Do you have AS but are not clumsy?

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I am curious how many people with AS are not challenged by motor skills in proportion to those who are. Naturally I will never know. However, I'm curious to feel this out a least somewhat by posting this.

I do know many, myself included who are not clumsy at all. In fact I'm quite the opposite. Though my handwriting is almost unreadable, I was and still am extraordinarily gifted at catching a ball.

I am clumsy but I seem to have learned to disguise it well by tending to move slowly and carefully, and by arranging my environment to be fairly idiot-proof. My fixed routine and static furniture arrangements also help to avoid those "didn't realise that was there" accidents.

There's something erratic about my movements if I don't consciously modify them, and when I knock things over it's usually the result of my making a sudden move. Probably gets worse if I'm anxious, which I guess is normal. Apart from the physical predisposition, I think hyperfocus has a lot to answer for here too, making me blind to obstacles.

I think that my special interest that resulted in me spending hours and hours building model airplanes has a lot to do with my hand coordination.

I couldn't catch a ball as a kid. But, I learned to, decades later, in a rehab setting!

I was really clumsy and impatient when I was younger. I was bullied at school because I sucked at team sports and had no interest in getting better. I caused a lot of accidents by being like that, and still cause at times, though I am not that clumsy anymore, just a little bit hyperactive. My handwriting is pretty good though, especially now.

I have always been generally clumsy, but also have specific good motor areas like drawing and certain sports activities.
I suck at catching/hitting/throwing balls, but I can shoot hoops well, and good at skating, skiing, biking, which have some balancing skills in common.

I am actually skilled and not clumsy at all with so called fine motor skills. I can do nearly anything with my hands. My fingers won't shake at all when I do precise works such as threading a needle.

But I am a bit clumsy when it comes to gross motor skills, specially when I am overwhelmed. For example I can walk straight(at least I think so) but suddenly bounce against a wall. Or attempt to crouch down, lose balance and end up sitting on floor. I also have a huge trouble with activities involving other people. I can hit a teammate instead of the ball or bump on people dancing around me.

BTW. I wonder if my current clumsiness is caused by my AS itself or is it lack of practice since when I was a kid noone wanted to play with me and I was always the last one chosen to a team during sport classes and my team members were rarely throwing balls to me.

I'm classically Aspie Clumsy.

Not clumsy. I can ski, bike, keep my balance working on a steep roof, and long ago was not a bad shot with a rifle.
Not so great with my fine motor skills - my handwriting is not great.

Game on! Now there's two of us born not clumsy. Welcome to the born Non clumsy club

OK off to bed now.

Perhaps I should make clear to everyone that i am only interested in hearing from people who have autism but are NOT clumsy. I am well aware of the fact that most here are rather clumsy.

I am not clumsy. I played tennis in college for a while but had to quit because I could not keep up with my school work and tennis at the same time. My handwriting is atrocious though.

Thank you everyone. I find this very interesting.

I'm an aspie and I'm not clumsy or accident prone like, but I hate sports in general yet I have no problems with physical activities. I don't miss steps or fall down or get tripped easily, I learned fast when it comes to biking and skating; balance was my forte.
My main problem is I'm a bad shot, I'm bad at aiming with extensions involved (i can catch and throw better ONLY if my bare hands is involved, but not when hitting something with a racket or similar to that, which I kept missing) and doesn't know how to control strength ('too strong' to hit a ping pong ball 'moderately', always end up aiming 'out of bounds/lines').
My penmanship isn't good, but simply readable without making someone eye's squint. And my drawing... My mind can give me the right ones, but my hands doesn't.

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