2 traits I dislike.

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I know I've discussed these issues in the past but they crossed my mind once again. Clumsiness I bang/crash into stuff in the dark or daylight for that matter. A few months ago I walk into one of those concrete parking poles that were at Sea World just IMO in the middle of the walk way POW! It took my breath away too. Sadly family laughed it off as "clumsy Brandy" There she goes again (type of view). I even trip over my own two feet in the store and at times feel like I'm fixing to fall over as of recently (whether that's normal I'm not sure as I'm no doctor.) Also I HATE with a passion scripting!! !! I do it and then family will say no we wanted you to do X then I scripted for nothing!! ! I scripted what I would say to my math teacher (but he was nice so it was ok). Of course as mention to you guys there is no pleasing them. I just wish we didn't have the above 2 issues.

I bump into things too. I've got some balance/motor issues. I don't script though. I used to but it never worked out for me.

I'm really clumsy too... Often I'll just sort of "trip" when standing (not sure how to explain it), and twice recently I've smacked my face into the wall while trying to get into my bathroom which has a sliding door and about five times I've slipped down the stairs. When we first moved into this house (a few months ago) I kept bumping into everything and it was incredibly irritating. I even hit my head on a light that was hanging from the ceiling

I also hate the fact that I'm clumsy. I'm always banging into things.

I hate slipping and tripping. I do it more than I think, and forget I did it. But I end up with muscle strains that hurt for eons.

I don't like my clumsiness, though I've come to cope with it by keeping my physical environment reasonably clutter-free, and by slowing down whenever the terrain seems unfriendly. If anybody takes me anywhere then I'm rather at their mercy, but these days with mobile phones it's no longer necessary to avoid losing the other people (by not following them into chaos). I think it's mostly a matter of taking your life into your own hands and refusing to go into environments that are likely to trip you over.

I don't know if I use scripts or not - these days I try to avoid creating long procedures in advance for anything, especially if other people are involved, because they nearly always change the remit after the fact, and I'm not good at editing my plans. So I try to keep planning down to a minimum, and I try to keep in mind that whatever I anticipate is likely to turn out different. I think the mistake that taught me a lot was when I first started this job. They wanted me to do this rather complicated scientific task, but their instructions seemed very incomplete and dependent on holding a lot of "common sense" stuff in memory, so I set about writing a complete step-by-step protocol, which ran to about 15 pages. The protocol was virtually perfect, and explained where all the stuff that was needed could be found. But it was all communal stuff and people kept moving it around, so the notes quickly went out of date, and I didn't want to edit it, I just wanted people to leave the stuff alone. I realised that the more detailed the protocol, the harder it was to change it, and that such protocols were almost useless for a dynamic situation.

i'm told that i lack "proprioception" - IOW i can't keep track of my body boundaries and so am always barking my shins on low-to-the-ground things as well as banging my head on things outside the easy scope of my eye sight. my elbows are habitually held tight to my sides as an automatic means of avoiding injury to them on hard objects outside my peripheral vision.

At my job, the objects are people. Sometimes customers, usually co-workers - but they've learned to watch out for me. It's an obstacle course, to be sure, but nobody else has the same trouble - ah well.

People are the worst objects of all......I still feel nervous if I see people in my way. Because of the visual miracle of "foreshortening," from a distance they usually look more in the way than they turn out to be, and they often politely move when they see me approaching, but even so, I wish they weren't there in the first place.

I used to be really clumsy. I still occasionally bump into things. Not sure what changed. Paradoxically, if what I am doing requires balance (surfing, skateboard) I have very good balance. But if my focus is somewhere else, I lose track of my body sometimes and bump into stuff.