Tip-Toeing

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I tip-toe at home, but it's not an AS thing. It's mostly my courteous response to my family who used to stomp around the house very noisily. I tip-toe because its quieter. Its also a part OCD thing of not wanting to get my feet dirty. Sometimes I walk with my feet curled in because of that too.

My mom used to do it and she is NT because her father slept in the basement and as a child she had to walk on her toes so she wouldn't make too much noise.

On days where I'm really reveling in my madness I don't just tiptoe but I lean hunched over forward and hold my arms up in strange way like a velociraptor. On said days I react really really fast and I have to run around and do things to try and come down. Oddly enough it's probably the reason I can't get a girlfriend but simultaneously really need one.

I've toe-walked . . .or rather ball-walked all my life. I remember at one point when I was in elementary school the coach of the local Highland dance troupe was all oer me to join up once she noticed how naturally I move around on them By that point, I'd suffered too much teasing about growing up to be a ballerina to go within half a mile of a dance class though. Too bad, maybe I could've been great.

I'm 24 and now and am still at it. I've never really seen any point of stopping what feels natural to me. I virtual never walk flat footed without shoes on, and even shod I tend to do it a lot. Friends and family tell me they can see me coming blocks away on the street on account of my gait.

As for people thinking it slows one down or is a strain, think again. I've outpaced pretty much everyone I've ever walked with, and can hike up a mountain like nothing. Going downhill ends up being a little more tentative than for most, though. I does definitely have it's affects on the body though. My calves bulge out like Popeye's arms despite otherwise being quite lanky, and the old Achilles tendon is ridiculously taught and thick. I actually have a terrible of fear of snapping it somehow, and try and take the time to stretch it whenever I can.

And as for the theory that it's a 'stim' thing, I'm pretty dubious about that. I'm pretty aware of what my stims are (chewing, mainly), and I definitely don't get the ummmm . . . satisfaction(?) of a stim from walking on my toes. I just feels like the way a very important action ought to be done.

Interesting.

One of the diagnostic tests for paediatric autism is gait.

Autistic babies crawl very asymmetrically.

I have always toe-walked. I toe-walk 100% of the time while barefoot. I also toe-walk half of the time while wearing certain types of shoes; I'll switch back and forth (unconsciously) between toe-walking and normal walking. As others have said, it has never slowed me down. In fact, I even run on my toes most of the time. I think that it is a stim for me. I have recently noticed that I tend to toe-walk (in shoes) more when I'm nervous. I think it's a sensory thing for me, especially when my shoes get wet. I absolutely abhor getting wet, and when my tennis shoes get wet after walking in dew-ridden grass or something, toe-walking lessens the amount of wetness that I feel on my feet. Thus, I don't have to have my heel touch my wet shoe.
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This is pretty funny because I tend to stomp really loud for some reason... don't know why...

Hehe. This praying mantis pose, wrists up by the chest, hands limp, I do that. So so most of the males in the paternal line, actually. Once my aunt, my sister-in-law and my grandmother were all laughing together about it, saying they could always tell when their husbands were not feeling well, because he'd walk around like that.



Yeah. If I have to go downhill on a path, I'm slower. If there is no path, I'll zig-zag down, half jumping.

I try to stretch the tendon, too, but of course my foot won't bend toes-up as far as most people's. And my footprint, even if I stand flat-footed so as to show a heel mark, is in two peices, 'cause the arch barely touches the ground.

It is not a stim unless I misunderstand what a stim is. I would not be aware that I'm doing it at all if people didn't remark about it.

I enjoy walking on my toes. I always do it going up or down stairs, especially when I'm trying to move quickly. You seem to be able to control the impact easier, can move more quietly, and less of the foot is touching the floor/ground.

As for a stim... I think I used to use it as one. For some reason the slight stretch, use of different muscles, and overall feeling always felt neat. Especially when I'm slightly rolling on the balls of my feet. (Just slightly, not when walking, when I'm just standing there looking at something.)

I have always had people comment on the way I walk, however it could have something to do also with my interesting knees, the way I look at the ground when I walk, and the way my feet swing out. *Shrug* I can get from one place to another, as long as I'm not hurting anyone, how I do it is no one's concern.

I am a life-long toe-walker...not 100% of the time, but alot of the time....it falls in with sorta sensory integration issues I have...

People have always commented on my walk, said I seemed purposeful and like I was going somewhere and knew where I was going. Walking on my toes does not slow me down, in fact people have a hard time keeping up with me. I have always walked toe heel, toe heel, couldn't imagine walking any other way. Didn't think about toe-walking though until I saw it on a AS quiz, asked my mom and she said I've always done that, always had a very distinct form of walking