AS and strange walks.

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I have always had a strange walk which has been a huge bullying issue for me. I tried to fix it and I did for a bit. I practised in front of a mirror for ages when I was a teenager trying to get a better walk but whenever I stopped trying I would go back to just walking the same way I did before. I have fairly bad posture and my arms tend to swing a lot when I walk because they hang very low on my shoulders and I have this tenancy to swing side to side as I walk as though I'm waddling. Its just the natural way I walk for some reason and I still try to improve. I finally got a decent walk and I was very tense as I was doing it but people finally started leaving me alone until my back started to hurt doing it then I stopped.

I always thought that it was because I have always been depressed and never really had any kind of reason to walk happily with my head high and maybe my mood has affected my walk somehow, but recently I heard that this could be attributed to AS.

Is this true?

Does anybody here have a funny walk due to AS or is it not AS and its something else?

I have always hunched, and walked on my tiptoes. I'm trying really hard to stop; especially the hunching. A lot of people on the spectrum have this sort of issue.

Not to be insensitive or anything, but am I the only one who thought of the old Monty Python "Ministry Of Silly Walks" skit when I saw this?

More on topic, I've never noticed an odd walk but I do have a habit of standing weird. Sometimes, I shift my weight to my left leg when I'm not consciously thinking about standing straight.

Nope, I thought of it immediately and watched it whilst writing it lol.

I love that skit, the only bright side about this is that its not quite that extreme. I wander if there was a society of silly walks then how many members would have AS.

lol i just watched it for the first time

i think i walk kinda, bouncy. and wonkily. and awkwardly.

i have managed to 'fix' my walk to look normal-ish, but it still is awkward; i dont to the standard footroll, but i did trainsform my tiptoe into a 'flat foot at once' kind of landing, although i still go tiptoe if there is any kind of stair steps.
i also barely use my knees while walking, giving me a stilted gait, which also causes a kind of hip-swing simular to what the media portray as 'sensual' for women to do; though luckily not that bad that it's really visible to others, unless they actively try and see it.

Yes especially when I was younger. I had a cousin help me with my "stride" when I was about 13 to make me more attractive to the girls she really does not know how much that helped in school. But when I am very tired the "odd" stride returns.

I don't know, really. When I was a kid I was teased for walking "like a robot," whatever that meant. I think it was because I didn't swing my arms. For I while I tried purposely swinging my arms, but then I decided it was silly to force myself to do something that just isn't natural. It's really hard to walk with my head up though. I always end up tripping over things.

When kids have developmental issues and autism is suspected, one of the things they look for is unusual gait in general, and toe walking specifically. Doctors actually write 'toe walker' on kids' medical records. So yes, your odd way of walking probably is related to your diagnosis.

When I was a teenager I was teased and called 'Hoppy' for the way I walked. Until I was 13, I didn't realise there was anything unusual about the way I walked. Once it was drawn to my attention I analysed it and compared with other people and realised that yes, I did walk rather oddly. I practiced for years and now look more normal but it still gets mentioned to me every so often.

Does anyone else here consciously think about how to walk all the time they're doing it?

I used to know an aspie boy at school who had the craziest walk. It was like a cross between a drunk chicken, a dinosaur and not-quite-bipedal-yet caveman.

I just walk really fast and don't move my shoulders enough at times.