Anyone walk on their toes?

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I got out of all the teasing because I only toe-walk when I'm barefoot!

I walk on the balls of my feet, yes.

I got teased a huge amount for it in middle school and high school, and try not to. Still, I have to think about not walking that way or I toe-walk. Barefoot, it's almost impossible to walk flat-footed. Feels wrong.

I've seen a bunch of stuff on the internet for parents of autistic kids trying to teach them not to do it. Evidently they think it will cause some sort of physical harm. Seems pretty unlikely. I'm thirty-four, and the first time I remember anybody commenting on it I was seven or eight.

exactly, it hasn't hurt me. They probably just find it strange their kids do that and want to change them, like how people used to try to change left handed kids.

Very much when I was little. When I walk on the stairs I do, and also when I'm feeling "little" or going to the mailbox, which I love to do, I might toe walk.

I went to the foot doctor. He tried to scare me with horror stories of what would happen to my feet if I didn't stop walking on my toes. He said that eventually these tumors between my toes caused by the pressure would continue to grow until I could no longer walk.

Nothing like that ever happened. I have strong and unusual looking feet, and that is about it.

I received negative attention for my toe-walking because it was only one of many weird things about me when I was a kid. Even without the toe-walking, I was a fertile subject for bullies.

Do you have any tumours between your toes? I don't. I just have a thick leathery callus-pad on the ball of my foot, it gets rough like a dog's foot if I don't sand it down with pumice or something. Other than that, and muscular calves, this lifetime of toe-walking has had no effect. I do sometimes sit and bend my foot the other way, though, so the tendon doesn't get shortened, which was the horror-story the foot-doctor told me.

Actually, I've got really nice looking feet. Not unusual looking, just high-arched and graceful, As human feet go. They're not pretty compared to owl's feet or fox's feet, or cat's feet or gecko feet. Or well, any feet other than the hind feet of rats, which are as ugly as human feet.

Basically the same with me too.

I was given the horror story about the tendons too. He said I was born with my tendons too short and that is why I walk on my toes in the first place. He talked about some operation to lengthen the tendons that would put me in a wheel chair for 6 months.

I don't think i was born with my tendons too short. They are a bit tight, but they stretch out just fine.

He showed me an x-ray of what he said were benign tumors between my third and fourth toes, but they have never ever bothered me.

I tend to think that the doctor's visit was a tactic to scare me into walking flat-footed. Really I was trying to get out of Jr. High P.E....which was successfully accomplished.


My feet have gotten increasingly easier to deal with over the years. When I was younger, though, they bothered me like crazy. It hurt for me to walk for too long no matter how I was walking.
I was already horribly clumsy...and the toe walking only added to it....In school sports, I was slow...and ambidextrous so I never knew which way to hold the bat or which foot to kick with...my running gait was a waddly nightmare...no wonder i ended up being a somewhat sedentary child.

I have grown into my feet. They seldom give me troubles anymore. They are really wide in the front and narrow in the heels and very flexible. I also have very small feet. I wear a size 6 loosely.

Actually, I've inadvertantly lied in that the foot-doctor wasn't a foot-doctor, just a doctor. I doubt I was born with too-short tendons and that's not what he said, just that I should walk normally or that would happen. I was a kid and have been flexing my feet to stretch the tendons ever since. Now they stretch more than they did when the doctor examined them.

My feet have never bothered me and I've never had trouble walking long distances. I'm actually pretty graceful on them, though I do bound along like a goat in places where other hikers will climb or scramble, and hop up onto a curb instead of just stepping up, and I have a funny bouncing gait.

Same, about the general shape. Broader across the ball of my foot, narrow at the heel. The arch is very high and if I want to make a wet footprint on concrete or something, I've got to press my foot down hard and even then it just leaves a line about an inch wide where the instep touched the surface, not a mark from the whole sole of the foot. I ordered custom slippers once and had them sized by smearing my feet with paint and standing on paper, and ended up with slippers that were a little too narrow. The leather stretched, but were uncomfortable for a while. Mostly my shoes don't fit perfectly, and they wear out across the ball of the foot where I'm always flexing the sole but it's not meant to.

When I was younger I did it more often then I do now. Now I do sometimes.

I had a friend in highschool who used to always walk on her toes. I'm pretty sure she was on the autistic spectrum and that the toe walking is a fairly common autistic trait. She had really strong calf muscles from it though.

i toe walk in bare feet. i try to wear thongs or shoes everywhere and i mean everywhere.

Yup, I do it too when barefoot. When I'm thinking (like when I'm cooking and pause to decide what to put in next) I bounce from foot to foot too.

I used to toe walk all the time up to the age of 12 now I only toe walk on a cold floor in bare feet or when walking up the stairs.
I kept being told that I'd mess up my muscles if I didn't stop and I had to do these stretching exercises but they didn't do anything, I just grew out of it anyway.
My brother toe walks (he's supposed to be NT but he so isn't) and when he was 5 he had to have casts or his legs for a few months to straighten his feet out and it worked for a short while but now he toe walks all the time even with shoes on, so I call him ballerina for a laugh

I actually had my walk tested, a normal walk has the heel part of the cycle at .68 seconds mine is .28 . also my feet pull out to the sides.

I did it a lot when I was young. I suppose it was because I'm really discusted by litter so I would step on my tip-toes to avoid it. My sister also does it and now she's got problems with her feet. Strangely enough, I don't.