Re: Chronically missing stairs and losing balance

[sdwa]

I fall upstairs a lot. I fall off the sidewalk, or just plain fall down while I’m walking. I walk into door frames and protruding corners of furniture. I drop and spill things. If I have to carry multiple objects, I do it awkwardly. My sense of the space around me or of how objects move and interact is not that great. No problem at all with fine motor skills, like writing or drawing – but clumsy when it comes to running, throwing, riding a bike. Poor sense of balance. I can accurately guess the size of a fixed space by looking at it, such as part of a room, which I’ve confirmed by measuring – but I can’t parallel park. When I’ve tried exercise classes in which the instructor faced the room, I couldn’t watch them and move the same arm or leg – can’t reverse my position in my mind. I’d have to be standing behind someone to copy their movements. I can’t follow the directions to fold anything in a complicated way unless I see it dozens of times – as in doing origami or making clothes look nice on a shelf. I can’t wrap a gift without it looking like a kid did it. Weird, huh? The problem seems mostly to be in navigating through space. If I can rely on visual cues, I do a lot better.

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