10 Things You Discover When You Date Someone With Dyspraxia

5. Nothing Is Safe From Clumsiness

Living with someone who is actually clumsy is a bit different to the way they're presented in films. If it can get knocked over, it will get knocked over. If it can be tripped up over, it will be. Sometimes it's sweet, in a J-Law tripping up at an award's ceremony kind of way, other times it's a pain (spilling wine on a freshly cleaned carpet when you have guests over is never fun, and neither is following it up with knocking a tray of food flying). Just to make it worse, they tend to be messy people, so tend to create a lot of the clutter that they later trip up over. When someone you love is clumsy like this, seeing films or tv shows use clumsiness as a punch line becomes something you hate. It's not just something for someone to use as a character flaw, in a 'oh look at this character and how out of sync with the rest of the world they are', only to promptly be forgotten for the rest of the film. It's a part of every day life for a lot of people.