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Is anyone here really clumsy?
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| ApplePi |
Posted on March 13 2009 11:23 PM
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I hate being such a klutz. Sure, it makes for interesting stories if there's a moment of silence, but it makes me feel stupid. If I'm in a class I'm really good at, and I bang into something or trip, then everyone is always surprised that I'd trip, since they didn't think of me as the ditzy sort of girl. But if I'm in a class I'm awful at (athemmm) then it makes me look even more dumb than I normally am. One time, during final exams, it was dead silent, and I was confused about how a question was phrased. So I decided to walk up and ask the proctor who was administering the final exam. Lo and behold (love that phrase) there was a huge, swivel chair in front of my desk that I forgot happened to be there. I tripped on it, and it fell over. Naturally everyone jumped, since it was so quiet you could hear people texting. My real teacher was out in the hall (not the one administering the test) and he was floating between classrooms, checking in on all of his classes who were doing finals. He heard the crash, and ran over. Just recently, there were several extension cords out in science, and I tripped, disconnecting them and breaking my teacher's remote. To make things worse, when I trip, I usually start laughing hysterically, and I can't settle down. I don't laugh because I find the situation hilarious, its just a embarassed reaction. Does anyone have tips for being more aware of their surroundings, and not appearing so klutzy? |
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| ert |
Posted on March 13 2009 11:34 PM
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<---- fell on her bike today in the middle of traffic, holes in pants and dirt all over. No time to do anything about it, had to go to work!
Should say, I ride my bike every day. I just lost balance. I do that from time to time. I'm lucky nothing major major has happened yet, but I keep using my bike to get around, because I know that me and traffic is just as dangerous on my feet as on my bike. I trip over my own feet when I can.
Just an ordinary day in my life. A couple of weeks ago I fell down the stairs. I spill cups every day. I cut and burn myself when I'm cooking. I put shampoo in my eyes when I'm washing my hair, and it is a VERY stupid idea for me to brush my teeth after I've put on clothes if I don't want to walk around with toothpaste stains all day.
I don't know what to do about it, I think it's just how I am. I did occupational therapy every week from kindergarten to 5th grade. I have no idea if it helped or not. Probably a little. But I could probably benifit from more, now that I'm an adult. Maybe I can find the money when I'm done with college.
Try occupational therapy? It can be everything from the therapist using small objects like a brush on your hand (makes you and your brain aware of your body), to balancing on a ball.
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| Laura |
Posted on March 13 2009 11:41 PM
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Hey ApplePi
Not really got any tips on how to de-klutz yourself.
Just wanted to say i know how you feel i am a nightmare in falling over things etc
I fall all the time over my pajama bottoms all the time my toes seem to get tangled in it for some weird reason. I trip over my own feet all the time. Walking along a road i will trip up all the time. I bump into door frames all the time, even when i try and dodge them.
Your incidents are more sever than mines and i feel so sorry for you
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| Laura |
Posted on March 13 2009 11:45 PM
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"Just an ordinary day in my life. A couple of weeks ago I fell down the stairs. I spill cups every day. I cut and burn myself when I'm cooking. I put shampoo in my eyes when I'm washing my hair, and it is a VERY stupid idea for me to brush my teeth after I've put on clothes if I don't want to walk around with toothpaste stains all day."
This is so me, you so described me Ert. I am known in my house as the messy pup as i am always coming back after brushing my teeth with white stains on my tops, I always end up with shampoo in my eyes. I can not carry a tray of drinks. I normally can't even carry 1 cup as my hands shake as i am so nervous incase i spill it
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| ert |
Posted on March 14 2009 12:18 AM
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Tip for not getting shampoo in your eyes: Swim goggles! It's silly, but it works. I use them sometimes when my hair gets a full work with shampoo, conditioner and hair cure - or when I colour my hair. On a daily basis I just shower with my eyes closed, but I manage to get shampoo in my eyes anyway most of the time.
