What to Do About Being Clumsy

Trying to make peace with it. But it freaking sucks.
I’m never without a bruise, My phones barely last me a year, I always break things I like and have to glue them together. It’s like daily I have issues I can name what has happened this past week.
1. I scraped my thigh so hard against a table I was literally to the floor instantly. It left a nasty scab and huge bruise. I moved it to a safer spot
2. I drop my phone in the sink full of water
3. I drop my phone in the toilet right after I peed
4. I open the fridge door and somehow the shelf fell all on the floor, shelf snaps, and now we have to fridge space and I had to clean the floor up
5. I run into that table again in the same spot leaving another nasty scratch and bruise, it hurt sooo BAD. And it’s funny cause I moved it to that safer spot and it didn’t work 🙃
6. I was doing the dishes and I broke my favorite dish

That’s been it so far…

My embarrassment story for being clumsy are worst
- this month I spilled water on my office MacBook
- this month I forget wallet at home and travel on auto without money
- this month I spilled paints and destroy so many places at my office
- this month I took appointment for wrong month and present there at this month for the next month date
Now I feel embarrassed 😞 so down

I’m not even clumsy in the way that I spill and drop stuff like in my life I’ve spilled a coffee cup once but I feel uncoordinated. I was a 3 sport athlete and now I just feel like I walk funny and I can feel and am fully aware of my body at all times so it makes it hard to do anything naturally.

Ok but how do I stop being clumsy?

I'm not always clumsy but when I am it annoys me. Today I stepped in a mud puddle and got my shoes and socks all wet because I wasn't paying attention 😑

So there's no strategy to at least reduce clumsiness? Just accept it?

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I'm not so worried about the things they show on here but the fact that I get injuries more severe. I was in a hand/arm cast this year and last year an aircast on my foot needing physio. Last night, I dropped a glass jar on my toe and now it's purple and I'm limping. Do you have any videos on how not to get injured?

I quite strongly disagree. Acceptance and tolerance for being clumsy is just succumbing and not holding yourself to a higher standard. Whenever I mess up, I think about why it happened and how to prevent it from happening in the future. I hold myself to a high standard and apply some effort to ensure the same clumsy error does not happen again. To do otherwise and to merely accept it is to give in to repeating the same mistakes over and over again and to being mediocre. I say: Forgive yourself for the clumsy error, BUT think about why it happened and how to make it not happen again and make an effort to not repeat the same clumsy mistake. If the exact same mistake keeps happening, gradually increase the severity of the action you take to counteract it.

This made me feel a lot better. I am such a klutz and the worst is when I accidental break or damage important belongings of mine or others. It's the worst feeling when it's someone else's property and you know it was an accident and you tried to be careful, it feels like you have no control and there's this Tasmanian devil running loose breaking things and you have to take all the blame for it. 😩 I keep dropping my phone lately and I think it really messed it up this last time, which is so upsetting. But after watching this now I do feel better thinking about how so many others are clumsy too.

I’m so clumsy that I sometimes avoid the people who loves to talk to me, cuz I don’t want them to see me like this, I’m just scared that they will think I’m some sort of a loser

I'm not ashamed of my clumsy-Ness, I just don't want to hurt myself as much anymore.
That is the only reason I want to become less clumsy

I just tried making a bowl of cereal and as I tried grabbing the fruity pebbles I pulled a peanut butter jar off it hit me I dropped the cereal everywhere and the jar fell all of my dogs food😢 there was a mix of water, cereal, and dog food, and glass. Great

I have a man after me but it's a turn off that he's clumsy. I've known him for a while and have seen and heard of several accidents.

I came to watch this video because my whole family yelled and made me feel miserable for being clumsy all the time. I did embrace my clumsiness but people won't agree that fast.

I could be friends with my "inner idiot/klatz" to don't be so ashamed but I don't want to just accept it, last week I broke my favourite glass, broke a cup i gave my bf while i was washing it for him and today my 2 pajama tops fell on the floor which is very dirty and now I don't know what I'll wear for the next week...

I feel like being clumsy is not just losing confidence, but also money and time and energy.
And I really would like to know why it is happening to me. It's like...one moment when something goes wrong. And I don't know if it's lack of coordination or lack of concentration. Maybe I'm just tired, idk.

No, im not the "im clumsy uwu" type.

Im the type who will lost all my school assignments a day before due date.

I’m so clumsy I’m always spilling something on my clothes or trip or falling down and getting hurt

How did you get so insightful about so many things?

