Do you often walk with your head at an angle?

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It's usually tilted to the right. Sometimes, to the left. It is uncomfortable - mildly painful, dizzying and disorienting to hold it straight. The degree of tilt does vary, but it is usually quite noticeable.

Now that I am thinking about it I do have a slight tilt most of the times.

You mean tilting my head to a side? Yes, often. It just happens and takes a moment to notice.

I believe it looks weird though so I try not to do that when I'm alone outside.

I tilt my head when I am sitting down. My teacher noticed this when I was watching a band play at the theatre.

not really. as far as side to side goes, i tilt my head when i am puzzled (similar to how a dog does it).
as far as "forward backward" tilting is concerned, when i am out, i usually look at the ground anywhere from my feet out to about 45 degrees (90 degrees is looking level at the horizon) .

I don't know, but I know I walk real fast and in a somewhat jumpy way. I think that's my natural walk style, but I've tried to work on it, to obtain a more cool style. So, I think I walk kind of normal now, but when lost in my own mind, the old habit comes to the surface from time to time.

I don't know about when I'm walking, I'll have to try to remember to notice sometime, but I do often tilt my head when sitting down. In fact, my head was tilted quite severely to the left when I read the title of this thread, which is why I clicked on it in the first place

straight up, whih is technically an angle

Walking with your head at an angle is a trait of Scoliosis (an asymmetry between the right and left sides of the body).
Scoliosis is much more common among Neurodiversers than among NT's.
Therefore, walking with your head at an angle is indeed a Neurodiverse trait, shared by many autistics.

Yup, I walk with it tilted to the right.
A bunch of my friends pointed it out to me once in Jr year of high school.
Everything looks slightly uneven on the computer if I hold my head straight.

But I've also had extremely bad and slightly dehabilitating posture my whole life. I ended up with scoliosis from it, among other skeletal issues.
Plus I think one of my eyes like, the tiniest bit higher than the other.
But most people's faces are slightly asymmetrical anyway.

I doubt how you walk is that bad. What do people know anyways? I know a guy who walks a bit odd and runs really screwy, but it was never even mentioned in my group (that I know of) until the other day (by me, and he wasn't there). They are probably just giving you a hard time for laughs, a typical thing amongst people!

I'd like to note about walking first though. I liked to try and mimic some bouncy walk I saw once. I also mimic what I took to be an angry walk (I like this one the most). I must appear angry when I walk around my campus. Good thing, because I don't want them bothering me.

About a year ago now probably, I realized I literally "look down my nose" at people. Maybe not so much anymore though. I noticed though in ALL of my photo IDs I had my head tilted slightly back. After I noticed that, I made a conscience effort to not look down my nose. AKA: trying to not tilt my head back.

Not when I'm walking so much, but when I'm sitting and listening or watching something I'm often tilted to the right. I'm usually not aware of it, but people have noticed and commented.

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It is usually the other way around: (Congenital or Adolescent Idiopathic) scoliosis and other skeletal issues are the cause of bad and dehabilitating posture, not the result of them.

While it is possible that in your case, scoliosis and other skeletal issues were the result rather than the cause, it is important to emphasize that Congenital or Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis and other skeletal issues are very common among aspies, as well as among other neurodiversers.

I do this.

I was told by my eye doctor that this is common in people with palsia of the trochlear nerve/muscle (helps your eye rotate around as opposed to up/down/left/right)... which I have. Usually, my eyes look aligned, but if I look at certain angles, my one goes cockeyed. The doctor said people with this will tilt their head so as to create a position in which the affected eye can comfortably stay in alignment most of the time (cause you don't stay still). Doesn't hurt for me, but I can definitely tell when my one eye is out of alignment.

My case is slight enough to where they only figured it out when I was 26 and I pointed it out to them.

I think it's both ways for me, now that I read your statement and really think about it. We're both right.

I was always hunched over and slouched as a child b/c I prefered it, especially when I was growing fastest. Developed scoliosis because my spine ended up growing crooked, ribcage got uneven from that, and my bladder is to the left, lol. And I have permanently rounded shoulders now, can't lift my arms straight up above my head. So I'm stuck sitting badly like I always have, but from the scoliosis now (although physical therapy has helped according to x-rays).

One of my aspie friends has terrible back problems worse than mine sadly, and another in the autistic spectrum has a ribcage that's different from mine, but probably just as troublesome.

I walk with my head striaght forward so the answer is no.