Embrace your clumsiness and live an awkward life | Raimke Groothuizen | TEDxBreda

Raimke shares stories from her clumsy life and instead of being ashamed of that, she embraces it and turns it into an asset. Her stories spark laughter and to look at our own clumsiness in a different way.
Raimke is een Bredase animatie filmmaker en animatie docent op een Grafisch Lyceum. Graag neemt ze haar publiek en studenten mee naar die geanimeerde wereld waarin alles mogelijk is. Haar korte animatiefilm ‘De kleine Kraai met blote billen’ heeft op filmfestivals over de hele wereld gedraaid en heeft diverse (inter)nationale prijzen gewonnen. Daarnaast kreeg Raimke in 2013 de titel ‘Jong MKB­er van Nederland’.
Toch ziet Raimke zichzelf als expert op een heel ander gebied: onhandig zijn. “Onhandigheid zijn brengt mij in de meest ongemakkelijke en gekke situaties. Maar in plaats van me daarvoor schamen, heb ik mijn eigen onhandigheid volledig omarmd.”
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@nysha4585]

Problem is that I always get scolded because my parents think I am careless and cannot do anything.

[@ingaming1635]

you are me in different gender,you don't know how good I am feeling to read that it also hapoens with others I am not alone in this world

[@dianneschoenberg4681]

I’ve driven off with the gas pump hose and handle, fall all the time, constantly break dishes and glasses, step on my husband’s feet! I fall not only going down stairs, but going up them. I also seem to have no sense of direction, not sure if this is related. I am a smart, competent person, but boy am I clumsy!

[@AM-dn1iq]

I have low sense of direction 1😔

[@mystiq_verse7709]

yeah, i hate myself for being a clusmy clusterfuck and embrace it

[@LuCifer-cf2oo]

I just wanna stop embarrassing myself in front of my crush 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@digitallocations1423]

Pray about it.
And change your name from lucifer.
Clumsiness is a spiritual attack.

[@sohaibahmed226]

I needed to hear this god I realize I was so damn clumsy today when I stepped on somebody’s shoe. Ah not good. But awesome talk

[@Mattoilers97]

I dropped my phone when I pressed the play button I’m so clumsy

[@ZweGorgeous]

lol "step out of the shadows of shame"- ish was an accurate one

[@Morghast]

37 Million Views, 191 liked and only 11 comments.... yea this exemplifies societies attitudes toward the uncoordinated

[@Pauli-xl8nr]

never embrace such thing. I will always hate myself for that no matter what.

[@bro_izzy]

Lol what is it with some girls and stick-shift?

[@MrSingh-pq4qk]

Or stop being clumsy and think through problems 🙃

[@alvarocostaalves]

i wish I could to that

[@mcooper593]

So boring. No point to this story at all 😖