And kids love goggles.
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on March 14 2009 01:02 AM
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Oooh yeah, you are talking to the Queen Klutz here! Just today I dropped my mac and cheese all over the floor as I was pulling it out of the microwave... which made me very sad because I am lactose intolerant and I looked high and low for soy-cheese lactose free mac and cheese and I only got one bite before I dropped it.  At least now I know where to go back and buy more of it.
One of the stupidest things I do on an almost daily basis is running into the corners of walls (like in a hallway where it turns) or door frames. Whenever I go around one particular hallway corner in my house I almost always hit it with my shoulder or hip... it's like I have no concept of my width, and I just SLAM my hipbone into the corner of the wall or the door frame as I'm walking around it.
I can't tell you how many hip bruises I've had just from trying to walk around my own home. It was really entertaining at my old job when I used to wear my phone on my hip, thus widening myself another 2 inches... I ran into so many displays that I completely desensitized my co-workers to loud crashes. It got to the point where I would just yell out, "I'm okay!" and nobody as much as got up to see what I had destroyed.
It is a well-known fact in my family that if you want to see a piece of glassware stay in one piece, you don't hand it to me. I never get glass cups at family dinners... I still drink out of the same plastic cups I did when I was a kid, lol. Those I can't break.
Hitting my head when I get in and out of the car, tripping, falling, dropping things, breaking things, running into inanimate objects with my car... I am so clumsy I am basically a one-woman wrecking ball.
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| classclownfish |
Posted on March 14 2009 01:21 AM
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Oh, yes.
I fall up the stairs, I fall over when I'm standing still. I almost always end up slamming my shoulder into a doorway if I'm having trouble judging the width (I'm not a large person who can't fit in the doorway, I just have some issues with my perception of my space).
Oh yeah, and the best one so far has been when I tripped over a chair and broke my little toe. That's right. 
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 14 2009 01:40 AM
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3/13/09
This is a very funny Thread. Kat, by the time I got to the part where at work you yell out, "I'm all right!", I was LOL. Thanks to you all for sharing. I won't share mine, as I'm still in 'denial' that my bumping into doorways, dropping a whole skillet of spaggetti sauce, and pinning my little finger between a piece of plywood and the hall wall (couldn't let go of the plywood to pick up the phone either) have anything to do with any disability on my part. So, all of you, go right ahead and make my day with your funny stories. I'll just keep mum (i.e., silent) this time. - jus' |
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| Dulcy |
Posted on March 14 2009 05:28 AM
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Yeah. I'm not a real bad clutz, but I AM a clutz.
I do know that about myself, however, so I tend to move carefully when I am in a situation where my clutziness could cause a problem. I'm extra careful on stairs, or if I"m carrying a child or something breakable.
My mom used to call me "Grace." 
My sister, who has many dyscalculia symptoms and who may be dyscalculic to some extent, is a BAD clutz. She's way worse than I am.
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with your one wild and precious life?"
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| Mohinga |
Posted on March 14 2009 09:38 AM
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Oh yes, I am pretty good at being clumsy.
My husband laughs himself silly everytime he remembers the sewing machine incident: My mum's sewing machine, which was on the floor, somehow got caught in my trouser leg, was lifted an inch or so off the floor and then landed on my toe.
I have a beautiful scar on my forehead from walking into a road sign which I didn't notice
I always have a cut or burn on my fingers and on one embarrassing occasion I swung a frying pan too close to my bust 
Over the years, I have learnt to live with it and I believe that I am the main reason why my family is never bored 
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| ert |
Posted on March 14 2009 09:45 PM
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CheshireKat wrote: Just today I dropped my mac and cheese all over the floor as I was pulling it out of the microwave...
