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

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 6, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-walk-into-things-after-a-fraught-interaction/703899 "2014-11-06T16:47:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-walk-into-things-after-a-fraught-interaction/703899/1 "2014-11-06T16:47:45Z")

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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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**Author:** ![madrabbitwoman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-walk-into-things-after-a-fraught-interaction/703899/2 "2014-11-07T08:39:08Z")

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well there’s at least two of us

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**Author:** ![Uniqueorn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uniqueorn/32/2807_2.png) [@Uniqueorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniqueorn)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2014, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-also-tend-to-walk-into-things-after-a-fraught-interaction/703899/3 "2014-11-07T09:56:54Z")

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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.