Toe walking?

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Does anyone walk on their toes? I've been doing it since I was little and am still doing it to this day. My dad did it only when he was real little. I've been wondering if it's an AS or autism trait. Even though my dad doesn't have either.

My 15 year old daughter has done this she was a baby.

My son does. I know several other autistic children that do the same thing. I have heard it has something to do with vestibular stimulation, but I'm not sure if that's true.

I heard that isá possible AS thing indeed. I myself did it when I was little. Had to wear some kind of splint (if tha'ts the correct word) to correct it on my left foot. Otherwise my Achilles tendon might've become too short.

I've already noticed men who do it - slightly but plain enough - depending of the shoes they wear and also on their mood.

I'm 25 and I still do it.

Yes it is appraently an aspie thing along with eating your food one item at a time before moving to the next item.

my nephew is walking on his toes right now, he's about 3 yrs old.

Yep it is. I've seen plenty of auties/aspies who do it. I used to as a kid & sometimes do so when dancing. My mom worked w/ a girl once who was so bad at like 6 that she did cartwheels like that. Poor kid. If you don't try to get it corrected the tendons (achilles & such) can freeze up that way. I think its fairly-very common.

I guess I'm a true Aspie, because I do both. I've toe-walked ever since I learned how to walk. We have home movies of me where I'm clearly toe-walking as a toddler. I never had heard of anyone else doing this until I got diagnosed with AS and learned it was a symptom. That's what really convinced my mother that I had AS.

And I don't know how to do a cartwheel past the initial motion, but if I could, I don't see how else I'd do it besides toe-walking. I toe-walk 100% of the time when I'm barefoot. (When I have shoes on, it depends on what type of shoes they are.) Even if I walk backwards, run, or jump while barefoot, it's always done on my toes.
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I had equinus gait (sic), as a child, and had surgery lengthen my Achilles' Tendon.

Fat lot of good that did.

yep. i'm a toe-walker too. at least at times: not 100%.

I've always done this for fun, but even more often I walk on my heels. The heels are wobblier which seems to suit me better. I had to wear orthopedic shoes for my first 8 - 10 years to correct severe pronation, so that might have inhibited toe walking to some degree. Oh, and I eat one food item at a time too

One food at a time, absolutely. It scares me that I keep finding more things I thought were me, which are actually AS.

No toe-walking, but I can walk silently. I learned to control my tread because when I was growing up, my Dad would turn on me if he knew where I was. It sounds melodramatic, but that's why I learned to move around - in an old, creaky house - without being heard. Sometimes this means toes, but more often - perhaps because I'm naturally clumsy - it's the outside edge of the foot. This wasn't bad for me, anyway, because I'm flat-footed.

That's interesting. I also do not toe-walk, but always have run differently than the norm (got teased for it too when I was younger ), almost in a seating position.
I also obsess about running as silently as possible and with the minimum amount of lift (a bit like cats ).

Da toe walker topic

I might have tread on the toes at some point in my wee youth, though not stepped on any. But like dadsgotas, I walked on the outsides of my feet. My odd gait contributed to bunions, hammer toes and displaced toes that overlap one another.

My feet are mutilated. Morbid anatomy.