Motor coordination difficulties and autism

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Hi there!

As I continue to explore the possibility of being autistic, I came across dyspraxia.

Dyspraxia is not considered an autistic trait, but there seems to be a strong overlap between autism and motor coordination difficulties (ca. 80% of people with ASD also have some motor coordination difficulties to different degrees, although in many cases not extreme to the extent that they'd be diagnosed properly with dyspraxia.

For me, looking back at my life I'm wondering whether I do have that. I don't currently consider myself particularly clumsy; however, I must say that I don't really find myself in many situations at all in which I would put that at the test.

I've always had terrible handwriting. My mother used to force me to do writing practice for hours just to improve it, but it never made a difference. If I take a LOT of time and really concentrate I can make it somewhat more legible, but it never becomes pretty. I've also always been dreadful at any handiwork - DYI stuff goes completely beyond me; and as a child and teenager there were quite a few instances of people calling me clumsy & me being dreadful at sports and all that.

However, on the other hand, I am a hobby musician. Not great, but good enough to enjoy myself - doesn't that fly in the face of the motor coordination difficulties assumption? Or could it just be that I'm making up for it via muscle memory and repetition?

And how about you lot - does anyone else have similar experiences/worries/considerations?

Could you be left handed? Some lefties have terrible handwriting because they were forced to write with their right hand.

No, I'm even worse with my left hand

It's one of the common traits that I cannot relate: stories and accounts around clumsiness.

The only thing that will make me clumsy is either effects of inattention because of an overwhelmed and dysregulated system that robs my working memory and prevents me from processing things properly, or just straight up illness because I kept feeling my own body and it's making me constantly distracted by it.


Never considered myself having dyspraxia.
I don't have a motor learning specifically.

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