#poor coordination

[eyonzon31]

[adultingautistic]

in my home there’s a hallway with a decent amount of doors and it’s practically guaranteed I will slam into the doorways or the doors every time I walk unless I’m super focused on walking. Or my brain tries to compensate for it and I end crashing anyway. (For example I was busy composing this ask in my head and I ran into the doorframe) also those make sure you are not a bot things suck bc they’re built for neurotypicals (I think) and I never get them right bc I am a shitty categorizer

I am the Master Of All Klutzes and if there is a doorknob, my elbow will find it.  If there is a corner, you bet my knee is hitting that.  Thing on the edge of a table? Just fodder for my hip to whack.  Drink with no cover?  I hope you want that in your lap.  Support pole? My face can’t wait to greet you.  Precariously balanced display in a store? How about 50 boxes of cereal landing in my cart and all around me.  I once ran into a sliding glass door so hard I knocked my shoe off.  My friends, bless them, thought it was hilarious and so it is actually a good memory.  But still.  That hard.

But dear God I have learned the name for this thing, and it’s poor proprioception!  IT HAS A NAME, and there is a reason I’m so shoddy at navigating the world, and it really isn’t my fault, it’s my brain’s fault, and that has made me hate myself so much less.

As for the “Are you a human” captcha tests, I know I’m getting it “wrong” because my brain isn’t thinking like your brain!  I know what my answers are and what your answers are aren’t the same, and both of us are “right”, and if this was a normal conversation we could argue all day about the finer points on whether this is square contains a picture of a crosswalk or not, but it’s not real life and so I have to just try to “guess” what a neurotypical would guess and I can’t do that, so anon, I FEEL YOU ON THIS SO HARD.

[avictorybattle]

so i do hate how the only tip for people with dyspraxia to learn to drive is get an automatic vehicle. lmao i have a manual and no money to buy another vehicle.

i am also not dx’d with, nor am i stating that i have dyspraxia... just that have similar symptoms (such as coordination and spatial problems, etc.) which i share with people with dyspraxia. 

anyway my point is i am trying to find tips for people with similar issues and the googs is just telling me buy an automatic. D:

anyone on here with dyspraxia or coordination issues have tips for learning to drive a manual/stick?

[galeancunin]

I always think my coordination isn't that bad, but then I try to follow dance tutorials and it's a mess? Where are my limbs? What are they doing? Nobody knows, even less me.

[idoballet]

This week has been horrible please just end already. Yesterday I had a challenging bun fine class, even though I could not deliver an entire excercise, it was ok and fun.

Today I had a terrible and shitty day at eork and a terrible and shitty class. I don’t know it my teacher is tailoring the class to the most advanced girl or ehat the fuck, but I don’t remember when was the last time I felt so clumsy and dumb. Not challenged at all, just feeling like there is no way I can do what he was asking for (nobody but two girls could do it and it was poorly done) with little or no explanaition and not knowing what the hell was I doing there. Like, I actually almost cry when he vaguely explained the petit allegro and made us do it AND OF COURSE I COULD NOT DO SHIT.

I felt like saying him “oh, I’m sorry I did not take ballet as a child so my coordination sucks and I do not have the time and money to take 8 o 7 lessons like the other girls!”

I’m starting to think that there is something wrong with me, like I have the strength and my flexibility is not that bad and my balance has improved a lot, but I cannot de simple chaines. I just can’t. I do them every day and every day I fail in an almost spectacular way. I feel like there is no way I could turn, so now I just settle for “poorly done turns.”

So my turns suck and my coordination sucks. I’m fucked.

End of today’s rant.

[creativeronica]

How it feels when I step over a puddle without getting hurt...

[dotdotdotreallyquestionmark]

I wasn't even trying to post twice today but I legitimately punched myself in the face today. How? By changing clothing to ready myself for my The Dailey Method class. I've been able to successfully take off my clothing and put different clothing off for a solid amount of time but apparently not today. That thing on my cheek is not a pimple. It is broken skin from my ring cutting my own face. Cool.