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consolecadet · 2 months

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Thinking about how my fine motor skills/manual dexterity are fairly good (relatively fast touch typist, ok at many types of art, envied by peers for my onion-dicing abilities) but my gross motor skills & proprioception are less good and feel significantly degraded by joint problems with EDS (historically bad at sports, often knock things over especially when using a cane, was horrible at throwing/catching objects until Something Changed in 2019). World's least graceful artist

#the throwing and catching things issue may have had more to do with how people treated me as a kid #the primary shift was becoming less afraid of 1) failure and 2) things hitting me in the face #turns out if you keep your eyes open and track the object's trajectory you are much more likely to catch it #as opposed to closing your eyes and instinctively shielding your body #[shrug emoji]#I am pretty good at PT though...#it might be specifically time pressure and trying to coordinate many movements at once that's the problem #if you want me to isolate one specific non-hand muscle for an exercise I can definitely do that #which is why I uh. have judged people for needing straws to drink after top surgery #just move your forearm without engaging your pecs! duh.#ANYWAY. distracted at work about this. gotta go #boring text posts #medical

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