are you an unusually fast walker?

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I am a really fast walker all the time no matter where I am going. I also have really good stamina as I run cross country and track and I was the best runner on my cross country team. I also have alot of physical strength, people would tell me I have retared strength because I don't look strong and I could lift alot more than they expected.

I was actually a slow walker until last July when the first fellow aspie I ever met in real life showed me how to walk properly. I was hanging out with her all day, and I asked her to deconstruct me as she went. At one point she broke down the way that I walked. Apparently my hips weren't moving at all. You're supposed to put your butt and hips into it. You're also supposed to stand up straight with your head up.

Once I learned how to walk properly, at the age of 28, I became a fast walker.

I also walk long distances routinely. This is because I've never had a car, grew up in Los Angeles (nobody walks in L.A. ... except me!), and currently live in Las Vegas (which is built like L.A., though not nearly as big). In particular, I grew up in the northern mountainous area of L.A. County, and frequently went on long hikes, off trail, over extremely rugged terrain. I probably walk faster over loose rocks and loose dirt than I do on a flat sidewalk.

I am a rather fast walker.

I'm a fast walker, but not unusually fast.
Both my mother and I are fast walkers. We walk everywhere fast regardless of location or desired destination. I've been brought up in a family which loathes laziness and ironically, most of the time I sit around home and do nothing, but when it comes time that I need to go somewhere, I do it fast paced.

I stroll. The faster I go = higher chances of me falling or running into something. So I stroll; except when I'm late, then I run.

Me too! I am usually moving twice as fast as anyone around me and it has nothing to do with how much I want to get where I am going; it's just natural to me.

I never thought of it as being an autistic trait before. No "expert" has ever identified it as such (as far as I know,) though it is begining to appear that it is.

Someone is going to have to do a study on this.

I do too, unless I'm very tired or relaxed. I walk faster than the average person a foot and a half taller than me.

haha, awesome.

yeah, it doesnt matter how fast someone is walking, my wife tells me I have to walk faster. Bumping shoulders or not having space drives me nuts.

at the beginning of this post there was lot of talk about how annoying slow dawdlers are - I have the same feelings - most people just seem to meander along and are not really conscious of anything around them, bumping into other people and things - it annoys the hell out of me and I often mutter under my breath at them or just go steaming through them - I can only walk fast really - but that's partly because I have particular spinal problems so if I have to walk slow because they are people in the way it's really painful - then it gets too painful and i can't walk at all - I'm sure this inability to walk / move at my own fast pace - except for a quick burst - causes me immense frustration and then is followed by very high anxiety levels - I have to be able to make a get - away and if it's to painful - then kaboom - meltdown approaches.

Mainly though - damm those dawdlers!

Sometimes I walk really fast and other times I walk slower than a sloth.

I'm a veeeery fast walker. I'm not one for matching the walking pace of others, either.

Yes! OMG #$*@ slow people! Like... get out of my way. I have important places to be. Life is to important to spend so much time getting from place to place.

Yes I walk very fast, and people comment on it quite a bit. I enjoy it though, walking is a good release.

Let me clarify. While I don't speed walk, I don't dawdle either. I have a very steady pace. But if I move too fast, either I trip or my ankle decides to go down on me. Lovely hypermobility + 7 years of marching band = very sad joints.

i move so slow it draws attention to me.
i have NO energy what-so-ever.
nor do i like the outside world enough to get motivated
to move faster.



meh...

Yes very. Why does everyone walk so friggin slow??? I actually went to a shopping mall yesterday. Not my favorite place to be, but the weather was so nice I figured everyone would be at the beach. I was amazed by how slow people walk or move in general.....I constantly have to meander around the slow ones.....slow people are really upsetting to me actually.....unless of course they have a reason to be walking slow.....like they are walking with a cane.....holding the hand of a very small child....or 8 months pregnant and waddling.....