Walking bend over (mostly watching feet)

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As the title said i've always walked bended over well last years i have been training to walk straight (altough im refalling a little bit)
It whas goddamn hard and no one ever understanded why i did it everyone tought i whas sad or just an idiot (to say it without bad words)
Mostly i watched at my feet, i also wonderd how your even able to walk so straight altough now i wonder why you could walk so low (as i did)
anyone els have this (well i shoulnd't ask this it feels so different that it deffinetly must have to do with autism)

Yes, I do the same. Or I did at least, since as you I tried to be more conscious about my posture. And I did some Yoga years ago, which helped a lot.
In addition I have a slightly strange walking style. When watching me from the side, I do something wrong with my legs. Can't tell for sure, what exactly. I think it's that I somehow more fall forward than really walking But that too disappeared mostly, when I started to walk more upright.

I'm not sure why I do/did this. Maybe it's just I'm born that way.
Maybe I took my parents to literal, when they told me to watch where I walk.
But most likely it's just to avoid eye contact by looking down on the street all the time.

Oh absolutely. I did that for most of my life. I make a concerted effort not to do it anymore...but then again I'm forty, so things have changed alot for me since I was younger.

But yes, I definately did that. All the time.

I look at my feet because if I don't I tend to trip over things. Actually, I seem to trip even when I do look.

I always look as if i'm looking for quarters. But that might have something to do with the fact that I am also quite tall. I also lift up my shoulders a little.

But I only do this walk when I am fairly relaxed. When stressed, I straighten my back, straighten my neck, look straight ahead, and my attention is focussed on how I walk, and what happens in front of me. In that "mode" if people don't move aside quickly enough, I will walk all over them.

I actually do have a lot of these shifts in posture depending on the emotional or mental state I am in.

I've always watched my feet. People complain about it. It never occurred to me it might have something to do with AS.

Yes I used to when I was a child. I was always the one who spotted money and other goodies on the ground

These days I suppose I look all over the place, depending on the environment. I guess I'm scanning for obstacles which life has taught me can be almost anywhere. In my experience the human race is mostly very poor at keeping gangways clear.

I wouldn't be able to walk in a straight line even if someone paid me .

Yeah, I did that as a kid all the time. Totally sensory overload if I had looked up while I went - I couldn't walk and take in and process the visual information at the same time.

This sensory problem solved itself throughout the years, I now can look up and walk at the same time like other people.

I have many childhood and young adult memories of adults taking hold of my shoulders and pulling them upward. (That's right, without first asking permission to touch me.) I have an adult memory of a teacher in beauty school telling me "Pick your head up, stop looking at the floor." Then after I made a conscious effort to pick my head up (at least in front of her), she said, "Look at you, you're so rigid. Slump a little, like the rest of us!" I said, "I did, you didn't like the way I slumped!" "How do you slump?" FLOP went my head, to look at the floor.

I walk looking down, but I don't bend over much. I just look down becuase I need to watch where my feet are going. I tend to trip over invisible potholes and blades of grass, so i see exactly where I put my foot.

I suppose subconsciously I probably do it to avoid eye contact, but consciously I do it to prevent myself from tripping over things as often.

I'm always looking at my feet, and I frequently bend to the left when I walk without realizing it. In any case I can't maintain a straight line.

I always walk looking down at my feet. If I didn't I'd be falling into holes and tripping over speed bumps in the grocery store parking lot. I've tried walking in the normal fashion but that way of walking makes me dizzy.

Yes. I walk like that, always have. Slumped, slightly hunched and looking down when I walk. I can stand straight and look forward if I consciously think about it, but, after only a few minutes I forget to stand straight and go right back to my usual posture and walk. I agree about finding a lot of change on the ground and also I spot a lot of nice bird feathers which I collect.