I want to send this to my sister, whose children are clearly autistic (but she doesn't know yet?). Thing is, I won't, because she will just take them to a chiropractor. 🫠

Because I got yelled at for shaking the shitty house floorboards when I heel walked, next question.

I used to think I like walking on the balls of my feet because it provided more shock absorption than heels. The heels hit too hard, and it feels wrong tho the military did train that out of me.

https://psychcentral.com/autism/walking-on-tiptoes-autism#autism-and-toe-walking

It’s believed that toe walking may be directly or indirectly due to a dysfunctional vestibular system — a condition commonly seen in autism.

The vestibular system, which involves the inner ear and central nervous system (CNS), is what gives your body a sense of:

balance
position
spatial orientation

If the system isn’t working correctly, you can have difficulties with coordination and balance.

so if im understanding correctly, autism can cause a messed up sense of ballance and spacial orientation, which in turn can lead to toe walking

I often have to catch myself from assuming people I see toe-walking are autistic. I went to physical therapy as a teen (ironically, I went for heel-walking) and so many kids there just came because they toe-walked.

Havent done it since I was young. But I just remember it being fun, and feeling faster than normal walking

I'm 30 years old and i still toe walk. It just feels comfy.

I suppose we'd have to see if the tendency splits down the line of hypersensory or hyposensory. To me, a hypersensory autistic that does toe walk, I always figured I did it because your heel hitting the ground is both too loud and a bit of a jarring sensation physically too. I only know a handful of other Autistic people well enough to know if they are hyper or hypo and if they toe walk, but my limited data does line up that way. Would be interested to hear of any counter data/anecdotes.

I remember my mother trying to fix my posture, my grandparents telling me that I had short tendons that needed to be fixed, etc. Turns out it was normal all this time.

This is really eye-opening. So much of my childhood involved neck problems and my mom telling me to stop walking on my toes.

..What

I've always done this. This is a thing?

Well damn this is me, and I'm diagnosed ASD. Had no idea the two are related.