does anyone here have "low tone"

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just out of curiosity. Both of my boys have delayed motor development. My oldest (6)both fine and gross motor and my youngest (3) just gross motor (at this time, my oldest's fine motor was okay at this age, it wasn't until he got a year or so older that it sort of stalled). I hear of a lot of people posting that they have poor motor coordination but no one (that I know of) has said anything about being low tone. I have also heard it called "soft muscles." Both my children were late walkers and I was told that this is why. My youngest can't sit in a regular chair very long without falling out. We use a booster seat with him by the way

Also, does low tone go away or get better with age?

I have heard of this also -- a fanit memory comes to light about an family freind's kid .. I just can't fathom who ... no I got it it was at school

His whole family was very short and thin - jockey size... we as primary children were told to 'take care'around him beacuse of hi fragility. I dunno if it was soft muscles or lack of bone density ,,, but he did end up being the fastest long distance runner.... and yes he wanted to become a Jockey, but by the time he was old enough , he had out grown his parents - they must have fedd him too good! - His sister was the odd one in the family , being tall (yet still skinny) - but then again girls are always taller in that age group.

My son has low muscle tone in his arms and hands. Goodness, sometimes you'd think his wrists would snap they were so floppy! Typing will probably win out over writing with a pen or pencil. He has a lot of fine motor deficits but is fine with gross motor activities.

My gross motor-development is pretty good, where my fine motor-skills are terrible.

his gross motor (my oldest) has caught up with his age now, but his fine is still bad. His hands are SO WEAK. He can't button, snap, tie etc. I was told by OT that the low tone is why both my kids were such late walkers. I wondered if it was AS related or not.

i pretty much think i have deformed shoulders, i dont know why its not like my head is huge or anything. also my right arm is bigger than my left, but i think i know why.

I am not sure when I was younger what it was like,but I know at around 7? my muscle tone would be described as "tightly wound"....I loved climbing trees,jungle gym,bike riding,hiking up hills and piles of rocks.(yes,I was clumsy and often had bruises but they never really bothered me)Anything that involved "stretching".

I never could sit comfortably in chairs.(I still cant),it hurts my back.Most the time I prefer sitting crosslegged on the floor with furnitre as a back support.I use to sit in recliner chairs,with my back against the seat and my legs propped up on the back or arm rest.My parents always made fun of the "odd" positions I could get myself into,but it was comfortable to me.I still think my concentration and grades would have been better in school if I didnt have to sit in those stupid desks.I do have the flexibility of a lot of aspies but my muscles have always been tight and I was a very physical kid.

I have no muscle tone at all and I'm 27. If I stick some kind of weight in my arm and let it swing free, it'll go on forever like a pendulum. I was never able to build up any muscle mass at all despite trying for several years in the high school weight room

As a kid I couldn't do things like climb on the jungle gym or monkey bars. I could barely even climb a ladder. (It dosen't help that I get vertigo when I'm up high also)

I was also unable to throw or catch any kind of object. I was an object of derision at recess for everyone else outside, not that I ever did much anyways, I just usually sat against the wall of the building.

My hand writing was horrible, and resulted in many nightmarish situations involving teachers berating me.

I got shoved into a special ed gym class in junior high school becasue my parents were told I was going fail the regular gym classes at junior high school

Today I have horrible posture. I can't sit up straight and proper with out feeling uncomfortable.

All thanks to poor muscle tone.

I always seemed to be about 2 years behind in physical development over the rest of the kids in my school when it came to size and strength. I was always quite nimble, and still am, but just not very strong. This made me a target for bulleying, especially since my gross motor skills were, and still are terrible, resulting in me being bad at sports.

Today, I am still a small person, at only 32 years old, I only weight 135 pounds. For clothing, I must either buy kids clothes, or women's clothes (that look like men's) I am in the best of shape that I have been my entire life, and can run long distances, or bike long distances very well. It's a great escape for me too. My upper body, and likewise, my chest size is finally getting to that of an average male now. One of the remarkable things is that I can now do about 12 pull-ups. I remember in school, I couldn't do even one! It's sort of cool now because many of the people that were always better at physical stuff are now beginning to loose their strength with age, and my own is continuing to get better, and I am now finally surpassing them in many physical challenges.

Quite the contrary, my fine motor skills have always been excellent. I have been good with soldering tiny components in electronics, and working with my hands around my vehicles and such. This may even come from the fact that even to this day, I have a habit of holding things in my hand and twisting/rotating them, like a pen, screwdriver, or anthing really. If it's in my hands, I'm gonna roll it through my fingers!