Difficulty with Stairs/Escalators

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I'm clumsy going down stairs. I fell and sprained my ankle once. I'm always scared I'll hurt myself worse.

I had a hard time with escalators too up until my teens. I avoided them if I could. Stairs are easier, but sometimes when I'm walking down them I loose touch with where my foot is in relation with the stair. I've stumbled a few times, but thankfully not fallen.

I always chalked it up to my clumsiness with my hatred for escalators. I also sort of get wobbly on them. I also hate those glass rotating doors that some buildings use as a front door. I am always afraid to get my leg stuck in one of those.

i was afraid of e-stairs when i was a teenage.. i dont like e stairs when they stop working

I got dragged out to a department store today. Which is the first thing I can't stand, but I did need a new suit pretty badly, and unfortunately even though I live by myself, my mom has figured out I'm like my dad in that I won't go clothes shopping unless somebody makes me.

And of course that means escalators. Today I was so hesitant (ESPECIALLY after twisting my ankle earlier this week--I darned well have an excuse!) that she actually noticed and had to tease me about it!

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Official diagnosis: ADHD, synesthesia. Aspie quiz result (unofficial test): Like Frodo--I'm a halfling? 110/200 NT, 109/200 Aspie.

I searched out this topic as I was going to start a post of my own to ask - stepping onto an escalator that is going down is the worst. People laugh at me and think I am scared because I really have to hang on and it takes a lot of effort. I am not scared, I just have so much trouble coordinating my foot with the step. I have a question about elevators I am going to look up now or post a new question if I don't find it.

I never had that issue because escalators were my main special interest from age 7-12. My crazy obsessions have SOME benefit at least!

I really hate when going up the stairs in the dark and I take the last step but im already at the top of the stairs.

I had significant difficulty with both when I was a child. I remember I used to have a fear of escalators after having a bad experience on one (I seem to remember getting trapped at the end of one in a clothes shop). Ever since that happened I always used to use the stairs when shopping with my parents.

I also seem to remember falling down the stairs a lot when I was younger. Surprised I didn't break anything!

I have trouble with going down the stairs a lot. I can’t go down them without going backwards (holding banister) or tightly gripping and going down sideways. For escalators, I hyperfocus on the mechanics of it and find sliding onto it is easier for me. it’s like you have to time for when to get on

The skyscraper I used to work in had a stairwell with vertical poles on each landing. The tread width/height ratio was awkward for my height and I developed a method of going halfway down the first flight, then launching towards the pole and swinging to change direction to step briefly in the middle of the next flight and repeat. I could descend 20 floors in under 2 minutes. That was faster than the lift.
I'm lucky I never met anyone in the stairwell.

^^ I can imagine that, you described it well. It must have been fun swinging from floor to floor like that.

I have no depth perception so stairs can make me look awkward, especially if they're uneven or have patterns on them. Once at a train station I misjudged the bottom steps because I wasn't looking. I fell down the last two steps, scraping my knee and hurting my hand. People there just laughed, no one asked if I was ok. I was pretty miffed by that.

I don't have a problem with escalators, as long as I watch where I put my feet.

Yeah, I don't really struggle with them, but they do feel uncomfortable in a sense. The way my body moves when I step down or up some stairs doesn't feel natural to me, along with the fact that my legs feel weak when I have to walk like such..I hold onto the handrail with my life..