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17 Aug 2008, 5:17 pm

If there is any connection, it's likely the connection purported to exist between autism and loose joints. (Since flat feet are often caused by loose joints.)


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18 Aug 2008, 1:33 am

anbuend wrote:
If there is any connection, it's likely the connection purported to exist between autism and loose joints. (Since flat feet are often caused by loose joints.)


Interesting suggestion. Anyhow, Aspie-quiz' Aspie score is correlated to "flat feet" 0.19 and to "loose joints" 0.24. These are both small correlations, but due to large samples both are significant (p < 0.0001).



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18 Aug 2008, 1:40 am

Can't feet can be the result of wearing shoes like mocassins, rather than tennis shoes. So imagine an aspie who has sensory issues with typical shoes may end up with flat feet



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18 Aug 2008, 2:31 am

I have flat feet. I doubt it has any corellation with AS though. I think it's mainly genetics.



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18 Aug 2008, 2:56 am

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I don't think there is really any connection. Flat feet should not be seen as a recessive gene issue nor a disability linked to other disabilities. Flat feet is more associated with ethnicity as more darker skin people such as Native Americans and Hispanics are almost all flat footed. Its because we were made to be walking barefoot on the forest floor. Some doctors mistakingly believe flat foot is a fallen arch. But it is not fallen if you were that way from birth. If you have flat foot it is probably just a link from your ethnic past. Races that wore shoes tend to have higher arches because walking in shoes takes different muscles than walking barefoot.

If you feel bad about yourself just get some arch support insoles, feel good about being an Aspie and get on with it. Cheers!

Most of this does not make any sense. Either it is genetic and linked to ethnicity, or it's environmental and therefore ethnicity is not a causal link. Whether or not one's ancestors wore shoes is utterly irrelevant to the shape/structure of one's own foot.

The last sentence is very good advice.



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18 Aug 2008, 3:54 am

I have painfully flat feet, but I have worked on concrete floors most of my life, I think its common with anyone who in on their feet all day, it was one of the reasons I wasn't accepted into the military, I started getting flat feet in cadet's did a lot of marching.



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18 Aug 2008, 6:40 am

nope, freakishly high arches and excelent balance here..

is there a link between HIGH arches and it?
i take your point, though- i have no idea why physical whatsits should be related, but flat foreheads (yes me) and looking freakishly young (yes me again) are anecdotally common amoungst aspies. and ring finger length is well documentated as being related to the exposure of the foetus to testosterone etc- who knows...



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09 Jan 2012, 1:48 am

I have freakishly flat feet, though of course there may be no relation.



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09 Jan 2012, 4:29 am

If you want to exercise all the muscles in your feet and then some wear MBT's instead of shoes. I left mine at my mum's house. There were kind of chunky and squeezed the front of my very flat feet.

I get my flat feet from my mum, though mine are way flatter than hers. I can't remember if my dad had flat feet.

I don't think the type of shoes you wear can shape your feet because I always buy shoes with an arch and wear orthotics but my feet are still as flat as ever. They grew really fast too. When I was 8 they were almost fully grown.


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09 Jan 2012, 6:18 am

I am not sure if its to do with race, or AS, but I have flat feet, my husband, 2 children (1 dx AS) other I feel has lots of AS traits and both of us with lots of traits but not dx.

My husband from egypt dark skin and I am from Ireland. :D


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09 Jan 2012, 6:25 am

My son, who has AS, has flat feet. I don't but I do have foot problems. I don't have a metatarsal arch, which is caused by Morton's Toe, where the second toe is longer than the big toe. This causes the front of my feet to be flat and makes my toes sort of splay out. Monkey feet.


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09 Jan 2012, 9:17 am

I have very high arches.



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09 Jan 2012, 9:31 am

ghouna wrote:
I will post a poll about it.
I dont believe there is a link, but on the "rdos" website they ask this question, so i thought maybe... lol


I wouldn't take rdos too seriously. Take one of the questions on the "aspie quiz" :

"Have you been fascinated about making traps?" 8O WTF?



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09 Jan 2012, 11:06 am

I have very flat feet and weird ankles on the inner side of my feet, it looks like I have 2. 8O
I don't think it has much of connection with aspergers but if I had to think of an obscure link it could be that both flat feet and aspergers are a genetic mutation. And someone who has pulled the genetic short straw might have a mixture of features.


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09 Jan 2012, 11:13 am

nemorosa wrote:
ghouna wrote:
I will post a poll about it.
I dont believe there is a link, but on the "rdos" website they ask this question, so i thought maybe... lol


I wouldn't take rdos too seriously. Take one of the questions on the "aspie quiz" :

"Have you been fascinated about making traps?" 8O WTF?

Here is his explanation for that.
http://blog.rdos.net/?p=61


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09 Jan 2012, 11:50 am

Aimless wrote:
nemorosa wrote:
ghouna wrote:
I will post a poll about it.
I dont believe there is a link, but on the "rdos" website they ask this question, so i thought maybe... lol


I wouldn't take rdos too seriously. Take one of the questions on the "aspie quiz" :

"Have you been fascinated about making traps?" 8O WTF?

Here is his explanation for that.
http://blog.rdos.net/?p=61


Yes I know exactly why it is included in the test, but it still raises the eyebrows. Personally I don't credit the Neanderthal hunting theory, but much more than that it's a damned odd question. How many people have you met with a fascination about making traps? It's bizarre.