30 years old and I cant navigate stairs or fasten my shoe laces properly.

[darkriver198868]

Please tell me I am not the only one? Its a massive running joke with my friends regarding shoelaces always being undone. I cant help thinking I am a bright woman but a 6 years old can master stuff like this.

You’re not dyspraxic are you?

Um

Do you fall over a lot? And how's your hand writing?

It sounds like Dyspraxia

Tbh I don't wear lace ups and what is wrong with using banister/handrail for steadiness?

It does sounds like dyspraxia.

I regularly put my sons shoes on the wrong feet and I’m over 40- if I were his age I think I’d get a dyspraxia diagnosis however mild. I have no sense of direction or ability to copy movements - I always struggled at school being told off for being untidy, sloppy , having my margin on the wrong side of the page etc.

Dyspraxia.

My handwriting is incredibly neat and I dont fall over at all. However, when I am on stairs my balance feels really off. @Flibberty even using a handrail feels difficult. I have to get downs some stairs to access my part of the town where I live.

Oh yes, I cant tell my left from my right.

I haven’t got the shoelace thing but I am very unsteady on the stairs, it’s a symptom of my anxiety. I’m not generally height phobic but I have to really concentrate and try not to panic when I’m on a big staircase, because if I start to overthink it it’s enough to make me feel like I’ll stumble.

Sorry, meant to add my first thought was dyspraxia too though

I can't tie my shoe laces and am on the autistic spectrum. Also have a tendency to fall over my feet and for a long time had to take stairs by putting both feet on each step, if that makes sense?

For the shoe laces, have you tried doing two loops and double knotting them together?

Another one saying look into dyspraxia.

Velcro or self-tie elastic laces

Hi OP I am dyspraxic. Here are some of the things I do
Struggle with balance and fall over thin air
Spill food when eating it
Get lost with directions
Tie laces backwards
Can't knit or crochet as I do it backwards
Forget things and why I am somewhere
Jumbled speech sometimes
Bump in to things

I'm not good with shoelaces (due to an injury) and I just have "hickeys" in all my shoes.

Does sound like dyspraxia though.