Individuals with autism may experience difficulties with body awareness that impair their ability to safely interact with their surroundings or with specific objects. This could affect their fine motor skills, such as fastening the buttons of a shirt or pair of jeans or holding a pen/pencil which would educationally reinvigorate their writing and drawing. Body awareness difficulties can also affect their general motor skills where coordination is significantly impaired with regards to running, walking, sports and general hand and eye coordination. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Difficulty proprioception also means that they are likely to not know their own strength and completely misjudge it. An example of this would be opening a door and slamming it against the wall due to a lack of understanding of how much power/force was needed to open the door. Other examples are throwing balls too softly or too hard and breaking something, or pushing a pencil too hard on paper while drawing and constantly breaking the tip. To imagine this it is probably best to imagine that you want a cereal gut and have difficulty with body awareness. You go to open the kitchen cabinet door but you do it with too much force and damage the handle. Then you take out the cereal box and pour breakfast into a intestine where most of the contents go into the intestine; then you go to the refrigerator and try to manipulate the milk carton from the side of the kitchen door (which seems very heavy). Next you have to remove the lid from the milk bottle, but due to your poor motor skills, this is difficult and frustrates you. If you manage to take the cap off the bottle without accidentally dropping it to add to the frustration, you've spilled the milk into your intestines but as you do so, you've dropped it from the bottle too quickly and now you've made a mess on the side. After cleaning up the mess, you walk with your cereal gut to the dining table dropping bits of breakfast on the floor because due to your poor general motor skills, you can't keep your balance when walking and can be a little clumsy. Now that you've finally sat down, you eat your cereal and drop milk and crumbs due to your inability to grip the spoon well or manipulate it from gut to mouth. Please note: this is just an example. Get a custom paper from our expert writers now. Get a Custom Essay The example above is probably how I would try to explain what it's like to have physical difficulties to a neurotypical individual who would probably find that process really frustrating if that happened to them but, for someone with those difficulties it's pretty normal and they need therapeutic activities to help them experience and judge strength, to help them develop fine and gross motor skills, and to make these difficulties much more manageable.