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 Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:30 am Post subject: How old were you when you started to walk? |
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I was 2, and the doctors were already worried. Then I was very late learning to ride a bike. SAme about learning to drive a car. And I still practically can't swim.
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zeldapsychology
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WOW! I know I was a late walker and I haven't learned to drive yet or swim.  22 by the way! |
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Danielismyname
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9 months.
Stereotypically, my motor development was fine (it was probably above average in reality). I rode a bike at an early age; the same with swimming.
Just another one of those pointers to "HFA" for me in comparison to AS. |
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Greentea
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The Yale article says that motor skills problems is not necessarily present in AS. It says the lack of social subtext recognition alone is enough for an AS diagnosis.
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sartresue
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:17 am Post subject: How old were you when you started to walk? |
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Bipedal locomotion topic
I was 18 months old. I used to scoot around the floor like a chimp or a gorilla. It took me a long time to ride a bike, swim, and I still cannot drive a motor vehicle (I failed the test 20 times!). The psychologist who diagnosed me said this does happen in AS, but not all Autistic people are dyspraxic/unco-ordinated.
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Danielismyname
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Nah, the motor deficit isn't needed; it's an associated feature in many cases.
For the most part (speaking generally), motor development in those with Autism is usually on time in comparison to verbal and cognitive delays, whereas the individual with AS [or NVLD] usually has problems with motor development in comparison to their verbal and cognitive profiles. |
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Sora
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I was walking with holding onto stuff at apparently 6-8 months and learned walking by myself at some 8 months or so.
I wasn't interested in learning how to ride a bike before I was 6 years. Then I just got the bike and started and managed to hold my balance during one afternoon. It was very easy to me.
Same with swimming. When I was 5 I just wandered off to the kid's pool while my family was swimming in the adult area and then showed them that I had learnt the breast- and backstroke in the past hour. Also, extremely easy to learn for me once I tried it.
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me, you will not believe it *drumroll* 5 1/2 to 6 years OLD yes you read right, i guess i became really close to getting put in a wheelchair or getting leg braces, being i remember being in a school were everyone else was using either crutches (them forearm type) KAYE reverse walkers or wheelchairs or braces (like forrest gump had, metal "callipers" as they call them in the uk) i walk fine now but still when i do it looks like i pooped myself. when i run it looks like im drunk and trying to run away from something scary.
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About nine months old. By a year, my parents said I was running. I was mistakenly labeled hyperactive because I was on the go so much. I was fairly athletic as a small child. That activity was balanced by a love of books, so I didn't have trouble learning.
I am a pretty strong swimmer and I learned to ride a bike when I was six. I don't drive, however, and am not a fast runner now. |
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Reodor_Felgen
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Couldn't walk before I was 2 years old, but was crawling at the age of 5 months. I also learned to ride a bike quite early.
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I think i was kind of a late walker...but not sure....
My mom was real concerned because she thought my hands and feet seemed underdevloped.
I have always had bad motor skills..I am stiff, akward, and clumsy.
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13 months. I got up and walked across the floor. After my grandmother left. After she and my mother had been trying to get me to walk (while I just sat there). No one saw me practice. 
I was late with bike riding and driving, but probably on time (or even a little early?) with swimming, since the alternative was those awful life jackets. (We had a cottage so I grew up around the water.) |
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I was a year and a half. And I learned to ride a bike when I was six, struggled a bit though.
And I learned to swim when I was nine or ten.
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I don't know exactly when it was that I began to walk, but it was pretty late, roughly around age 2. My parents told me that I used to crawl in a funny way, like a 'wounded soldier,' before I started walking. I learnt to swim at an early age (4-5) but that's because I had weekly swimming lessons, and I learned to ride a bike at a normal age. I do have difficulties with driving, due to poor spatial awareness, poor depth perception and lack of ability to multitask, but I'm getting there. I hope to pass my test by August.
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Shelby
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I think it is fairly common for children with ASDs to be late walkers. I was 14 months and still not crawling, so one of my mom's friends who was some kind of nurse "taught" me to crawl. People used to be concerned that if you didn't learn to crawl, you will become autistic. So she taught me to crawl - ha! I'm autistic anyway! I learned to walk shortly afterwards. I was 7 or 8 before I could ride a bike and I remember being in the beginner group of swimming long after the other kids had moved on. I was 22 before I learned to drive, and I had to give up learning manual (stick shift) because I just couldn't get it.
I work with kids now and I'm very concerned with any child who is not walking by 14 - 15 months. Unless there is some physical problem, kids who walk late also have a tendency to have later language and often some autistic behaviors. |
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