is being physically SLOW an aspie trait?

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09 Apr 2008, 12:11 pm

i'm slow.

my mom used to say that i had two speeds, slow and reverse.

i can't keep up with just about anybody if we are say walking in a mall or a zoo or someplace like that.

i'm slow getting into a car, carrying things, doing just about anything. my running speed is equal to most people's easy walking speed.

my 6yo daughter is the same way.

just wondering if this is part of AS or just a me quirk.


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09 Apr 2008, 12:16 pm

Motor coordination and motor planning problems are common in autistic people of all sorts, and can definitely lead to slowness in some people. (And a subset of us will experience increased slowness (constant or intermittent) during puberty or young adulthood.)


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09 Apr 2008, 12:18 pm

Not necessarily, I tend to walk fast and try to get routine tasks done quickly.



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09 Apr 2008, 12:28 pm

I tend to sometimes walk very fast and speed ahead of other people....but in many other areas, I am very slow and fumbly...it does not help that I am constantly distracted...mentally.



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09 Apr 2008, 12:37 pm

poopylungstuffing wrote:
I tend to sometimes walk very fast and speed ahead of other people....but in many other areas, I am very slow and fumbly...it does not help that I am constantly distracted...mentally.


Me too.


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09 Apr 2008, 12:39 pm

SilverProteus wrote:
poopylungstuffing wrote:
I tend to sometimes walk very fast and speed ahead of other people....but in many other areas, I am very slow and fumbly...it does not help that I am constantly distracted...mentally.


Me too.

Me three I don't like to stick around. My dad walk painfully slow. There is a certain speed that is almost impossible for me to walk slower than, it just feels horrible.



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09 Apr 2008, 1:00 pm

Looks like walking fast is common in aspies, I'm a very fast walker and runner too 8)
Are you short? Short people are more likely to walk slow :P


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09 Apr 2008, 1:19 pm

I am a fast walker but a slow runner.


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09 Apr 2008, 1:25 pm

I can be a very fast walker, but if I am shopping for groceries I doddle, I have to read all the labels, or plan meals, since I do alot of the cooking, I don't really think being slow is an aspie trait



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09 Apr 2008, 1:42 pm

Im a slow walker but partly because I look at everything and I notice things that others dont.



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09 Apr 2008, 2:04 pm

Apuleyo wrote:
Looks like walking fast is common in aspies, I'm a very fast walker and runner too 8)
Are you short? Short people are more likely to walk slow :P


i am short and walk fast.



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09 Apr 2008, 2:07 pm

An area in which my slowness is painfully apparent is whenever I have a job in the foodservice industry...every aspect of those jobs i seem to perform 10 times slower than everyone around me....also.....sports......and even though I ride a bike everywhere, i seem to ride more slowly than other people.

I am fast at churning out artwork..sometimes...



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09 Apr 2008, 2:12 pm

I was a slow starter when it came 2 sports such as playin as a team n catchin a ball.



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09 Apr 2008, 2:23 pm

I walk fast when moving from place to place.

When shopping, or looking around, I move very slowly, looking at every single item.

I suck at sports.

I can run fast.



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09 Apr 2008, 2:26 pm

I think it's an independent trait. After all, not everything you or I do can be pinned on Asperger's Syndrome.


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09 Apr 2008, 2:37 pm

velodog wrote:
Not necessarily, I tend to walk fast and try to get routine tasks done quickly.


you are also undiagnosed.