Are you a toe-walker?

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Really? Wow. I do that too! I had no idea... Kewl.

I used to walk on my toes as a kid. I remember one day my dad told me to stop walking on my toes and I had no idea what he was talking about! I thought I walked normally! I think I still do it now. I also drag my hands on railings and also gates with vertical bars in them.

I don't think I do, but others I know tend to think so. I drag my feet sometimes too. I have a relative who is just the opposite and walks on the back of the feet or the heels and you can hear her from a great distance the way her feet stomp the ground from walking this way.

Yes, I do that as well. I don't always walk on my toes, though, just some of the time. I also shuffle my feet quite a bit. I have a hard time walking "normally."

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I used to have issues with toe walking. When I was preschool I had physiotherapy and occupational therapy to deal with it.
I always drag my hands along walls, railings etc.
I am very unsteady on stairs- I need the railing there to know where my feet are. This creates problems at my university in dry weather, because all of the stair railings there are made of metal, and I am REALLY prone to getting zapped by static electricity, so I have to either get zapped or feel like I'm going to fall down the stairs.

Nope I'm as flat-footed as they come!

I'm also a "toe walker" and I tend walk "crooked" as well. I keep trying to walk the "normal" way but I can never get it right. People think I'm limping.

Sorry to go off-topic, but I love your Keen avatar Comkeen, I've never met another Keen fan.

Isn't that the only way to use stairs? At least, if you want to go decently quickly

My son has always been a toe-walker. He was also is on his toes when he is just standing around.
He doesn't do it all the time now he seems to be "growing out of it" or something. My husband used to always say "Stand on your feet".

When I was in Kindergarten or 1st grade I got my arm stuck between the railing and the wall at school because I did steps on my toes and I lost my balance going down. I didn't want to tell anyone so I just stayed there until an adult noticed and it took them forever to get my arm out. Since then I don't touch railings on stairs.

I walk toe first, rather than heal first when indoors, I have had comments from people I have lived with the I walk quietly, I wonder if it's because I dislike the noise of heels on wooden floors and how it echoes inside?

I used to walk on my toes all the time as a kid. I dragged my hand off railings and walls too, didn't know the two were linked. I don't do it so much anymore, only when I'm in bare feet, which isn't too often.

A couple of days ago I was waiting for my train and there was some guy over the other side of the platform walking on his toes. I kinda wondered to myself would he be an aspie... or was there just something up with his feet. He had a kinda of a lost look about him as well. I have a bit of an obsession with wondering if people are aspies or not, I've never spoken to anyone like me in real life. I kinda think it'd be nice.

I walk on my toes a bit, but not enough to annoy me... I also like to stand using the sides of my feet.

BTW I loved Commander Keen as a kid, it was one of the games installed on the first computer I bought (second hand) and I played that game through at least 10 or 20 times, I can still remember the ice level on commander keen 3d, it rocked...

It's funny that this topic was brought up just now. Yesterday, I was walking to the break room which is on the other side of our big office building. As I was walking....in heels on top of that, I started walking on my toes. It took me a few seconds to notice and I was like, "what the..?", recognizing it as one of the characteristics of autistic behavior. I guess I've done it before but never noticed until I read about it as a trait.

I was just thinking the same thing. Most people walk up and down stairs using their toes. I'm a toewalker too, everywhere I go. People make fun of me cause of the way I'm always bobbing up and down when I walk, heh.