This is BS. If you want to grow you are not going to identity as a klutz. No thank you. This video was not helpful at all. It should be deleted.

Today I dropped the milk bottle and the milk spilled everywhere and then I got scolded a lot.

I don’t get it, this week alone i somehow managed to spill a cup of rum all over a kitchen counter, cut my hand while chopping carrots, nearly fell backwards while climbing up the stairs

I'm clumsy as hell!

i kind of expected a study of contracting muscles, or coordination in a graceful manner.... this video is just like diary to be able to relate, not really much solutions, just acceptance, i really love the voice over and animations though, always want to watch all videos, but the points in videos are so bimbo, i wish you would do some vids that have less important topics just meditative asmr

I feel like my life is just being miserable... my grandparents became mad too me for accidentally falling a bowl and glass cup. Do thye even know the word clumsy...?

I'm here after failing to open a car door from the inside for a minute and a half

Okay so I'm not alone🙃

I’m straight up a bull in a China shop . Like the fuck? I don’t even try to be clumsy and here I am dropping everything by breathing

So i once went outside to buy some food , when i was almost home someone told me my pants were unzipped and they were . I felt embarrassed.After not long i tripped in front of brunch of kids and they laughed at me I wanted to die .

I accept my own klutz. But I don’t think the others do.

I'm clumsy and i hate it... it's so embarrassing

I search up for this because sometimes bad luck happened to me too many times...beacuse of my clumsiness,my family always blamed me for what i did...then i kept overthinking and my brain is not even braining...that made me confused about what should i do😢...sometimes i bit my tongue when i try to speak- i don't even know what am i doing sometimes😢i don't care if people got mad because im clumsy...but im worried that what if it effects disturb my studies😢right now i felt really insecure and my confidence already gone- im not who i am anymore

It's great to accept clumsiness in daily life! But some jobs really require attention to details and you simply cannot be careless. And I have been struggling with that. Do you guys find another way out??

Idk why but I'm not shameful to be clumsy though I wanna be a well managed neat person. I really find myself cute after I do stupid silly mistakes I feel funny about how I end up messing things but rarely there are some days I think about being that neat careful and punctual freak. The other days life is really fun from my view.

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I really needed this vid

I bole my phone twice in one week

i hate being clumsy because even the things i love the most i end up not taking good care of , i will not let my clumsiness stop me from achieving my purpose

literally walked into a door while a group of boys watch me do it I never been more embarrassed in my life I hate being clumsy I dont want to accept it

I hate myself so much, I am so clumsy, I lost coordination, and I think my cerebellum is all messed up.

I would totally try to be totally tolerant of my own clumsiness.. But the real problem is when there is a fatal outcome that's gonna happen because of our own clumsiness.. That is when it isnt easy to tolerate clumsiness..

The fuck will happen even if we accept this mr klutz... Eh doesn't change the fact we will end up doing something wrong

I was clumsy when I was a child. Used to crush dishes and hit people and step my toe with door...but I simply improved it because I felt it's incompetent of me a sa grown man. I think you should have addressed this with more nuance.
Clumsiness can be improved with paying more attention to certain movements and by practicing coordination exercises and sports. I think it's important to accept your clumsiness, meaning you didn't choose it, but that doesn't mean you can't improve it. Giving people the sense that it's something they can't change about themselves is not true. Unless your coordination is seriously impaired or you have other neurological problems indicative of a coordination disorder, then it's unfair to yourself to just accept something you can improve with deliberate intentional practice. And I think it's irresponsible of you to not give an objective outlook on this.

I forget things very easily n always end up doing my things wrong though I concentrate more still I can’t 😢

I can't even walk in a straight line. I LITERALLY CANT EVEN WALK PROPERLY.

i'm here after almost breaking my face!!!

for some horrible reason i find myself tripping infront of everyone at school every few weeks, various times of the day.. I always get so injured too

I know how it feels on being clumsy, my heart feels bad and annoyed for how clumsiness puts out my behavior , I look like a fool and immature for something's which I didn't intended to do clumsiness makes me:1 anxious to do something, 2: Anxious when meeting someone or even when using my phone my hands trip and it falls down and screen break(I'm saying this because it has just happened to me now)huh clumsiness is just sad!😓😥😢😕☹️

i think one of the most healing things was when i worked at a cafe and nobody got upset at me for spilling stuff, because it's just part of being a human. instead of stressing about it, just start over. i miss being a barista.