Can you tie your shoes traditionally?

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Hey there everyone, so I never learned how to tie my shoes traditionally ( with the rabbit going through the hole and whatever) I actually learned it once when I was young and forgot soon after learning and never learned again, I had to be taught a different way.

None of my autistic friends on all levels can tie their shoes in the traditional way, or sometimes at all.
Is there ANYONE here on the spectrum that can tie their shoes?

I learned to tie my shoes when I was very young, but I think I do it differently than a lot of people. Of course, now my kids tie their shoes the way I do, because I taught them. My husband ties his differently than I do, and probably his way is simpler to learn. Go figure.

I tied my shoes and then the knot lasts for a couple months and then I can just slip into my shoes.

Yes, but I wasn't able to until I was 10.

I actually can't think of the answer to this. I wasn't trained with the "rabbit through the hole" scenario, so I have no idea. I know lots of different knots now, so I'm not sure I can recall how I was taught or if I do it traditionally.

Rabbit? Hole? I don't know anything about that.
According to videos on youtube looks like I really tie them the "Bunny ear" way. But I don't see any bunny there...

I cross the lace, tie it, create loops of the rest of lace and tie the loops. No big deal. I learned it by watching how my mom does it when she was doing my shoes.

I do bunny ears too, no through the loop for me. I also have no fingers on one of my hands though, so I would probably have to change the dominant hand or something strange feeling in order to push the lace through the hole.

I know the method of the traditional way, but I do not use it.

I used to tie my shoes with bow knots, but now I just do plain square knots because I think bow knots look stupid.

Nope, could never tie shoes normally as a child and still can't as an adult. I wear boots, but make two loops and tie those together as others above have mentioned. Never occurred to me that may be an autism thing.

I can tie my shoes.

My AS son could tie his shoes in kindergarten (his school reinforced the skill with him daily and often throughout the day).

But then, in first grade, we got him slip-on shoes and he forgot. Part of the way through first grade, we got him tie shoes again. But his teacher wouldn't let him wear them because he couldn't tie them independently.

So, now we are in a rut. We work on it at home but probably not as much as we should. (He's now going into 3rd grade).

Because of that experience, I've told my daughter (risking kindergartener) that she will wear tie shoes everyday in kindergarten and 1st grade. After that, she make other choices. But, I want the skill ingrained first. (She may not have trouble, she's NT and has already taught herself to tie little bows in her dresses.)

I think it may be more difficult for those the spectrum, but if you can carry out a sequence of actions in other scenarios and have the fine motor ability required to pinch strings and move them, I don't see why it can't be learned. Might take a significant amount of repetitions. Might not be ultimately worth it. But, I don't see how it's universally impossible.

Yes ,but it always loose quickly.

Yes I can but it took me a long time to learn-- think I was probably ten or older? I never could quite do things that required my fingers to be dexterous.

Yes, we had this taught to us in class at around the age of 5 or 6, and then my dad bought me a pair of laced shoes (I didn't have any before) so that I could practice.

We weren't taught "bunny ears" though -- I was taught the loop one, where you make a bunny ear of only one lace, and loop the other lace around it and then through itself to form the other "ear" in completion.

I had to look up what the bunny ear method is. Yes, that's the way I learned it.
I only did from age 9 though.
For the most part the knot will last for a long time and I'll just slip my foot into the shoe, but occasionally it'll be too loose so I have to re-tie it immediately.

Yes, but it took me way longer to learn than a normal kid.

I use the "bunny ears" (two loops) method. I learned it at age 6, and that's all I know. It took me many months to master. Before that, I either wore velcro shoes or just tied many overhand knots. (It's the one you do before the loops.) I saw most kids use the "around the tree" (one loop) method, but no one gave me trouble over it. I guess NT kids, despite being experts at spotting individual differences, overlooked this little detail.

Any reason why "around the tree" is preferred? What advantage does it have over "bunny ears"?