what is the reason that we like walking on our toes?
For me, I think it's definitely a sensory thing. For one thing, toe-walking eliminates half of the foot from having to touch the ground, but the half that DOES touch the ground gets more pressure and feeling. And although I don't toe-walk in certain shoes, I ALWAYS toe-walk if my shoes get wet. (I also exclusively toe-walk when barefoot.) Being wet is practically my worst sensory issue, and toe-walking in wet shoes means that only half of my foot will have to endure wetness.
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This would not apply in every single case, perhaps, but probably in almost all. In short, toe walking would affect brain function and amplify a certain aspect of it. For one thing certain never currents or whatever you want ot call it go all the way down to the feet. You can do an experiment for yourself and see how it is an entriely different sensation when the weight is distributed on the heels and on the balls of the feet. You can learn a lot about yourself when you observe your own functioningm and many insights can occur when you think about it.
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Because it's fun, and I do it when I am bored.
I like to feel my muscles do different things than normal walking.
I like to stand on my toes too, and the sides of my feet, but not my heels, that feels like I am going to fall.
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I used to do it a lot when I was younger when walking up the stairs, I think to relieve the discomfort and tension I would feel in the back of my calves while doing it. I actually had an MRI done when I was in elementary school for it because my parents were told that it might be a spinal cord issue (something about the spinal cord fibers being pinched or something like that). Turned out to be negative, but I eventually self-corrected it after my parents called attention to it. I've known about its correlation with autism for awhile and it's always struck me as kind of an odd and random symptom...