Have a hard time standing up straight

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On multiple occasions, I've had difficulty with this. Like when I was trying on a jacket at Macy's with my mum. She kept telling me to stand up straight and I tried to, but it took several times before I could successfully stand up straight.

We were practicing shooting a few times, and I was practicing with a rifle. As the person was helping me, they kept telling me to stand up straight, and I tried, but it took a number of times. When finally I did, I ended up losing straight posture after a little while, returning to my usual slumping posture. Eventually, they gave up with me.

Anyone else have this? I think it's related to the proprioception issues that some people with ASD can have.

Only like every day. I have always felt uncomfortable in my body. I have Tourettes, so it makes me feel even more uncomfortable.

I hate sitting in chairs. I slouch or lean back or pull my legs up into the seat.

I have poor posture-I slouch a lot both when walking and when sitting. My mum is insistent that this is because I don't want to show off my breasts but it's really not-I just can't seem to maintain a good posture for some reason. I always look 1 or 2 clothes sizes bigger than I actually am as I struggle to hold my stomach muscles in so my belly is very flabby.

I've found that working out helps, but I have to make a conscious effort to pull my back back and lift my head up.

How many on you notice that, akin to poor eye contact, when speaking with someone else your body posture will slouch and your head will sort of protrude forward?

I had this problem as a kid and I don't know if I am not standing up straight or not. I still slouch my back when I sit.

Ha ha! I do the same, and always have!

Also, I wonder if this is something really is common to ASD/ADHD. I remember watching a Japanese cartoon online about a boy with ADHD, and this took place in Japan. Posture while sitting was one of the things I noticed. In Japanese school, students are taught a very specific way of sitting of straight, and there are like posters in the school telling the children how to sit. In the classroom the ADHD boy was in, all the students were sitting perfectly, except for her him. He had his elbow on the desk, with his head on his hand, and was kinda leaning over to one side, in stark contrast to his classmates. Apparently, the teachers had given up trying to correct him, because no one had said anything to him about that.

It might also be associated with schizophrenia, because I see for childhood schizophrenia, one of the early warning signs in toddlers is a "weak and slumping posture":

http://www.childrenshospital.org/health ... izophrenia

Of course, that seems highly non-specific. Heck, a lot of those early warning signs look a lot like autism/ADHD, which I think is much more common in children.

I'm good with walking and standing up straight. I've been told by honest close relatives and even good friends that I hold myself much straighter than I used to when I was a young teenager.

Sometimes when I'm standing waiting for a bus or something, I find myself standing stiffly. I comfortably hold myself up straight subconsciously, but as soon as I become conscious of it (like feeling put off if I notice people staring at me), I find myself locked in the same straight position, and by the time the waiting period is over, I have a cramp in the back of my shoulders and neck.

I've always had a hard time standing up straight. At school I always walked looking at the floor because I was bullied so much (of course, then got bullied for that too), and because I always had stomachaches and walking hunched up helped with the pain. I have to really think about standing straight, though am better at it than I was. I still find it weird to look at peoples faces though.

A very hard time! I also have a hard time sitting up straight in chairs to.

Yes, it's ASD. Don't worry about it. If you can stand up straight, chances are you don't have ASD.

Have you tried squeezing (tightening) your hamstrings?

When I squeeze my hamstrings, it makes me stand up straight. It pulls my hips to a different location a little, and then my spine adjusts and I just naturally straighten up. You could crash into me when I do that and I doubt I would fall over. It's a really stable posture for me.

I've had this issue my whole life too.

Yes, it's ASD. Don't worry about it. If you can stand up straight without effort, chances are you don't have ASD.[/quote]

Fixed

I stand like an alpha dog: gut in and chest out.
Sometimes I forget and I am reminded by people saying things like "putting on a little weight?" I look down to realize I forgot to "stand right". Lol.

Yoga is very good for improving both your balance and your posture. It strengthens your 'core' muscles (back and stomach) and improves your flexibility. I'm an uncoordinated clod, but I do yoga almost every day, and i have excellent posture.

I was born with the muscles on the right quarter of my body in spasm and twisted/pulled out of position.
I didn't even really understand that until I was about 27, and it took years of stretching (preceded by 6 months of intolerable pain until I went to a chiropractor), till I was about 31 for me to actually be physically able to stand up straight.
Until I did so, I never even knew I hadn't before.
For the first time in my life I knew what it was like to have all the muscles in my body in the right place.
Now I still stretch regularly, and I try to stand and sit straight when I remember to, to keep the pain, discomfort, and spasms to a minimum, but I do forget sometimes, and it's not always easy maintaining the correct posture.
All the years of being in the wrong place and in spasm makes my muscles prone to go back to that state if I don't stretch and pay attention to my posture, and sometimes even if I do.

Ah well.
At least I don't have part of myself in constant agony without me knowing about it anymore, to paraphrase The Matrix, like a splinter in my mind driving me mad.
That's how I lived the first 27 years of my life, with two brief exceptions, and I have no desire to go back to that.