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I actually am getting less clumsy with age but that will eventually change, I am sure of it.I was so clumsy I got teased & beat up as a child.
My daughter is the exact opposite.
That girl was born with grace & poise I swear !!! Can't figure out how or where she got it. Must be recessive genes.
She never even slopped her food when she first started eating.
I'm not exaggerating either.Now she is just lazy.I don't know if the ADD caused my clumsiness ?
I had alot of accidents too beacause of it. (not in a car, however,not even a scrape or a bump)
worldisround39022.3301041667I was just talking about this w/ my sig fig! How weird :) I was reaching into the closet for a bottle of water and slammed my head into the corner of a wall right on my forehead! The thing about this that stinks: there is nada we can do about it save taking meds!
Like for organization we can practice making schedules and, well, getting organized. but, for overall clumsiness, how can we anticipate when we're going to stub our toe (uh, i've broken so many big toe nails this year by slamming my foot into something whi8le wearing sandals -- i keep telling myself i should only wear shoes around the house, but i always end up taking my shoes and socks off or wearing sandals hehe ... oh, how forgetful and unable to reflect i can be hehe) ...
Does anyone have any tips or resources they have found helpful re:clumsiness? I have cut my fingers while cleaning giant knives and had to have stitches and didn't even know that i had stopped paying attention, y'know? oh well, at least i got the rest of the day off of work :)
With age though ... all i realize so far (and i'm only 23)_ is that my working memory isn't as good as it used to be. i used to be able to memorize like a crazy kid ... it's much harder, but i do attribute that to klonipin, which while i was taking it took away my ability to add numbers in my head :) be wary of klonipin likes drugs :)
PS: When you all were younger, did you cry when you did your clumsy things? I NEVER did. I fell when i was a lil' baby and hit my head on concrete and I just got up and kept walking. My mom thought I had some African disease where I couldn't feel pain and took me to the doctor :) Wonder where I get my anxiety from lol :) So, anyone unable to feel pain when younger??
Getting clumsier with age? Since I'm medicated I've gotten LESS clumsy. I have scars to prove my clumsiness. Cut myself on every finger, burned, cut and scraped every knuckle, I have scrapes and scars up and down my knees and shins, have stubbed my toes more times than I care to remember, hit my head and my elbows routinely and cultivated bruises on my legs and hips on a regular basis. Generally this would happen walking along with my mind on something else, and that doorframe was just a bit closer than it seemed -SMACK-OW!!Unmedicated, after about the 10th time in one day I smacked into something I'd get so infuriated by my own clumsiness I'd pick up the nearest object and throw it against the wall, repeatedly, screaming bloody murder, often breaking the object and leaving a dent in the wall. The object could be a chair, a pair of scissors, a hairbrush...
These days I say "Ow, Dang-it" and keep going. Later I notice a bruise or a cut or droplet of blood and wonder where'd that come from?
At least I haven't destroyed anything lately!
Prozac works wonders for me.
Does anyone else feel like you're getting clumsier with age? Maybe I just didn't notice it as much when I was younger...
I mean I did run into the corner of a wall pretty hard when I was about 5 and got a nasty gash, requiring stitches...and I did crash face first while running to catch up with my sisters at a public pool, and knocked out a front baby tooth...and I did land on the top of my head after attempting to climb out of my high chair when I was one....
never mind.
When I have my "bad" ADHD days, I can be much more clumsy.I am sooo clumsy. It's completely because I am innatentive, i will be standing htere talking to my bf, and jsut wip around to walk into the other room wihtout acutally looking where i'm going and run right inot the side of the door. I have bruises all over my legs from doing that into the sides of my desk, end of the bed, etc...
It gets a bit better when on my meds, but maybe I am jsut clumsy 
The other day I seen this nasty bruise on my upper right arm (like someone punched me) and I can't remember what I did to it. I think I hit something but not sure when, or where. Gosh.. yeah, I'm clumsy!
ShawnB39035.8929513889[QUOTE=Gudrun]
Getting clumsier with age? Since I'm medicated I've gotten LESS clumsy. I have scars to prove my clumsiness. Cut myself on every finger, burned, cut and scraped every knuckle, I have scrapes and scars up and down my knees and shins, have stubbed my toes more times than I care to remember, hit my head and my elbows routinely and cultivated bruises on my legs and hips on a regular basis. Generally this would happen walking along with my mind on something else, and that doorframe was just a bit closer than it seemed -SMACK-OW!!Unmedicated, after about the 10th time in one day I smacked into something I'd get so infuriated by my own clumsiness I'd pick up the nearest object and throw it against the wall, repeatedly, screaming bloody murder, often breaking the object and leaving a dent in the wall. The object could be a chair, a pair of scissors, a hairbrush...
These days I say "Ow, Dang-it" and keep going. Later I notice a bruise or a cut or droplet of blood and wonder where'd that come from?
At least I haven't destroyed anything lately!
Prozac works wonders for me.
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Gudrun, are you from Iceland?
I have knocked myself out cold against the trunk of a pine tree as a kid and not felt pain, just stars. Not feeling pain was the way I could win fights because I could inflict more pain if not damages. Clumsy? Always the last pick on a team because of two left feet. I still don't like sports because I couldn't do them well. If I need to be speedy , then i'm always clumsy. But if I have my own time to do things slowly, then I can be a perfectionist without clumsy. Make any sence?
[QUOTE=ADHDinsane] When I have my "bad" ADHD days, I can be much
more clumsy.[/QUOTE]
ditto