Does anyone else get told about their "swagger"

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And a gorilla.

They're so kind aren't they?
Doing imitation walks.
*sarcasm*

I became very paranoid though because many students were just too well brought up and polite to say anything, so I just put it down to bad luck for ages.

This is unfair because I was told that I was good at sport (hit the ball over the net scored lots of goals etc.) so I can move around quite well when I have to. It's quite unnerving to score the winning goal and perform a spectacular save only to be told that there's something "wrong" with me that the PE teacher just can't put her finger on.

I began to question reality at this point because I was helping all my friends to win the game and I was frequently picked for teams, but apparently this wasn't good enough for some people. My head hurt a while after I received my "ambiguous" report card "a brilliant student who's a cause for concern".

Oh and tripping over.
I sometimes stumble unexpectedly; this gets mixed reactions from people such as:
"What happened there then?"

It usually occurs when I have to talk and walk or do several things at the same time casually (it's a lot harder than it looks).

If I'm fully concentrating on one thing it's not usually a problem. I can handle dangerous machinery and chemicals very competently if the floor is level and the situation is quiet.

All my life people have commented on my walk. No one could quite pin down the best description, but most called it "bouncy" (toe walking). Anyway, when I was a teenager I was trying to hard to fit in that I started hanging out with a really rough street gang. I couldn't even fit in with that group of misfits, but I did change my walk... I started using a "gangsta limp" as it was called. Then I think I got made of more for being a white guy with a "gangsta limp". Unfortunately that limp is still with me somewhat, and whenever I am walking through a crowd all the thug-type people automatically notice it. It's not something I want, and I wish I didn't have it. My wife has even commented on it, though now it's sort of a combination of the ghetto limp thing and the bouncy walk I had when I was a kid.