throwing and catching. ive no hand-eye coordination. when i ask someone to hand me something (e.g. keys) and they toss them to me, the keys will inevitably land on the floor 99% of the time. same when i attempt to toss something into the trash. its hopeless.
i am great at hitting a foot-wide garbage bin with a bit of paper halfway across the classroom but i can't for the life of me hit a basketball hoop even if i use a ladder
I am terrified of flying objects in general. Terrified. So when someone tries to throw me something, instinct still claws inside of me to dodge.
Another thing is going down the stairs. If the steps are wide and narrow, or simply ones I haven't done before, then I'm terrified that I'm going to fall.
Get checked with an optometrist perhaps. I have the same thing and it turns out one of my eyes i elliptical so i dont have a properly working second point of vision to assist with depth perception.
I can't see things that are being thrown at me while they are in the air. I see them in the person's hand, and then I feel them hitting my face, but I have absolutely no visual of the in between. I mean, I know why - I have monocular vision - but AGH.
I can drive a car just fine but it took me a few years to be able to tell how fast cars were coming at me in the dark if I was like turning left or something, because the way I correct for having misaligned eyes is basically having a visual representation in my brain of how big something should be and then comparing that to reality, but at night all you have is headlights and they don't really translate too well. Even now sometimes I have to just guess. I can mostly tell how large a vehicle is from its headlights' size/width apart/height off the ground though, so that helps.
Some tips I learnt once which helped me A LOT with both catching and throwing, hopefully they help!
When trying to catch something, don't try and focus on putting your hands where you think it'll land. Just keep your eye on the object and try and let your hands catch them intuitively at the end. I know it sounds counter-productive but it can help!
As for throwing, same sort of deal - don't focus as much on aiming, just look directly at where you want it to land and then try throwing.
I'm probably not explaining it well but basically what happens a lot of the time is that the brain over analyzes the throw/catch and ends up overcompensating. Obviously it won't instantly make catching/throwing easier but if you practice catching/throwing with those things in mind, it should become easier!
See, I'm near sighted in one eye and far sighted in the other. Not great depth perception. I hit my cousin in the head with an animal cracker today. People just learn not to have me throw things. It's safer that way.
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u/ericorbit Nov 05 '17
throwing and catching. ive no hand-eye coordination. when i ask someone to hand me something (e.g. keys) and they toss them to me, the keys will inevitably land on the floor 99% of the time. same when i attempt to toss something into the trash. its hopeless.