how do you hold your self when you walk?

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I remember when I used to work with mostly Mexican coworkers. They've managed to give every other word in the Spanish lexicon some sexual meaning. Everything we would say to each other invariably had some juvenile sexual connotation to it. It was so funny, and I managed to learn so much Spanish I became fluent. Ahhh, good times...

I look at the ground walk quite fast and always have my earphones in, everything is way to loud otherwise! I have my heads in my pockets or holding onto my backpack straps, usually switching between the two. If I don't have a bag on I try to be holding something otherwise I dont know what to do with my hands
I also watch the lines on the ground when I'm walking.... Recently this caused me to walk straight into a signpost outside my uni

I also look at the ground. I find looking at the world around - especially at a crowd of people moving every which way through a public place - is too much detail. I want to look at something plain, simple, unchanging - so the ground works. I will look up very briefly to check that nothing is coming towards me on a collision path.

Often, when I am walking around inside a house or building, I will have my arms pulled up - my forearms will be level or even raised, rather than hanging down, and my hands will be almost touching in front of my chest. Sometimes I will walk with one arm up like this, and the other hanging down.

I tend to walk very fast - partly because I used to walk with my taller, eldest brother and had to walk fast to keep up, partly because I walk regularly for exercise and do that quickly for health reasons, partly because I feel overloaded walking through public places, so I want to get out of there as quickly as possible.

When I read this I thought of the hordes of wannabe 'gangstas' who hold their nuts as they walk.

Tee hee. I find it funny that the majority of them also wear (presumably non-functioning) belts.

Baggy pants originated in American prisons as a signal to tell the inmates who was 'available for service' as it were, and misinformed aspiring thugs took it and ran with it, most figuratively

If I don't have something in my hands when walking I tend to flap or 'threading in the light bulb'. Otherwise I hold the hem of my shirt or hook my fingers through the belt loops

That sounds like a prison term for 'services'.

Never been, so how do you know? TA-dum-PIIING

I have a Beethovenian gait, that is, I walk with my head bowed a little with my arms behind my back.

I almost always walk looking down. I don't know if anything else I do is odd, but I know that I don't like looking straight ahead.

My first reaction was to respond "How can anyone carry themselves, let alone while they're walking?"

My second reaction was: Without shoes I tend to walk on the balls of my feet. I often hold my forearms up, at about a 45-90 degree angle to the ground. With shoes, I tend to walk heel-first because it's difficult to do the toe-walking thing, and because I can tolerate my shoes better than I can most floors.

According to others my walking looks relaxed and leisurely. My feet turn out a bit and my hips push forward with each step and kinda wobble and sway a bit. My arms are relaxed but always ready to pick up my long skirt. I can't actually walk fast but I can run very fast. I can't remember how I walked before puberty (there was probably not much hip swaying). In my high school years it was very popular for teens to practice walking like fashion models. Our school actually had a small fashion modeling club and I learned some tricks. I'm sure it's partially genetic, though. My dad (aspie) walks leisurely, too, and I haven't even got his legs.

*Oh my sons walk on their toes all the time, plus they wave their arms around a lot. They have more motor issues than I had though so some of the stims are much harder to control.

I walk normal really, with my shoulders back and I sometimes look at the ground and sometimes look up (I see other people doing this a lot when they're walking so I'm just kind of copying what they do. And I walk with my hands by my sides but moving, you know, like how most people walk.

But, according to the unexplainably critical/humiliating stares I get, I walk with my arms spazzing out and I jump around and raise my legs in a freaky way.

I don't think an Aspie can duplicate the NT style of walking, especially the arm-swinging part of it. I tried it before (in private, of course) and could never coordinate the arm swings with my legs while keeping my head up. It felt so unnatural.

I think some swing their arms.

I tried to imitate arm swinging, but I hate how it feels, and I'm not sure it comes off naturally.

I've never met an Aspie that swings their arms, but then again, I've met so few. I know if I tried to do it in public, I'd get a lot of odd stares, which would be quite embarrassing.