Funny walk

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Who here walks funny and knows it? I can't help it...I try like hell to straighten my posture and walk with a natural, relaxed stride, but it doesn't work out. I read this is an aspie/autistic thing having to do with sensory issues, but I don't get it. I also caught myself, while walking deep in thought, with my head cocked to the side slightly. I must look insane.

I have a very rigid walk. I never swing my arms when I walk, and I walk pretty much straight. Almost robot-like.

A few times as a kid and young teenager I forgot how to walk for a few minutes at a time. It was quite strange. I needed to consciously move one leg then the next and so on. After a few minutes walking became automatic again. Don't know if this was related to Aspergers or what. I sometimes also had a similar problem with breathing, needing to consciously breath in and out until it became automatic again. It was weird. Not stress related in any way, just happened at random.

I posted in another topic about how I’ve been told that I walk as though I have a stick up my butt.

I’m one of those “stiff moving walkers”. No fluidity or grace to my walk at all. The harder I try to think about moving in a more relaxed manner, the stiffer I move.

I guess I'm different. I walk like the strings supporting me are breaking, flopping all about the place. And I usually have my head tilted, often to the right.

I figured out not to long ago that the extent of my floppiness is directly related to the clothes I am wearing. If they are extremly comfortable and loose, I walk more straight. But if they fit weird, I walk weird.

Though, how I walk ought not be an indication, as I limp everywhere I go.

I don't have a strange posture (I think I don't, at least, I seem to have so little self-awareness) but I do know that I walk to fast, hit my feet on the ground too hard as I walk, and I tend to run my friends into the wall if they are next to it nd I'm on the other side; they call this my "half penguin walk."

I walk extremly fast and im stiff as a pole. Dunno if i look weird but im pretty certain i look like im in a hurry or that im very stressed.

Yes I walk and run with an awkward gait. I use gait as that was how I was told about it and how I hear it from papers/books on those with AS.

I've made a lot of progress on the walking thing (on most days I can let my arms swing and I don't bounce too much). Keep practicing - you'll get it eventually.

I walk permanently leaned forwards. I can't stop it. When I try I just end up walking with my chest stuck out, like a drill sargent. The only way to counteract it is to walk very slowly, so I retain standing posture.

I recall my mom yelling at me to ..."bend your knees..you look like a nazi storm trooper"..or something like that. It didn't help, just made me more self-concious that other people probably thought I looked weird She would also get mad that I couldn't sit in a Lazy boy chair the right way. I used to like to lay on the seat part with my legs over the side or up the back or sit on the floor with my legs on the chair seat...I still hate sitting up-right in a chair. What sadist invented them?

Apparently I walk like i'm 'paranoid'.

I never really noticed until someone recorded me walking and played it back to me. I was walking with my head down, my arms straight by my sides and quite fast compared to most people. I don't really know if that looks paranoid to most people or just a specific few. To me, I admit, it did look a little strange and now I always think people are analyzing my walking style.

I don't see it myself, but my mom says that I do what she calls "the AS walk"--she compared my walk to Heather Kuzmich (from America's Next Top Model).

I think I walk normal most of the time--except when I think about it. I start to walk funny if I think about how I'm walking...and I can't make myself walk normal again, because I don't pay attention to my "normal" walk.

Now that I've typed all this, when I get up to go to bed in a minute I'm not going to be able to walk normal.

It's common for people with ASDs to refrain from swinging their arms when they walk, this gives them an unique gait that's easy to see. It's also common for them to have a rigid and stiff posture.

Gait and posture abnormalities are common.