Do you have flat feet?

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I have freakishly huge duck/hobbit feet, but they are not flat. Just very wide: I can only use "rounded" shoes; if I try to wear leaner ones, the atrict will hurt like hell.

I have low arches, but my feet aren't flat.

Nope. I have super wide feet with a high arch. My right foot has a really crooked toe that's bent up and overlaps the other. I also have really thick calloused skin on the bottom of my feet.

No flat feet. My arches are not symmetrical. One arch is slightly higher than the other. So my walking is a bit clumsy.

My feet are somewhat flat, and quite wide. If I'm not going outdoors, I usually go without shoes, just my socks. Shoes get uncomfortable to me after a few hours, and it's not easy to find shoes that are wide enough.

my feet are flatter then average, but still curved, although they are quite lean; most shoes are way too wide for me, and they also have either too high or too low arch-curves...

my toes also have big gaps in between them, and i'm able to move each toe individually; i can pick up pens and pencils from the floor with my feet; both clamped to the bottom of my feet, or grabbed in between the toes, as it they were fingers

I have the complete opposite of flat feet. I have really high arches and have problems getting shoes to fit. I can't wear ballet pumps, as I walk out of them, and can't get my feet into some boots. My joints are really inflexible. Even though I've danced all my life, I have to work at it to keep my joints even reasonably mobile. I don't have a diagnosis, but my daughter almost has one and she's the same as me.

(Marshall, I have the same problem with hard skin. It's caused by having to put all your weight on a small surface area of your feet. I've tried arched insoles, but they were torture.)

Flat feet are often associated with hypermobility, which is often associated with ASDs, so that's possibly where the connection is in some cases. My husband (who doesn't have a diagnosis either, but has a lot of traits associated with ASDs) is very bendy, with stretchy skin (not severe), his feet are weirdly shaped, but not flat. He's not disabled by hypermobility, but if family history is anything to go by, he has to take care of his hips. I don't think he has any physical condition to speak of just now.

I know you cannot tell if someone is Autistic from their physical build, but I know that the thread is saying that.

I don't know why but seeing threads saying things like ''do Aspies have curved eyebrows?'', ''do Aspies have boney wrists?'', ''do Aspies have big hands?'', ''do Aspies have 32 teeth?'', ''do Aspies have long arms?'', and so in seem to disturb me, because I see these physical features equally in NTs too. I read somewhere that baby boys have slightly bigger heads than baby girls. And I've actually seen different people's feet in my life and funnily enough it looks like everyone's feet are different to one another's. Everybody are all different shapes and sizes, and it's got nothing to do with whether you've got Autism or not.

I know you don't like the idea, but it's a well documented fact that there are some conditions which come along with autism, in more frequency than they do in the general population. You'll find many studies showing the correlation. Flat feet may well be one of those things. Flat feet are frequently due to hypermobility and this is much more common among people with ASDs than it is in the general population (in other words, it's a co-morbid condition). I don't know why these things tend to exist alongside autism, although I presume somebody is researching it at the moment. Myself and my daughter don't have flat feet or hypermobility, but I can see the correlation with ASDs nonetheless.