ScarletIbis wrote:
I don't think people do it to make sure they have qualifications, I think it is just a mindless habit of muscle memory that is supposedly more common among the ASD population compared to the rest of the population. I am sure there is some reason people start walking like that but I think once you start it, your muscles just retain how you used them and try to do it again. Sometimes though, when I am thinking about it, I make myself walk 'normally' even though it feels unnatural.
I mean people shouldn't feel that since they have autism they should also have such and such trait. People have come on here in the past and basically asked that since they don't flap their hands, toe walk, or whatever do they really have autism.
Perhaps toe walking isn't noticeable to the observer, because in my experience of having always been in a private school for ASD, it's not something I recall seeing anyone doing that. Except maybe little kids. Or maybe they do and I'm oblivious to it because I've been around it my whole life.