All of us can be clumsy from time to time. But some people lack grace way more often than others. In fact, for some, clumsiness is a daily occurrence that causes them problems, as they, for example, keep breaking delicate objects and kind of become a danger to people around them. Like today's OP's girlfriend, whose clumsiness with glass objects kept injuring her partner to the point that they banned her from using them.
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Some people are so clumsy that it can be dangerous to be around them
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This woman kept breaking glass objects, and her significant other kept getting injured by the shards, as she wouldn't clean them up
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So, her partner decided to ban her from using glass cups, as they got very tired of constantly using gauze and tape for their wounds
The post's author's girlfriend had a problem with glass. To be more specific, she’s very clumsy and kept breaking various glass objects. Also, she didn't clean the messes up, so the OP constantly got injured by the shards. During the week in which the post on Reddit was published, they got injured by glass shards four times and later needed to go to urgent care, as some shards were left in their foot.
One day, when the girlfriend asked for a soda, the post’s author poured it into a plastic cup instead of a glass cup. And, well, that angered the woman. She didn’t want to hear about her clumsiness with glass and insisted that her partner was making this way bigger of a deal than it was.
Later, the couple made up, and the woman promised to inform her significant other if she broke something. After the urgent care visit, she understood how she hurt the OP and why they were angry, which caused her to be more careful with glass.
So, a nice ending, right? Well, kind of. If you’re not counting the many people online worrying about some underlying neurological issue or other kinds of health problems that are causing the OP’s girlfriend to be so clumsy. There are many health issues that can cause a person to be clumsy. Some of them are:
- Stroke;
- Seizures;
- Brain tumor;
- Brain injury;
- Substance abuse.
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Mental health problems, such as anxiety, can also be a cause of clumsiness. Usually, it’s not the symptom of anxiety but, rather, the result of it. If anxiety causes a person to have shaky or sweaty hands and distracted thinking, it’s quite normal for them to be clumsy. The problem with it starts when the same clumsiness shames the person and only adds to already existing anxiety and makes the mental health problem even worse.
Overcoming clumsiness depends on several different factors. If the cause for it is a more physical illness, such as brain damage or anything similar we already talked about, the first step is to figure out the underlying issue and treat it. With a treatment, the clumsiness might go away.
And if the cause is more related to mental health issues, the path of getting rid of it is, in a way, the same -- identifying and dealing with it. For instance, if the cause is the already mentioned anxiety, things such as meditation, exercise, or therapy might help with it.
Circling back to the story, in the update and comments, the OP cleared the air by saying that their girlfriend didn't have any underlying issues that caused her to break so many glass objects and that she's been this way since childhood. Well, that ties up the nice ending to the story, right?
Internet folks worried that the problem was way more serious than simply a woman's clumsiness, but they were reassured that nothing was wrong with her
