Pigeon Toe'd

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I've read about walking on your toes but does anyone know if being pigeon toe'd is a sign?

When I was really young I remember getting physio for turning my feet inwards. I'm not aware I ever walked on my toes.

No idea if it's an autism thing or not, but I did that too! The doctors at one point thought Imight need leg braces.

mine have always been weird assed things,one of them is acutely turned in,the other is acutely turned out-was forced to have special braces by the hospital but always refused to wear them as it felt very confusing and bad as to why feet werent able to be in the same position.
theres nothing wrong with looking like a deformed pigeon,just as long as am able to crap everywhere,puff chest out like they do and fight over territory.

I would imagine the rate of pigeon toe'dness is the same in NTs and non-typicals alike.

That being said, my daughter was so pigeon toe'd that it required years of physical therapy. She used to fall all the time because of it. She still toe walks on occasion, but the in-toeing is gone.

I'm very pigeon toe'd and the doctors said that it was because the ligaments in my legs are loose. It causes pain in my knees and hips. I'm also a toe walker but I don't see a connection between being pigeon toe'd and being on the spectrum. A lot of neurotypicals are pigeon toe'd as well.

Thanks for the replies. I had been reading a couple of online articles earlier and one or two people had suggested there was a link but I wasn't sure if that was in fact likely.

i am walking feet turned out and i often walk tip-toe but people dislike it genuinely.
I also "walk without sound", which disturbes people genuinely, as I "just show up" and they did not realize me coming into a room.
So I did ask what I had to do as I do not know how to produce sound by just walking.
Someone said whistling, but I do not feel like whistling in general.
In fact, I cannot even really do it.

What's interesting is that autistic people are said to have "strange gaits" but noone really says exactly what is different about it, and in my experience we move in all kinds of different ways. I have a theory that maybe moving in the world of NTs is so uncomfortable for us sometimes that we have to adapt, but we all develop individualized coping strategies that manifest in a variety of "strange gaits."