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I'm not autistic but I started toe walking when I was a kid because heel strikes gave me headaches. The toe walk is way more springy and absorbs a lot of impact in the muscles of the legs rather than the heel. The way I toe walk is more understated than how I've seen some autistic people toe walk though. If you look at me walk, you might not even notice that I'm toe walking because my heels are low but my weight is all in the front of the foot. Anyway, I think toe walking is superior to the heel-toe walk or heel strike even in running.

Thank you so so so much for this.

Atlas calves , I got'em , I also have so many different walks, I once took a 32+mile walk, took 12 hours .

Thank you so much for this, i feel so much better now after a exhausting day with a lot of overwhelming stress bcs of noises from outside (bus,metro,people) sending you a lot of hugs and positive energy ❤

I still love tippy toeing. Honestly I feel more “balanced” when I am on my tip-toes. It feels comfortable.

I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child but it wasn't called ADHD I was coined a Slow Learner only later in my adult life (I am 50 years old) did I learn the name of the name of my slow learning condition. I do remember as a child though I would walk on my toes, I did not realize I was doing it but one of my grandmothers would notice when I would do it and she would ask "Why are you walking tippy toe" than she would point it out to my parents and ask them "Why is my grandbaby walking tippy toed like that, look" and she would point at me and tell my parents they needed to get me checked cause that isn't normal.

Hey, this was fantastic! You're right, some of these states you're describing are similar to the liberated blissfulness that meditators have sought for millennia. The "I am this body, I am this person" is the ego sense and in advanced states of consciousness of great yogis, they've realized that the thoughts of "I am this body, I am these thoughts, I am this person" will fade away in deepest meditation. The "real I" one might say is the being or pure consciousness, no self, no other. Could it be that some autistic folks have less of the "false I" ego sense than most other folks? Fascinating theory.

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As an adult I walk with the sides .feels uncomfortable to have my foot flat

Honestly whenever I'm going to school I'm always sweating so much even when it's 5 degrees celsius and that's why I always avoid layers and people ask me why I'm a not wearing this or that

I’m sad. Toe walking has always been something I did regularly, and I did this into adulthood. But I had to stop because I fell and damaged my Achilles tendons, and I now can’t toe walk at all now. 😢

I am in this exact position right now and have been here before. I have been stuck in my car for 50 minutes, waiting for something to compel me to open the car door and get out.

Hooo… wow. I needed to hear this. Thank you for reading to me. And thank you, Donna, for writing to me.

I have an autistic son. He is 5 years old and when the winter comes he neither wants to wear winter clothes nor let me use it. He keeps asking me to remove. So I found this video. I am trying to understand. Curious to know why he doesn’t like others to wear it too.

Isn't this the natural way to walk? Every other animal walks like this.

this is very interesting. I struggle (really struggle. I've been on sick leave because of it) with fatigue and muscle tension/exhaustion/pain. like my muscles are working all the time but I'm not doing anything. I don't have an official diagnosis but I strongly suspect I a bit of an auDHDer... from what I can relate to from hearing people with a diagnosis describing it... this is a fresh path to go down. just tried the self hugging and automaticly did a deep in- and exhale before he even mentioned it. so there is definetly some value for me in it.

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Thank u sm, this was REALLY helpful actually

You now have another subscriber! ✌️ You might not hear this enough, so I guess I'll let you know, I think you're kinda cute.

A Buddhist go into a pizza place and says, "make me one with everything" When his pizza comes out he give the cashier a $20 bill. He patiently waits for a while and then asks, "Where is my change?" The cashier responds, "Change must come from within."

I often say I was raised by cats. We had 3 cats and I would follow them and squeeze into their hiding spots with them and they would cuddle up with me for naps. Often no one could find me because I had gone into a cat hole they thought would be too small for me to get into.

As a pre-teen I literally lived in a closet for 4 years. It was only 4x5 so I could not lie down with my legs straight.

