Do you walk funny?

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^ XKCD hits close to home way too often.

I have been told many times that I walk funny. I hate it, because I don't know how to walk in a way that wouldn't be considered "funny".

I have seen myself walking on camera, and I realized that I do tend to walk like a penguin.

XKCD. thats why i walk funny in train stations and shopping centres.
i bob/bend my knees too much when i walk and my gait is awkward and clumsy at times. got mocked for it so much in highschool.

I think using the word ''everyone'' is a little harsh. I don't walk funny. I may sit funny, but not walk funny. I have a stooped neck but that's because of my build. But I don't walk funny otherwise.

I think it can depend on what clothes you're wearing. I saw a girl walk by me in the bus stop yesterday wearing high-heeled boots, and she was walking really differently and I couldn't help but notice.

I used to walk really hunched when I was at school, but that was because I wore a bag on my back, with heavy books inside, so it made me walk all hunched. Now I have learnt to walk with my shoulders up.

there should be a rule that anyone who generalizes should be given a warning and banned after repeated offenses.

It bothers me and I find it offensive. Please stop it.

One friend of mine who prides herself on being brutally honest has told me that I walk differently, that I seem to "have difficulty walking." I haven't noticed myself having difficulty walking, but that seems to be how it appears.
Another time, years back when I was doing my undergrad, I was doing an internship working with at-risk preschoolers, and I was given housing with another teacher in the school. She was talking to me about someone she knew who has cerebral palsy, and she asked me if I had cerebral palsy as a child.
Another time, when I was working toward my Master's degree, I went to the subway after work to catch a train home. I got to the subway platform just as the train was pulling out of the station. A classmate of mine I'd had conversations with before had also just arrived on the platform started a conversation with me. I mentioned to her that I frequently seem to arrive on the platform just as the train is pulling out of the station. We continued our conversation, and a couple of minutes later, she asked me seriously, "Do you have some kind of disability -- with walking?" I just looked at her, and didn't know what to say. She seemed to realize she had put her foot in her mouth, because she quickly switched to a lighter tone, and said, "I mean because you're always missing the train."
One guy I went out with a number of years ago told me that I walk like I have weights on my ankles. Another time when I was out walking, a complete stranger told me to pick up my feet. Another time, a complete stranger told me to walk straight. People often seem to walk past me on the sidewalk.
I have a downstairs neighbor who's forever complaining about how much noise I make walking around my apartment. I stopped wearing shoes in my apartment, and started simply walking around the place barefoot. She still complains. She has said that when I walk around my apartment, it sounds like a big horse is walking. She remarked that I'm a petite woman, and she doesn't know how on earth I make such noise walking around my apartment. She claims that I must be doing it on purpose (I'm not) and has threatened to take me to court for harassment. I have throw rugs strategically placed all around my apartment. I can't move all my furniture (I live alone, and I have very low upper body strength) and have some stranger come to my home to install wall to wall carpeting, so there's really nothing else I can do about that situation, except hope she doesn't make good on her threats.
In other words, yes, I definitely walk funny.

lol. Sometimes I can't resist doing my fist clenching and teeth grinding stim while walking down the road and one day I was walking towards a man, I was kinda looking down so I could only see the lower half of his body so I took a quick glance up to see his face and he jumped back and put his hands up the way people do when they're saying they don't want to fight. I wasn't in a violent mood at all, I was just happily stimming away. I can see how me clenching my fists and grinding my teeth combined with my penguin on steroids walk might make me look angry and violent though I suppose.

Something weird that happened is my younger brother started walking oddly like me too. Hes only 2 years younger than me and he probably looked up to me when we were teenagers since I had a reputation for fighting and stuff like that so I felt bad that he emulated something that was completely unintentional on my part. If I coulda walked normally I would have, I wasn't walking abnormally on purpose.

I went to an osteopath a few years ago and she said the muscles in my right leg are locked up. I never had any leg injuries I don't know how the hell that happened. Maybe thats why I have a strange gait, maybe my muscles locked up because I have a strange gait, I don't know.

Yes I do, My running is worse, like a big clumsy chicken.

SkipNip Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 12:07 am Post subject: Re: Do you walk funny?

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Dae wrote:
I've got an 'about-to-kick-your-*ss' walk when I wear my lightweight, combat-like black 'boots' (at least, that's the facial reaction I see on others' faces while I'm approaching them...usually have to give some 'soft' verbals for them to understand I'm not looking for a fight).

lol. Sometimes I can't resist doing my fist clenching and teeth grinding stim while walking down the road and one day I was walking towards a man, I was kinda looking down so I could only see the lower half of his body so I took a quick glance up to see his face and he jumped back and put his hands up the way people do when they're saying they don't want to fight. I wasn't in a violent mood at all, I was just happily stimming away. I can see how me clenching my fists and grinding my teeth combined with my penguin on steroids walk might make me look angry and violent though I suppose.
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Also lol...I'll have to check myself next time -- see if I'm clenching my jaw or such.

Yeah, I walk funny...I've been told that quite a few times. My own mother used to call me "graceful Gertie" and the Polish word for "cow" because of my clumsiness.



~Kate

Yes I walk like a bit of a spaz, and I always bump into people and things.

I tend to walk fast. People have told me I walk like I am angry. If I don't walk fast, I tend to stagger and lose balance. I run into things a lot, either way.

I have terrible posture. I try to hold myself up but it feels like hard work. After going to a chiropractor and seeing x-rays of my spine, I realized I can't help it. I have scoliosis and my neck is way out of alignment.

I used to get laughed at, when I was at school, because of the way I walk (among other things). Apparently I walk like a duck. Several times as an adult people have asked how I injured myself and I've told them it's just the way I walk. Then they've laughed, as if they thought I was kidding.

My daughter has a gangly bouncy walk.

Not anymore.