Trouble walking?

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Ungainly walk topic

My walking gait is so ungainly that I have severe bunions, hammer toes and general foot structure collapse. Interestingly, my dad was the same, and his feet were similar looking to mine.

I walk with both my feet out, but the right foot more further out than the left foot. This is because I've twisted my right ankle three times before and I'm scared I'll do it again, 'cos it's bloody painful when I did!
But now I've been walking like that for so long that I've deformed my own leg, and every time I point my right foot forward, my knee then slightly faces the left a little bit. I hate that, and I don't know what to do to get it back to normal.

I used to walk like a hunchback, but i recently stopped doing that and i can walk with my back straight now.

I do walk strange, I sort of limp, mainly because I have problems with my knees. My grandmother says it might be arthritis. O.o I think maybe I've just taken one too many paintballs to the knees. I always got shot there hehe.

I have a strange gait and do not walk very well though I was an early walker but I guess that's because of my dyspraxia.

I tend to trip on my own feet and kick one ankle or knee with the other. The stangest thing about the way I walk is that my upper body is slightly bend (but rigid, sometimes I look like C3PO) and I am a toewalker when I have to walk upstair (I did not know it was strange until I turned 15 and someone told me, I used to think everyone did that.)

I have problems with telling how far away objects are; I always walk into things because I just don't realise that they are that close to me. Since realising that, I get pretty anxious about crossing roads and have a tendency to wait extra long until I'm sure that it's safe. I get anxious about looking like an idiot for that too though :S but I guess I would rather look like an idiot than end up disabled because I got hit by a car. There are some really difficult roads for me to cross on my way to and from school each day, it's such a pain! But in general, I walk into things like the sides of desks etc, and at school when the corridor is packed with people walking in all different directions I always tend to squeeze myself as far to the right or left of the corridor as possible, but I nearly always end up bashing myself into the wall because I've misjudged it! It's a painful habit.

Right now it is snowy/icy over here and it fills me with dread and anxiety. I slipped twice on my way to school this morning, and three times on the way back. If it's even more icy tomorrow I am going to stay home. I really cannot face the anxiety of the whole process, and it takes me extra long too because I walk so slowly. I look like an idiot too and get paranoid about people judging me for it. Nobody seems to really understand either, but I can't say I blame them. I've never met anyone as clumsy as myself!

Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention how I struggle to walk down steep hills/mountains and downstairs etc. I'm not really sure why this, but it's a huge inconvenience. People sometimes notice and make comments about it when I am walking down stairs. It makes me feel pretty self-concious. I read somebody else's post earlier who said that when they are walking they are not automatically doing so, they are thinking about putting one foot down and then the next etc; when I walk down stairs I feel this way

I am very pigeon-toed.

It doesn't feel like an automatic process to me, along with the arm swinging. Same feeling with running. However, it seems more automatic when I walk along side someone else, almost like I have an example of how to do it. My sister, who has aspergers has the same issue. We also forget to breathe quite often, especially in times of laser focus.

I stumble. I think my balance has become worse.

I have been told I have an odd, short gate. One of my co-workers at a job I had years ago said I looked like penguin walking. Very odd comment, but she seemed like nice lady with no malice that I could tell.

I stagger when I walk so I have to walk with my foot lined up with the edge of the sidewalk while keeping my head looking straight ahead or will stagger around like a drunk. My brother says that when some people walk behind me they look like they are getting their hands ready to catch incase I fall over. The funny thing is I rarely slip on the ice or snow.

I have an awkward gait and walk with a slight limp, I allways have as long as I can remember.
I was bullied at school because of it. I found that the more peolpe pointed it out the more I thought about it, and the worse it became.

for me there have been times when I've really struggled with walking, just like it has be such a conscious effort, I guess after overload. sometimes when I've ended up in hospital for different things including surgery I just had such a hard time being able to walk again afterwards like I had to learn all over again. weird.