Walking on tiptoes?

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Since I started to walk I have toe-walked. When I was about five I got casts on both my legs to help. Afterwards, I had to these plastic things (daffos?) on my feet at night and sometimes during the day. My feet are incredibly flat. I've been to PT and OT because of the toe-walking and balance issues (cannot ride a bike).

When I was a little girl I lived on a street in northern calf call Ave Del Ora, I walked on my toes, and the best ting about sunny calf for you didn't have to wear shoes, I don't know if at some point early on some one told me that I looked like a ballerina because of the way i walked but that was my first remembered obsession- to be a ballerina. every thing with me was ballerina , I didn’t smile or talk because ballerina dancers wouldn’t, I wanted to be thin like a dancer so I didn’t eat, I thought that the trees looked like ballerinas with there arms/hand/branches swaging about there heads fingers/leaves twinkling (like I did) the grass and flowers were dancing too. So I would tip toe up and down the block with by arms wavering and swaging, twinkling. The warm calf paithment burning the desire to arch my feet higher. The sounds of the 60's blaring from the neighbors am radios, a popular song by the cow sills would play often, “the rain, the park, and other things” most people know is as the flowergirl song. I would tie weeping willow vine/branches around my waist and head like a tutu and hallo thinking I looked like a prima ballerina and the neighbors on Ave Del Ora would say look there goes the flowergirl and sing to me we love the flowergirl. Infuriated I would hold my hand up higher and tip toe faster thinking if a tried harder that evenchally I would be seen for my true self a ballerina, a prima ballerina, dressed in green leaves, as thing go, little girls grow up and dreams and obsessions change and I don’t tip toe much any more, in time I learned to follow a different direction an obsession my true destiny –to be a flowergirl I surround my self with the green growing things in nature like flowers and leaves in my small flower shop and I lesson to the sounds of the 60’s and 70’6 often, and I still like to twinkle my leave(fingers) and walk in me bare feet.

My father (whom I suspect also had Aspergers) almost always walked on his tippy toes.

Love the idea of using symbols!

I always walk(ed) like this:

\ /

Anyone walking like this try ballet!

It's perfect for ballet. Others need to train for the same effect!




And about the outer brink/balancing thing, well, it's like this:

I walk only on the coloured area... if that were a 3-D foot. You folks get the idea.





Anyway, I never tow-walked because I'd always just... fall. Toe-walking just didn't go right with my statue somehow. I could hardly do it, it was horribly uncomfortable.



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That is a good way to stand. On the insides I mean. If you dance or do sports that require balance and a non-damaging posture!

Oh yes, I walk with my feet out like \ / as well. I tried to straighten my feet to point toes more forward over time, but I still just walk the same way. *shrug*

Mine is an actual birth defect - my achilles tendons are actually shorter than the average size. This means it can get very difficult to walk on my heels when not wearing shoes. When I was younger, it was impossible.

I catch myself tippie toe walking quite a bit. When barefoot it's more pronounced, with shoes I tend to lift up just enough to keep the heel of my foot from hitting the ground. I do have an issue about the coordination/balance thing too-- I used to skateboard and dirt jump BMX quite a bit when I was younger. Probably still would had I net been plowed over by a car in 2007 and received a case of sciatica from the ordeal. Funny thing though-- after the accident I rode the very bike I was hit on to my physical therapy sessions (after many hours of re bending the frame and crank, and re truing the rims). When playing guitar I HAVE noticed that I just can't get rapid finger combinations like I would like to. I KNOW the parts and can play them at a slower rhythm, but up to speed... SLOPPY. Could this be a dexterity issue?

I actually started looking at toewalking after a search to see why the BACK of my heel is so sore, and finding toewalking is one possibility. I never really payed much attention to how I walk, but I recall when I was in elementary school, the doctor did have me walk across the room and back, he watched how I walked, and told me I needed to stretch the muscles in the back of my calf more. I also looked at a few pairs of shoes/boots that I have worn for a while, and, especially with the boots, the sole under the ball of my foot is what's worn (the boots, it's almost worn out) while the heel is practically new

I dunno, but I'm having basically the same thing happen with my piping, both with D Throws and with Taorluaths. I just can't seem to speed them up and keep them clean. Weird thing is, I can type about 65-70WPM without a problem on a decent keyboard.

I always walk toe-first when barefoot. I'm flat footed anyway, but toe-first is stealth walking. I get overly self conscious about waking people ... which I've been able to trace back to my older brother beating me when I woke him in the morning. I became stealthy as self defense.

Anyway, when I run barefoot, it's all tiptoes. It's fun and feels good. Like you're floating.

I, like Sora, walk on the outsides of my feet. Starting on the the outside of the heel, so that I do not bob at all when I walk. It definitely suits a sensory purpose, if only for the sake of my eyes. A book could be balanced on my head at all times, so that walking for me is like a panning video camera... No up and down. Smooth.

I used to toe walk frequently, but I understood pretty early that it wasn't normal and didn't do it publicly. I also rest my feet much as you do, but I prefer to rub my feet against carpet or other rough surfaces. Then again, I have pretty tough feet.

I still do that sometimes... yet rarely I don't remember walking tiptoed...

When barefoot, which I usually am, I do this a lot.

If someone isn't practicing for ballet, then why would anyone walk on their tiptoes? It's so god-dang weird to think about and I can imagine it'd be a little painful/sore after a while.

I constantly did this as a kid to the point where it was very noticeable. I will still do it occasionally when I am in sensitive states where I am processing the world more vividly than usual...once it was before a presentation where I had minimal sleep the night before, and my co-presenter told me later that I was doing it. I didn't even notice!

It's a sensory preference for myself...I just like the feeling of being slightly off the ground. It's the reason I wear heels most of the time.

I walk on my toes a lot. I have no idea why, but I've done it as long as I can remember.