tiptoe walking

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anyone else do this, i only do this with my shoes off and going up stairs, i think i may have short ligaments, i feel like im going to fall down the stairs without being on my tiptoes. it does make my gait look strange i look like im half bouncing as i walk like i have a springs in my feet, i also tend to look like my legs dont bend.

the whole effect ends up with me walking like a giraffe according to my friends.

I thought it was natural to walk on the ball of your feet going upstairs, but that's just me. I also do it going downstairs because I feel very nervous if any part of my foot is hanging over the edge of a step, as if I will fall because of it. If I don't do that, I walk with my feet pointing outward like Charlie Chaplin, so that the entire underside of my foot will always be in touch with the surface of the step. I also have to watch my feet when I walk down the stairs, I can't look straight ahead and it is mystifying to me how people can do that and not fall. Funny, I never thought about that until you brought it up. I guess that's another reason my husband says I walk funny.

Interesting, I thought I was the only one who did this.

My sister used to do that all the time as a kid. She still does it sometimes now if she hasn't been stretching her legs out well. Doctors have said it was caused due to low oxygen at birth and it somehow shortens the ligaments in babies' legs. Never bothered to look it up beyond that, but that's apparently the cause for her. If you do this all the time, ask your mother if there was anything during birth that resulted in lower oxygen levels for you for a few mins - ie umbilical cord wrapped around your neck or something. Seriously. It might be the explanation, and whoopee - not such a big deal in the least bit if all it's done is require you to have to do some stretching so you don't walk on your toes all the time.

My mother, who almost certainly is on the spectrum, does this. I think a big part of the reason is less foot in contact, less sensory overload.

I do the tiptoe thing on stairs as well, but mostly I tend to drag my feet. I have a very funny gait period, though.

I remember tiptoe walking a whole lot when I was younger. I still do it now too, whenever I walk up stairs, or if I'm sitting down. I hate having the soles of my feet touch the ground in both cases.

I thought everyone walked on their toes up staircases. I do it. So does my NT brother.

If I'm not wearing shoes then I walk on my toes, especially going up stairs (I don't dare do it going down because I would almost certainly wind up falling down the stairs). I do it so my foot doesn't really touch the ground.

On a side note, I also will press the balls of my feet into the floor while I'm sitting (barefoot or wearing shoes).

I always walk on my toes when barefoot, in socks, or in flat shoes. But almost all of my shoes are high heels, so it always duplicates the feeling of walking on my toes. In fact, people often ask me how I can always wear high heels and they don't seem to believe me when I tell them it's more comfortable for me because I prefer the feeling of walking on my toes.

I prefer to call it sneaking and consider it a hunter behavior. It saved my hide plenty of times

I walk on the balls of my feet in a "tiptoe" kind of way, but I wasn't aware of it until someone recently pointed it out -- actually TWO someones pointed it out on the same day. And they were completely unaware of the other's comments. Since then, I've asked others if I walk on my toes. They don't even have to think about it -- they immediately say "Yeah, you do actually." Mom said I did it when I was a little kid too. As far as climbing stairs, I seem to recall walking them on my toes, but I haven't paid attention to it recently. I'll have to be more observant.

I walk around the house in socks or bare feet on my toes. It feels natural to me to walk like this and I can move so much faster. It feels clumsy and unnatural walking on my whole foot, but I have trained myself to walk like this out in public.

I use to walk on my toes everywhere when I was a child and people would tell me I was walking like a fairy. Then I got to an age when it didn't look so cute anymore and I was told to "walk properly" so had to learn to walk using my whole foot. But I'm still a tiptoe walker in private!

I try not to walk on my toes since I don't believe it's considered normal. But sometimes I do it without realizing.