Do you also tend to walk into things after a fraught interaction?

In My Humble Opinion
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Something that I noticed almost all my life: I become temporarily dyspraxic after a talk where I was very self-conscious or afraid.

For example,

  • the other day I talked to a colleague about something he might have resented. Kept it civil and low-key. Walked into the doorjamb on my way out.
  • on the street some time, declined an invitation to a fight from an aggressive teenager. Walked into a lamppost.
  • when I was a teenager myself, nerved byself to say hi to a girl, walked on, tripped over my own feet.

Is that just me or is it common?

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well there’s at least two of us

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In Brain Gym and similar schools of kinesiology, they describe a person as homolateral when they are stressed or in a fight/flight response. Symptoms can be dyspraxia, general unbalancedness, verbal diarrhea, etc.

Treatment is to do anything that involves both brain and body hemispheres, like cross crawling, juggling, etc.