"feet scuffing,"

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I know toe walking is concidered to be one of the classic symptoms/signs of autism. When I was little I used to "scuff," my feet alot. I vaugly remeber doing it for the scencation some of the time. I believe I also walked on my toes at times too but not sure. I know I walk on my toes at times when I amnot wearing shoes. I was wonderng if anyone else "scuffed,"thier feet? Thanks

I would scuff my feet on the ground so much I got yelled at constantly to lift my feet when I walked. I was also looking at the ground as I did this too.
I used to stand on my toes, but don't remember toe walking. I would have fallen flat on my face if I did that.

Y look at the ground alot when I walk. I do remeber standing on my toes alot too. They kept corructng me in gym classto put my heals down when we were doing the "Stand on one foot," Execises

Both, and still do both. Although the foot-scuffing has changed since I was a child. I used to scuff the tops of my toes - always got in trouble for not having properly polished shoes at school! Now I scuff the soles of my feet along the ground - I've worn through the soles of shoes doing it.

I've toe-walked ever since I learned how to walk. I toe-walk 100% when barefoot. I toe-walk to some degree in certain types of shoes. In styles of shoes that don't make toe-walking possible, I scuff my feet along the floor. I guess it's because scuffing them puts an emphasis on the front of the foot, where you toe-walk.
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I have noticed a tendency for Japanese women (the younger ones) to scuff/drag their feet!

I am talking here about those born and raised in Japan.

I haven't noticed this with those of Japanese descent born and raised outside of Japan?

I still scuffed my feet in my late teens...

I can't remember if I did. I do remember that in about grade 2 I picked up the "do not walk on cracks/lines" habit with the "even number of steps" which made me walk funny for a while till I got teased for it. I think I might have scuffed my feet but can't remember a particular instance of it.

Right now I walk with barely lifting my fleet, if I'm walking on a flat surface I will graze small pebbles, nuts, etc on the ground (like less that a centimetre high). My feet barely raise off the ground.

I scuff my feet as I walk, and I look down, quite a bit. I find myself having to buy sneakers, every 4 months, instead of twice a year.

I still do both.
I got yelled at by a lady at the post office for scuffing my feet as an adult...Toe walking makes less noise, so I guess nobody has felt compelled to yell at me for it ....It depends on the shoes I happen to be wearing.

I did both and still do from time to time.

OMG, I thought I was the only one who ever did that!

I am not aware enough of my body to know whether I am feet-scuffing or toe-walking or whatever, but I do remember my mom furiously screaming at me when I was about four years old, "Why don't you walk right?" I had no idea what she meant, and I desperately tried to please her, but she just kept getting angrier and angrier. To this day, I don't really walk like other people, but I don't know exactly what the difference is. I did recently realize an advantage, though. When I wear YakTrax on my shoes (the springy things that keep people from falling on snow and ice), I don't have nearly the trouble that other people do when wearing them indoors, such as to cut through a building on campus to get to another one. Maybe I walk more "flat-footed" than they do?

I walked on my toes until I was reprimanded in first grade for not walking normally (of course, I was pretty much punished that entire year for not being normal in general). Now, I make a concentrated effort to walk more on my toes, since my "normal" walking is very heavy-footed and almost seems like stomping.

I actually walked on my heels, not my toes. Mum thought it was the strangest thing. Now, I have drop foot, so the toes of my shoes are always torn up. My brand new Chucks I got for Christmas are looking horrid, need to find some polish for the white toe.

Has anyone else ever converted the toe walking thing to a heel walking? Or am I just an odd duck?

I didn't scuff my feet. I was taught from a very young age to look after my property including my clothing and shoes, so I was always conscious of the fact that scuffing them would ruin them. I didn't walk on my toes but I ran on them. For some reason I was able to run faster on my toes than I was on the whole of my feet.