A new study suggests the way kids with severe coordination problems see themselves may influence their emotional wellbeing later in life.

Coordination issues — sometimes diagnosed as developmental coordination disorder (DCD) — prevent people from accomplishing everyday tasks, such as using scissors or buttoning their shirts. The disorder can lead to frustration at school, at home and on the playground.

“Traditionally it was believed that children would outgrow any motor problems but there is now much evidence that these difficulties may continue into adolescence and beyond,” wrote Daniela Rigoli, the study’s lead author and a researcher at Curtin University in Western Australia, in an email.

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