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[–] 121 points 1 week ago* (8 children)

A common quirk of autism is putting pressure on the fronts of your feet (though rarely as high as this) while walking.

I do it a bit, but the only sign that I am is that my shoes wear down on the front faster than other people, while the heel generally stays intact.

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  • [–] 110 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I really need Lemmy to stop pointing out things I didn’t notice I have been doing forever and then telling me it’s an autism thing.

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  • [–] 116 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Do you eat food... Cause its a known fact that 100 % of autistic people eat food!

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  • [–] 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    I know some who forget to do that

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  • [–] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Eat? Autism.

    Forget to eat? Also autism.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Depends. How are you eating? Are you meticulously separating your food and eating it in a particular order? Do you break apart your tator tots into tiny bits, or do you pull the chocolate chips out of your muffins to eat them separately? Maybe you eat all the green veggie straws, then all the yellows, then all the orange ones, never deviating from that pattern?

    It’s fascinating looking around the lunch room in a school for autistic children.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 week ago

    I think people like to take any symptom related to autism and just claim that anything similar is also a symptom. Like, "autistic people do X a lot so if you ever did X you're probably autistic". Not how it works.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    There can be a few reasons. Sensory, coordination, neurological... Usually it simply feels more natural.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    …pretending to have digitigrade legs…

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    to walk like animals who walk on their toes

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    I do not believe that is as relevant as you think it is.

    There is a certain overlap between autistic people and furries/therians, but that is very much not usually the reason for this behaviour.

    EDIT: usually

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I don’t walk like this, but it is more natural. We would walk like that barefoot. Heel first is a shoe thing

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    Man, even that was a sign!? Is everything I've ever done just textbook autism?

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  • [–] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    If you're as old as me the only thing books ever mentioned on [behavior now correlated with autism] is that some kids do it but they'll "grow out of it."

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)

    This is what the doctor said when my kid was newer to walking and, well, the kid did. I didn't do anything to intervene and, to the best of my knowledge, neither did my wife.

    edit: Add missing gerund.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago (1 child)

    That's awesome! Nobody should have to endure 10+ years of being called "twinkle toes" on the account of an unconscious behavior.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    Of course not! So long as it's not physically endangering them in any way (for example, if it damaged tendons; or I might discourage doing it on the stairs, though I don't think that ever came up) or otherwise causing them problems, then I want them to be who they are. That includes whatever manner is comfortable for their walking.

    If it had been, for some reason, necessary to push for it to change, the way to do that would be through whatever treatment was needed (presumably with at least the help of professionals), not through mockery.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I "grew out of it" when I got too fat to stay on the balls of my feet all the time. However I still do every so often; and when I sit, I often tuck my feet under the chair so that I'm resting on them.. so maybe not entirely grown out of it..

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago

    I do that, too, when I'm in a shared chair. I think it's because my feet don't reach the floor in chairs that aren't adjusted for my height. Also, I'm autistic, hyper flexible, and have poor proprioception, so sitting on my legs gives me good feedback on where my limbs are.

    My office chair is a kneeling chair, and I tend to sit with my feet where the knees should go. (I swap into office slippers, so it's not outside shoes on my chair.)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    Not necessarily a sign; just a common quirk to have with the condition.

    Not all toe-walking is related to autism: it can also be musculoskeletal or related to other psychological conditions; and at the same time, not all autistic people walk like this.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Do you have a source/name for that? I would love to read up on this

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    My shoes get worn down similarly because I have high arches and long ass toes, "tingers". The middle arch never touches the ground.

    Finding the right shoes suck ass. I'll get holes in the top and bottom of the front unless I have proper arch support.

    Plus side I'm very silent when I walk because there is less contact. So I've spent a lifetime scaring the shit out of people on accident.

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  • I do this but only when I'm wearing sandals or am barefoot, if I'm in my boots I walking notably more on my heel. Seriously I have to swap the padding on them every once in awhile because I bore a hole in the damned things. I think it's a balance thing.

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