is for me to do stealth. I have jumped a deer or two on occasion, though...but one memorable time was when he was ahead of me and he walked by it-- it only ran when i went by. So...i am guessing he was more stealthy than i on the whole. I am a horrible shot when hunting--he took me hunting the first yr or two we were married, until we realized a hunting license for me was a total waste of money. i am a better shot on a range. With some practice i am acceptable but never in the spectacular category.

I did pretty well at skiing as a teenager--actually had a friend who had some experience tell me that for all the more i ever skied, i was quite good. It seemed to come naturally. Not sure what the difference was there--maybe it was more of a balance thing than a coordination thing? i loved skiing but it is an expensive hobby so it went by the wayside.

I can't throw or bat a ball to save my life. I was always horrible at team sports--last kid picked for teams, etc. I never played little league or anything like that.

My kids are less clumsy than i; but i am not raising any football or baseball stars, that is for sure. Even with practice, they are adequate at best. My youngest --the diagnosed ASD one--we have not even attempted to enter in any kind of league sports. He is the one who would fall off the chair at the table without warning, like Nerdygirl described her daughter. I didn't realize anybody else's kids did that. It is pretty funny but startling if you aren't used to it. He has gotten better at it with age, but we still don't give him a cup without a lid to carry into the living room.

I think I have good fine motor skills because I had never problems with handwriting and I enjoyed Lego buildings, maps or another technical drawing since childhood. But I think I have some gross motor and balance deficits because I'm bad at football, basketball, skating, and I always need to hold the rail when I'm walking stairs, especially walking down stairs. I can and I like occasionally playing certain sports such table tennis, table hokey, badminton, dancing. These sports involve some repetitive patterns, then I like.

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My balance is good now. I can stand on one foot and walk on my heels now. I can even sit on a huge ball now people use during fitness. I can hop on one foot now too and I am not stumbling into things anymore unless the room is so cluttered and messy like my kids' room is.

Hmm...a lot of these motor problems sound like what my child does. Terrible handwriting, clumsy, bad at almost anything athletic. Walking disaster at times. But excellent fine motor skills other than with the handwriting.

I started drawing so very young, and it was my obsession for years, yet no matter how hard I tried, my handwriting is not good. Not unless I spend a lot of time making the letters look nice.

Very good fine motor skills run on both sides of my family. Many people on both sides work well with their hands, and quite a few on the one side are talented artists. Natural athleticism runs on one side, too.

I wonder if any of that maybe "took over" and prevented me from having poor motor skills?
Either that or I do not have an ASD.

ASPartOfMe,

Thank you, I had never heard of Clay Marzo before. He's very good.