Gait problems? Limp?

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This may sound ridiculous, but I was wondering if any of you walk with a limp of a mysterious origin. I had one that persisted for like a year. Now it comes occasionally. During the height of it, I had EMG and NCS tests conducted. I had a hip x-ray and an MRI done on my back. I haven't had an accident or taken a fall. I still have tons of research to do about Aspergers, but I think I've gathered that clumsiness is a trait. I find myself loosing my balance a couple times a day. Luckily, it never results in a fall, but it is quite noticeably. So, is it just clumsiness, or do some of you even limp?

I have always walked with a little bit of a limp. I don't have any idea why as both of my legs are fine and I was extensively tested when I was little, but they didn't turn up anything. I've just attributed it to my dyspraxia.

mine is due to spondylolisthesis.

Sometimes when I walk I can hear the cadence is off - not quite even. I've paid attention to it and found that for some reason my stride is uneven - one foot either reaches further than the other or the opposite leg moves faster - I can't tell which.

No seeming reason for it - I've never had a leg injury or spinal issues...

Also when I'm upset like today with the welfare crap (see my thread in The Haven) my walk is choppy - I will walk with tiny short cropped choppy little robotic strides. I probably look like an idiot

I've been told I have a distinctive gait when I walk. I think I walk normally but apparently I don't in other people's eyes. One of the times someone mentioned it was when I was back in my hometown for a funeral. A fellow attendee got talking to me, someone who had not seen me since my childhood, she was a friend of my mother's. I think the last time she saw me walking anywhere I was 11 years old, and when we met again that day at the funeral, I was 27.

She said she had been at the same florist's shop but I hadn't noticed her, and the only way she recognized me for sure was my walk, when I walked on out of the store and along the street outside, she said she knew it was me from my walk, and that I walked the same. At the time I was puzzled and thought I walk just like everyone else. After more of this over the yeas,r I realized I don't.

Now, at 52, things are worse still because I limp sometimes due to knee joint and hip joint problems. I can't win.

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People tell me it looks like I'm limping on my left side.

I'm not consciously aware of it.

I sometimes really do limp due to joint pain. In part because I have super weak ligaments in my lower body and my juvenile onset rheumatism. Being overweight doesn't help either.

But even when I feel fine I walk funny. My drama teacher pointed out I have a kind of 'bouncy' walk back in highschool. And my mom says I kick my feet out, what ever that means.

It's probably why I was first taken to the doctors that wanted to cut my legs up. They told my mom I am knock kneed and pigeon toed. They wanted to cut my legs open and break the bones so they could reset them to grow straight. I am so glad mom told them no.