Toe walking help?

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I'm a brand-newly-discovered Aspie, and it was the characteristic of an 'odd gait' or 'toewalking' that finally convinced my mother I very likely have AS. It's bugged my family my whole life, but of course, I didn't even realize I was doing it... Enough people teased me that I taught myself how to at least TRY and walk without putting my toe down first, so now, whenever one sees me out and about and walking "normally", in my head I'm saying, "Heel toe heel toe heel toe". I'm wondering, will NOT toe walking always have to be a conscious decision? Or will I have to repeat my litany of "heel toe, heel toe, heel toe" for forever?

Sketchers has a kind of shoe called Shape-up. I also own MBT's. I like color, and both of these are in black, but the curved sole makes it look like I'm walking correctly. It makes a normal gait easier to approximate. When I'm stressed I still get a little stiff, but it's harder to tell. Recently I found Sketchers Stride in bright red and bright blue. They aren't quite the same, but they seem like they are built for tip toeing. When I'm in weird mode, I look terrible walking in them, but otherwise its easy to appear normal when walk... wait... are these a women's shoe?

Now that I know of the Aspie connection, I love seeing people toe walk. I don't feel so alone.

A user on here reported that those shoes with the rocker-shaped soles that are supposed to tone your butt actually had the side effect of curing her awkward gait. I think the brand she had were Skechers Shape-Ups, but the other major athletic shoe companies also make toning shoes.

if you start early enough and keep practicing, it can become semi-automatic.
i walk normal-ish usually, but if i'm stressed, i revert to tip-toes, unless i remind myself not to, but that's only at the start
once i take 2 steps in the 'normal' way, i then keep walking normally untill i stand still.

As a kid, I toe walked so frequently that one of my achilles tendons is permanently too short. I had to teach myself "heel toe heel toe" but I still revert to toe walking if I'm overloaded/overwhelmed/stressed. But because of the short achilles tendon, I tend to walk funny anyway.

I usually toe walk after I wake up from bed .

I tend to unconciously switch between toe and normal walking. Neither one is really more comfortable, but I do find I toe walk more when I'm in a good mood.

It's not "toe walking". It's "ninja walking"...

I do it when I want to move quickly across my squeaky floor.

Have you considered high heels? I don't know if it'd work ... Just a thought