Why Aspies are clumsy

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Understimulation. Whenever I'm clumsy or do something clumsy or am sort of clumsy in a way doing something, it's because I'm too bored (not just bored; that trivializes it-- seriously starved of stimulation) to pay attention to anything as understimulating as what's going on around me in this slow dark depressing world. I need light, I need motion. I have some in my head, so I daydream instead of looking where I'm going or where I'm stepping or where I'm putting my hand or my elbow or whatever.


How about you?

I'm sometimes clumsy. My big problem though is coordination and strength.

From what I understand this is still part of the disorder based on the Neurological components of it. This is what I read and was told.

It's important to read and listen to people about some other things,, but don't EVER let books or other people tell you about YOU.


I know that I'm not a spaz and that it's an attention problem and nothing more and I don't have a visual perception problem or any sensory perception problem aside from the understimulation, thank you very much.

I'm consistently clumsy no matter what's going on around me. This suggests to me that it is of neurological origin.

The most likely scenario the way I see it is that my problems with co-ordination are as neurologically deep-seated as my AS.

I'm not all that clumsy I used to be really good at horseback riding because of my good balance

I haven't ridden a horse, but I have always had good balance.

I'd understood that clumsiness in autism either had to with apraxia (motor planning deficits) or problems with visual-motor coordination

I feel it has something to do with personal space; you have trouble placing yourself in the world at large. Sometimes you don't extend your 'space' far enough outwards, and thing get bumped or tripped over. But that's me...

Understimulation is more of an environmental issue while Asperger's Syndrome is a neurological issue.

Personally I think that the cause is probably just a focus issue. Aspies are much more likely to be focused on something, and when that thing doesn't involve where they are at the moment clumsiness can result.

I'm not clumsy, quite the opposite.

But I run into walls nonetheless when I fail to look and pay attention where I am going.

But you know, usually, clumsiness in people with AS is associated with motor issues and not with boredom.