Oh, the old "getting hot food out of the microwave"-trick. Been there, done that, billions of times. Sometimes I take the... oh what is it called, you know the black plate thingy from a real oven... Is it just an oven plate? Anyway I take that out of my oven, go to my microwave and slip the plate with food on to the black oven plate. I can balance better with a huge oven plate than a small plate with food. Weird, I know. |
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| monkeyfeathersmom |
Posted on March 15 2009 01:21 AM
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Monkeyfeathers asked me to respond as she's getting ready to go to Las Vegas tomorrow to visit my brother and sister-in-law.
The poor thing walked right into a cabinet today. She bounced right off of it. It's almost an everyday occurrence for her to walk into the doorframe or fall up stairs at school. She, too, trips on pajama pants and falls. She can also just fall over when standing up straight. She's known to fall out of chairs for no reason. I'm surprised they don't accuse her of being drunk in school. She weaves and bumps into things so often!
We didn't replace our carpeting until the girls got older, because MF's would spill whatever she was drinking almost on a daily basis. She's forbidden from wearing her sister's shirts because she inevitably leaves spots on them. In fact, she routinely drops things... books, rackets, anything in her hands.
I lol'd when CheshireKat said she just yells "I'm OK!" whenever she knocks over something. MF's does the same. We'll hear a loud noise and then "I'm OK!"
She does not ride a bicycle nor skate.
It sounds as if I'm telling tales about her, but we all know it is just part of the wonderous thing that is her. She, too, accepts it as how she is and is a good sport about laughing at herself.
Parent of math impaired 14 year old daughter.
"...they think a lot of my issues are caused by math anxiety (but my anxiety would be caused by dyscalulia, now wouldn't it?)" - AnimalHugger |
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| Lostinspatial |
Posted on March 16 2009 01:20 PM
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Let's put it this way, I have stain resistant carpeting and I don't have kids. Also, I had to get rid of glass end tables when I somehow managed to break the glass of my coffee table (which required a trip to the ER & stitches). I thought about getting a stuffed ottomoan style coffee table as I regularly walk into the corners of the one I have now, But I'm afraid I'll spill coffee or tea if I set them down on it. I've often joked I should wrap myself in bubble wrap for my own good. |
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| justfoundout |
Posted on March 16 2009 02:53 PM
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I wore a clean white shirt to work on a day that I had an appointment after work with the Counselor at a Disability Office. Sometime during the day, I'd taken a bite of brisket on bread that had been spread with barbeque sauce. At the end of the day, before leaving work for my appointment, I looked down at the front of my shirt. I'm surprised that no one had called 911, thinking that I'd been the victim of street violence. And I had to go out of my way to go home and change before the appointment,... otherwise, the psychologist's report would have surely been 'seconded'. - jus' |
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| CheshireKat |
Posted on March 16 2009 03:32 PM
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MFM - When I was 10 I went to New Mexico to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousins out there. My cousin Jessie was close in age to me, 12, so we got along really well. At the end of the week she decided she wanted to give me her pair of roller blades that she had recently grown out of, that fit me just right. My mom was horrified - she had been trying to avoid giving me my own pair, because every time I went to Skate Station (a skating rink) I would rent a pair for the night and come home mostly black and blue. Gosh, I remember when skating rinks were still cool... I miss the 90s.
Jus, LOL at the white shirt story. The story I worked at until January had a dress code for employees of black pants, white shirt. I don't usually wear white because I am so fair-skinned that white just makes me look even whiter, but also because I can't keep it clean for more than five minutes. ALL of my work shirts had stains on them, every single one, some from the most random causes. One of my co-workers and I made a pact to wear purple shirts in lieu of white, since our company logo was purple... it's a lot harder to noticeably stain a purple shirt!
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| Pixie |
Posted on April 06 2010 02:28 PM
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Haha I'm clumsy.
There was this time were I was in Drama and I went to walk off stage we only had one set of stage blocks so we had to use a chair I stoo on it and fell backwards everone burst out laughing.
You'll get used to it I've got to the point were if I fall over no one really reacts. |
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