Bouncy walking - unusual gait

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My gait is the same way sometimes.

I've been told that I walk weird all of my life. Sometimes I bounce sometimes I toe walk. Sometimes I limp, when my joints act up. My daughter, who is also Aspie, walks very oddly. A friend of hers once affectionately said that she moved like a glow worm.

hey, it got me outta marching when i was in the army.

I used to ask people why they moved up and down so much when they walked next to me. Um, I guess it could have been me and not everyone else who was moving up and down a lot? I like it though. It's springy and fun.

I'm not sure that I've ever walked in a "bouncy" way, but I do have a tendency to walk pretty fast (to the point that in high school one of my most prominent pet peeves was how slow everyone else walked in the halls) and also about half my life ago my mom told me that I walked wrong because I walked toe-first so ever since then I've been consciously making sure to walk heel-first.

People tell me I walk too fast but I dont think i have an unusual gait or anything

I have allways had a strange gait and walk with a bounce. I was picked on at school because of it. The more conscious I became of how I walked the more mechanical it became.

I did when I was younger, I don't think I do today.

I think as I put on muscle and fat, I lost some bounce. lol.

gravity and geriatrics took away a lot of my bounce.

Yeah, I was teased about this as well Everyone mocked the way I walked, so I tried to walk differently. I don't think I bounce anymore, but it's probably still weird.

I have always toe walked and have a bouncy walk, but people rarely comment on it. Maybe I just got lucky that that was one "wierd" trait most people never noticed, so I was never teased about it. I have never attempted to correct my walking, because I find that walking "bouncy" makes me feel more upbeat and energetic.

I have also noticed that I walk faster than alot of people. I can't understand people making fun of bouncy walking, but I can see where fast walking can seem odd while walking in a group. Bouncy and fast walking combined probably does make my walk seem odder than I realize.

When I was a kid / teenager I tiptoed all the time at home (and possibly outside too, don't remember). When I was 15 a girl I knew once told me "you walk funny. Why do you walk like you are bouncing / floating? It's weird.". I had never realised this and was quite defensive about it at the time (she teased me a bit for a while), but then I worked on changing that and don't do it anymore.

Nowadays I think I walk relatively normally... though a bit awkward and tense.

I'm not officially diagnosed, but if it is an AS trait, then it's another piece of my AS puzzle.

Yep, in high school (Grade 9) I was tormented quite a lot by people who would imitate my walk, and never hesitate to point it out to me. I couldn't seem to get rid of the bounce. Was called "kangaroo kid" and the usual "spaz", "dork" etc. Kids can be downright horrible! I wasn't told about the bounce as much later on, and did receive coaching on it from a sports medicine doctor in the early 90s at the end of high school (just before Aspergers was recognized) but even then, and to this day, I am still told by a couple of people that my walk seems odd. I asked them if I walk with a bounce, and they said no (phew!) but told me that, they can't quite describe, but it seems weird, kind of mechanical. What the heck am I supposed to say, I have no basis for comparison!!

I'm the opposite. My walking has always been very stiff.

I posted here earlier but I'll clarify more. I feel like I bounce a bit but no one's ever said anything to me about that. I mostly get flack for walking like a duck. My dad does too. Our left feet point forward, but our right ones stick out like duck feet.

I find this interesting cuz my dad is definitely not quite NT either. The rest of my family (who are NT) walk normally.