Have a hard time standing up straight

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Posture is a part of the motor difficulties (well, what I recall reading).

I have no idea how people can stand and sit up straight -- my body just doesn't do it without far too much effort (meaning, I have to focus on that just that to do it).

I too have bad posture--part of it is that I spend so much time in front of a computer and tend to slouch a lot, especially if I don't get up every now and then and stretch. Exercise has helped, though. And it's funny because my mom constantly nags me about my posture.

Same as everyone else has said, and as soon as I stop thinking about standing up straight then I'm back to slumping again.

I read somewhere that people w/ASD tend to have lower neurological muscle tone than normal (completely different concept than body-builder "muscle tone").

Low neuro-muscle tone basically means than your muscles, for neurological reasons (not that nothing (like yoga) can help it, necessarily), are more loose and floppy than normal. I.e. when people drink alcohol, or take certain drugs (benzos, barbituates, chloroform, gabapentin, pregabalin) it lowers their n. muscle tone, giving the stereotypical floppy, drunk appearance. On the other end of the spectrum, Parkinson's disease (and drugs like haldol and rispiridone) give people high neuro. muscle tone -- their muscles are very tight (fighting each other) and stiff; the person can barely move. There's even a medical term, "lead-pipe rigidity" for when someone is so stiff that their limbs are like metal pipes. It all might have something to do with the cerebellum, which is known to be different with ASD.

I think my problem with "run straight" was always, that you simply get blamed for running streight and ge told to run streight, but actually noone really shows you exactly, what is meant by that. I had probs with it too, until I went to gear-gymnastics (bars, rail, floor gymnastics) with age 10-14. One of the first things that was teached to you there without any blame or expectation of you doing so, because every student was not perfect as it, as gymnastic-teachers expect it. So for them it was perfectly normal to train with the kids in the beginning, streight standing and walking. ^^ So I have been told a few times, that I seem to walk a bit mechanic (not robostyle, but without natural variation), but in the end I sit, stand and walk now streigth, if I want too and speically in public. At home I tend to lean in my PC-seat or into the couch.

I had that problem really badly as a kid to the point that my parents thought I was going to be a hunchback, so they said anyway. I always remember them telling me to stand up straight. I stand up straight now though most likely because I do a lot of sports. But I am not so sure that I had really bad posture as a kid because I don't notice it in my pictures. My parents also hammered into me that I was fat as a kid, well my pictures don't show that at all either. I was a very slim child bordering on skinny. But for some reason my parents thought I was fat and always had me on diets. I guess that really did me harm because it warped my self body image and now I am overweight. I wonder if I would have been now if I did not have a warped self body image. They never told my siblings that they were overweight just me so I am the one with huge problems with that now. They never told my siblings to stand up straight either. Oh well. at least I stand up straight now. But I have noticed that there are times when I have really bad posture too especially when I sit or when I am reaching for something.

I've always had bad posture.

I find it hard to walk with my head up, too. It's not because of lack of confidence or anything like that; I just feel more comfortable looking down.

I'm never comfortable: walking, standing, sitting, lying down. It's like I'm an alien in my own body.

I am glad to know it's an ASD thing. I remember my aunt, my grandmother and my mother always telling me to stand up straight even though I always thought I was. I think the many sports I do have helped a ton because they require a strong core and good balance so I am constantly working on those things. I do have trouble with balance when I am not doing sports though like when I am just walking or standing around. I slouch over my food when I eat sometimes too. But when I find myself slouching which is more often than not, I try to correct it.

That is interesting because even though I can have bad posture if I am not careful like right now as I am typing this, certain muscles in my body are so super tight that they became a serious health concern. Does anyone else have this also?