Anyone else accident prone?

[Justanotherobserver]

It's been like this all my life. Apparently my grandmother was the same, always cutting herself or banging her head on something.

Last night, I was cutting up some cabbage and came to a tough piece so cut harder, but my thumb was in the way. It's all nicely bandaged up, but it's so sore. Sometimes I despair at how clumsy I can be.

Anyone else like this?

I'm like this too , was cutting my horrible hard toenails without soaking them first and the scissors went into my hand. I have a stash of plasters on me at all times.
I'm incredibly clumsy , broken so much crockery it's embarrassing and if I attempt a job of any kind it tends to go wrong or needs redoing! I try to be a bit more careful these days , but it's hard going to try and be more 'together' I think. My parents used to despair of me!

Me. I'm severely dyspraxic... I walk into things, people, knock things over, my worst disaster was the 60 eggs I smashed on the floor at work. No one told me that the middle of the box had a hinge... Picked up the box and the sides flipped over and the eggs went EVERYWHERE!! I was on the headset to my team leader and spent the next half an hour in floods of tears feeling useless!

dyspraxia?

Hail, fellow clumsy people, well met!

I stand up under branches and crack my head on them, I walk into doors and trip over things, my clothes get caught on door handles, I can break glass for England. By the age of eight I'd twisted my ankle so many times, someone taught me how to do a herringbone bandage so I could bind it up myself. I'm covered in a life time of scars from doing stupid things. The annoying thing is that I really do try to be careful, but it just doesn't work out.

My brother is even clumsier than me. He was tested for dyspraxia and told 'No, you're just a clumsy bastard'.

Yes. I am always, dropping things, walking into things, tripping over, cutting myself etc. I even sometimes fall over from a sitting position when doing something like tying laces. It frustrates me to tears sometimes. Recently I've been telling myself to be really slow when I'm doing things where I normally have disasters (putting glasses away, chopping veg, filling the sugar bowl), and that has helped.

One of my best was when I cut myself quite badly on a toenail, while putting on my socks.

@Justanotherobserver

One of my best was when I cut myself quite badly on a toenail, while putting on my socks.

I ripped my arm open on a barbed wire fence stopping the dog going after a muntjac deer, tripped over the telescopic handle of a suitcase and sliced my toe open at the back from one side to the other and put my hand in the washing up bowl forgetting that an apple corer and segmenter was in there my thumb was segmented!!! 😔 😔 😔 Luckily my dear friend and near neighbour is a first aider with an excellent and much used first aid box!!

Signing in. The phrase "what have you done now" is often uttered in this house. Both children have followed in my footsteps. We got a HV visit when they were toddlers after 3 A&E visits in under 2 months

My body is a map of scars.

Me. This week I managed to fall over nothing on the way to town and so I now look like a six year old who has fallen over in the playground with my scabby knee. Previously I've fallen off kerbs and sprained my ankle, tripped over a wire and fallen on my knee which then swelled up and looked like an egg had been pushed under my skin.

Yup. I trip over my own feet, misjudge doorways and bang my hip on the frame
as I walk through. Always banging my head too. While cooking, I constantly burn myself and cut my fingers. Fallen over quite a few times too.

I have been much better since taking up Pilates.

I'm waiting for an ASD assessment.

The phrase "what have you done now" is often uttered in this house

I get 'I can't believe you just did that'

My clumsiness is legendary. I'm convinced I'm dyspraxic. I have a vestibular disorder as well so my balance is shot. I don't fall over much but it takes so much concentration to stay upright that I just blunder around walking into things and hitting my head on things. I can never tell how low to duck when I'm going under tree branches when I'm out with the dog, and I'm forever cutting myself cooking and nearly setting myself alight.

I have a bruise measurement- if it's at the top of my leg it's the stairgate, middle of my thigh- bed, just above the knee- coffee table. And for reasons I can't explain I've just started walking into the arms of the chairs in the dining room, which makes bruises in a different area!
That's just a minor part of it, I could have an accident in a cupboard whilst standing still.

Oh this thread is cheering me up. When I was a waitress I always had green hips because of the corner of a worktop invariably caught one side or the other.

Today, I'm still nursing a badly cut thumb. Couldn't bear to say it at the time but I actually cut a slice off It's healing cleanly but is extremely sore.

Before anyone asks, I've had so many tetanus shots I've been told I don't need any more.

Not me but my dad. He’s a successful businessman but my god he’s so clumsy! Always banging his head on things, knocking over cups (after warning me not to knock over a cup), he cut his hand open on a razor blade once. Recently fell down a ladder, scraping the front of his shins open. My mum won’t let him do things like use a chain saw or anything else dangerous. He raced a lotus and a motorbike when he was younger, how he didn’t die is a miracle.
I learnt first aid when I was young and I’ve had to bandage him up and sort out wounds so many times on his clumsy self. I love him!

I think for him is that he does things fast all the time, he’s always rushing about so he doesn’t look for things like open windows to bang his head on.

Yup, very accident prone. I always put it down to being left handed in a right handed world. I don't just fall down stairs, I fall up them. I burn, cut, bruise myself and as it happens so often, I can't even tell you how the accidents happen. My mum, also left handed is the same.

I started a conversation once with "You know how when you are younger you are in A+E at least twice a year?" and got a lot of funny looks! Turns out some people have NEVER been to A+E!!! I didn't realise there was anything unusual in the frequency in which i injure myself, but apparently there is...

You can do an online test for dyspraxia, and it's a relief that I can say I'm Dyspraxic as it sounds better than clumsy, but I also have rotten hand eye coordination, my 5 year old grandson is better than me

We are the klutz family always slip/trip/fall and crash....no tiled floors allowed...bamboo much more forgiving......we also blame to house for doors n furniture leaping out at us.. although ds is the only one with a diagnosis....even our dog has no spatial awareness! And has been yet another source of bruises...