Looking on the ground while walking.

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There are numerous reasons for autistics to look to the ground. these are the ones that fit me:

1. Not wanting to meet people's eyes
2. The tiles! There are patterns in them, I tell you! ...What do you mean you don't care?
3. Fear of slipping

I am seriously afraid of slipping and falling and dying, and I am paranoid that the ground is wet. I freeze up whenever I'm about to walk on ice.

I know, the pun burns, but that sounds like a personal problem to me.

Yeah, I do this. (And I've also been lucky enough to find $20 and $50 bills everyone else passes by!)

When I was a kid I always looked at the ground. Once I walked right into some sort of metal pipe protruding from a building and hit my head on it. People used to tell me to look up so now I do for the most part.

Now that I think about it, I seem to spend a fair bit of time looking downwards when I'm walking. Not all the time, but I'd say a little more than half.

I have looked down for as long as I can remember. I just do it naturally, which some have interpreted to mean that I lack confidence. I still am aware of where I am, how far I have gone.

MrLoony: All those reasons are good. You should live here. We have ice or hard-stomped snow(as slippery as ice) about 5 months a year. More in the northern part. I fall every winter. Words cannot describe how much I hate having to go out and walk the slippery roads.

Yes.

Yes, I've done this and still do it to this very day yet, I'm aware of it now more than when I was younger so, I do my best to look upwards and what's in front of me so, not to get into embarrassing scenario as such..

This is starting to look more and more like a general rule for aspies. I wish mikehart18 had made this a poll, but he didn't, so I will create one, referencing this topic.

I just returned from a walk where it was very noticeable I get distracted and off-balance when I look up.

While crossing the road, I got distracted when I saw a child with the most beautiful coloured hair and ended up dawdling in the middle, not noticing where I was.

Before I arrived home, I got distracted by something again and looked up from the ground to my right ... and ended up veering from a straight line into someone.

...Yes .

I'll admit that often when I walk as previously in my way here to the library I'm at, yes I tended to look down but, that is cause at times I suppose part of me would rather look down than up who knows why I'm very quirky..

I try to work on getting better at it... can't get rid of it completely. I usually do it the most when I'm outside having a smoke,, and get lost in a train of [analyzing] thoughts

Always did this, especially as a child.

I still did, well into adulthood. I used to pick up paperclips I'd find on the ground at campus, until I had a collection that amounted to several dozen not including those I gave away to other people or handed in with my assignments.

I don't do this quite as much now that I've gained a bit of weight and I feel self-conscious if I realise I am not standing up straight. As a birthday present one of my friends gave me a box of paperclips, I suspect partially as a disincentive to keep looking for them and picking them up off the ground.