Swinging your arms when you walk

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When you walk, do you swing your arms like NTs do? Until the age of 14, I didn't swing my arms when I walked; I just "carried" them in front of me. My parents, and to a much greater extent, my classmates, gave me a great deal of trouble over this. Eventually, I learned to swing my arms, and it now comes naturally, but in the back of my mind, I still feel like I have to do that.

Please don't choose the last option unless you're really undecided. I'm trying to get an accurate count. Thanks.

i remember when i was in 6th grade this girl told me that i never moved my arms when i walked, and started telling me to swing my arms when I walked. Ever since i have been very consious of this swinging of the arms thing that is supposedly "normal"

It is normal. Not supposed to be. It is physics. If your body is not healthy and strong, connections inside of your body are not properly made. Your arms will not swing, or the same side arm and leg might swing at the same time.

If you are healthy, you can't help swinging your arms and running. The way the human body is constructed forces you to.

I only swing one arm usually, but i also have a noticable limp and im sure it has something to do with that.

I've absolutely no idea...
There's no option for that in the poll either.

I swing my arms like most people. I have noticed that one arm swings more than the other one.

My arms normally stay pretty still.
When I was in army cadets at school, I would swing the arm on the same side as my leg as I marched. The officers had hours of frustration trying to get me out of the habit.

This is why I always wear a jacket with pockets when I'm out!

Swinging my arms doesn't feel normal in the slightest, strange really. I remember in some sports day back when I was 7 or something I ran a short length with my arms completely still, heh.

I think I had a problem with this when i was a kid. I faintly recall a conversation with another kid about arm swinging, it made sense to do it at the time so now it comes naturally.

Why dos it make sense why is it normal. Why would u need to use your arms to walk. Do these people have very bad balance

I swing my arms; and also apparently walk 'too fast." Considering how short I am, that's a pretty good feat, too.

I swing just fine.

I am a very slow, meandering walker, despite being 6'2 and quite fit.

Sometimes I swing both arms. But more often than not, I only swing mostly one or the other. I think sometimes my left swings more than my right. But this in part might be more out of habit because I always carry my bookbag on my right. (But I'm refering to when I'm not carrying a bookbag.)

Yes it probably does. Please tell me which leg limps and which arm swings and which arm does not.

It is the way the human body is constructed. The forces within the body balance each other out if the person swings their arms while walking.

I was just talking about this in a post in another thread. I think I've always swung my arms normally but I have an aspie coworker who doesn't swing hers. I always knew something didn't look quite right about the way she walked, but it took me 2 years to figure out what it was. My husband has a new coworker who sounds very aspie and he doesn't move his upper body at all when he walks. My dad (a little aspie too) swings his arms, but he holds his hands very stiff, fingers straight. That looks kinda weird too.