Is anyone else's Aspie child flat footed?

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Was quite a revelation to me, I knew he had trouble with running, jumping etc because he has dyspraxia but we joined him up at the Gym last week and his instructor said he has never seen such flat feet! It's not a hereditary thing, just curious to know if anyone else's child has flat feet.

honestly, i haven't checked......

No neither did I Ster!! He's nearly 16 and the Gym Instructor looked at me in absolute amazement when I said I'd never noticed!

who would think to check???......your pediatrician, i suppose........my son had to wear foot braces at night when he was around 1 year old. doc said his feet turned in & would cause him to have an awful time walking, running

My sister had to wear the same foot braces ster mentions. I personally have "easily collapsable arches"- if I go without arch support for too long it hurts for a while and then eventually my feet are pretty flat. This was more of an issue when I was a child than now that I'm in my 20s.

My feet are ridiculously, painfully wide. Sometimes I feel like I could fit an extra toe on there. Forget about cute shoes... but at least I'm a great swimmer, what with these paddles!

I *am* the Aspie child, but I have very high arches. So, just the opposite.

I'm an aspie with arches, my brothers are not aspies with flat feet, my ds is aspie w/ flat feet.

Maby aspies have unusual gaits, so that could contribute the the flattening of feet over time.

My AS daughter toe walks constantly and we've got to get special inserts for her shoes to mimic the proprioceptive input of toe walking. She is only 3.5yo and has already damaged her muscles, we hope the stretches every 2 hours will reverse the damage. Thankfully she hadn't damaged the bones in her ankles.

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Alright, flat feet: AS DH has them, AS father has them, AS father-in-law has them, My AS little brother has them. But ALL the girls in my family- 2 sisters, mom, mom-in-law, sis-in-law, aunts, and daughter have high arches and most of us have plantar fasciitis becasue of it. It hurts like Hell!

I ONLY wear Birkenstocks these days. Sandals whenever possible, and clogs in the colder months. They have "cured" my feet of massive problems that even custom orthotic insoles from a podiatrist could not. I have been nearly pain-free with my feet for over a year now. At one point it was so bad that I ws using a cane to help me walk at home. I had to rent a wheelchair when we went to Disneyland 18 months ago after the first day(in my custom orthotic insoled and podiatrist recommended shoes). I was in so much pain it was unbelievable.

At one point, I got similar inserts. My mother doesn't recall why though, and I don't either. BTW I don't have flat feet.

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same here

My brother and I both have flat feet but we have never required any special equipment. Quite the opposite, we were told to wear shoes as little as possible. I do anyway because it's just more comfortable that way, and my son does now because otherwise he'd get dirty footprints on my furniture.

When my son was young he was very slow to walk (15 months) but this may have been because of low muscle tone, not flat footedness.

The only really bad thing that ever happened to me because of my flat feet is when I did cross country running in high school, I got shin splints really bad. I still can't run anymore because they'll start up again if I do.

I'm an Aspie and I am flat footed.

My son looks like he has flat feet when he is standing, but when he lifts his foot up, he does have a good arch. He had to have inserts when he was a toddler because he didn't like walking otherwise (needed the input).