What is it meant by "odd gait"

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I've been hearing this about autism lately. My mom claims I have an "odd gait" but I also had a back and knee injury. So what do people mean when they imply "odd gait"? I've seen NT people with an "odd gait" and they are usually high as a kite or drunk as a skunk.

I think a couple characteristics of odd gait in the context of autism would be things like having a weird posture, or not swinging arms while walking. When most people thing of odd gait they probably think of something like the ministry of silly walks.

Maybe it means that they do not like the way you walk

A stranger had the nerve to tell me "walk like a normal person, not a thug"

Some children had the nerve to imitate my gait

And a clinical psychologist at Kaiser had the nerve to tell me that it was "your transgender walk". After he saw me walk from the waiting room to his office.

And he was getting paid

It's like insult to injury

Some precious lil "people" are so entitled, that they truly believe that they have a moral right, to veto anything, just because they do not like it



Even Prisoners of War have rights

Inmates have rights

Death row inmates have rights

Marines recruits have rights

And I ain't got no rights

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/aurt/2015/741480/
In recent years, it has become clear that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) have difficulty with gross motor function and coordination, factors which influence gait. Knowledge of gait abnormalities may be useful for assessment and treatment planning.

I think that gait issues can often be fixed with physical therapy, but that resource typically isn't available.

An "odd gait" is basically an atypical walking pattern. It can be caused by a number of things. As it relates to autism, it is commonly due to gross motor skills impairments. It sometimes requires physical therapy, depending on the severity.

Nephets

We are just different. The person pointing this out is the one with the problem.



A clinical psychologist had the nerve to tell me that part of being autistic is being bad at imitating someone else. The psychologist then told me that I was so bad at imitating someone, that that caused me to walk in a "transgender walk" way and like I was "from the hood"

Seriously wtf?

Maybe I hurt his eyeballs by making him watch me walk from the waiting room to the office.

If you have to constantly pay attention to the way you walk, then maybe that will leave you with less attention to do anything else with

I have been told to swing my arms more when I walk. I always thought I had a fairly normal way of walking.

One common Aspie gait is the bouncy walk caused by toe walking. The regular gait of a person wearing shoes has the heel hit the floor first, not the ball of the foot, but lots of children and adults on the spectrum walk on the balls of their feet (apparently to put less of the nerve-rich foot in contact with the floor.) Also holding the arms stiffly at the sides instead of letting them swing freely to balance the opposite leg, and hunching over looking at the floor instead of looking ahead at where they are going. These things are not a problem for the ambulating Aspie, but do look really different from the way a normally coordinated neurotypical walks.

What others mean by "odd gait" it actually meant that -- odd postures, odd movements...

I'm not clumsy, but I still and do have an odd gait.
It's not that I have motor issues(not something I ever have or had, both gross-motor and fine-motor), it's just I don't know how to physically place myself.

I still feel this subconscious positions, as it happened to be looking odd yet comfortable. Sometimes I still don't know which is the most comfortable at the moment, so I tend to choose the one I picked up the most.

The part that I have an odd gait yet not clumsy by any definition -- it might be something to do with the physical sense of bodily self, movement planning, physical sense of space, and spatial aptitudes.
So I have an odd gait, with odd ways of handling things. Yet, more efficient than the 'right way' of handling things. Sometimes, better than the 'right way'.
Others tried, but have a hard time mimicking. Most people thought I'm just being creative and I made a lot of tricks.. Or hacks. It's kinda true in a sense.

But in reality, it's just limitless range of behavior and movement being tempered by knowledge and folk physics, utilized by aptitudes.
In a sense supposedly an disadvantage. Not in my case.

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Walking on the balls of your feet would be an example of an odd gait, brought on by underlying Sensory Processing Disorder. People with this gait will likely have a bouncy gait too.

An unsteady gait (that to the casual bystander may seem like you're drunk) is another example of an odd gait, brought on by moderate or severe Dyspraxia.