My youngest daughter has always walked on her toes.

As an undiagnosed autistic person this makes a lot of sense for the way I saw things growing up and to this day.

Im an autistic woman who of course never knew until I was 37. I toe walked as a child. Thing is my son who is so obviously autistic everyone knows immediately just looking at him was NOT a toe walker until he hit age 10 or 11. I have all the home videos to show it. Now hes 15 and is high up on those toes and you cant tell him anything against it. Now people see him and immediately assume hes incapable of most things and they think hes got the mind of a much younger child. He doesnt like that people that hes incapable of things his age boys should be able to do but he refuses to even try re learning to walk heel toe. Its going to negatively effect his life if he doesn't make an effort to modify this.

I'm a little late here, but I wanted to share my experience with toe walking regardless. I've been toe walking since I can remember and I find, that it is a whole combination of things that make me do it. 1. Sensory issues I hate wearing shoes in the house or on particular outdoor surfaces like sand and grass, because I kind of need to feel the surface that I'm walking/standing on. But whenever I am barefoot, my soles stick to the ground or I get small stuff stuck to the soles like crumbs, tiny stones, leaves etc. or there's a wet patch that i step into and I instantaneously shudder and get overwhelmed. So one of my instincts is, to minimize the surface area that can come into contact with icky ground. Hence the toe walk. 2. Pain Walking heel-toe does quite often cause me physical pain. The pressure on the heel starts to really hurt after a while and the entire "flat-foot-posture" starts to cause tension and pain in my legs, (causes actual cramping) and my back right up to my neck which can cause really bad tension headaches. So when I walk on my toes (or high heels) there is less pain than with regular flat shoes or barefoot. Also the impact vibrations of the heel hitting the ground while walking hurts and is quite disconcerting to me. 3. Ease of motion I find that toe walking is more "springy" than heel-toe. It takes less energy for me to "propel" myself forward when I'm not involving the heel. So I can walk/run faster and not get tired as quickly as when I go heel-toe. Toe walking also allows for a more quiet step, which is nice because it ties into Nr. 1 sensory issues. If I'm not stomping around like a drunk rhino, there is less noise I have to deal with.

Part of the 'fun' for me in writing my own music is that I can listen to it over and over until im tired of it then Im ready to create more. Its my pattern..create/analyze/burn out...this video makes sense to me. I also tend to gravitate towards certain subjects whether it be music(a particular genre or artist) or a historical topic or sporting topic mainly football(my football manager game inparticular) or boxing. I go from one to the other seldom all of these at once...when I have what I consider to be a good balance I feel so much more at ease in my life. Everything else disrupts this and has to be 'endured'...most of life is a test of my endurance. I realise that my relationships with women have been attempts to get out of that cycle, drugs and alcohol too...like ive been ashamed that i have very limited interests, but ones that I hold very dear. Im 52, diagnosed 3 years and am only just understanding this at a deeper level. Its slowly making sense to me. Im thinking about going away somewhere for a few days on my own for the first time ever this summer...but the question im asking myself is why put myself through so much stress planning and getting used to where I am when I get there?..getting hot under the collar about getting lost or letting my guard down....its some fucked up shit between my ears lol

I remember walking on my toes and I would pretend I was a ballerina. When I was around 7 years old it got painful to walk on my toes so I stopped doing it. I didn't outgrow spinning in circles until years later.

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Anxiety and tightness, selfishness and cowardice. It all stems from childhood, when your mum did not teach you to forget your little selfish requirements.

Not only toe walking…walking on the outer edges of feet (supination) is also a common gait difference related to autism. If you do this you’ll be able to tell by looking at the bottom of your shoes. If the outer side of each shoe is more worn than heel and toe you have a supinated gait.

I still walk on my toes often

Very enjoyable thank you

It is biomechanically unsound to heel-toe walk. Forefoot at the contact phase is correct human gait for both walking and running.

I have ADHD and like to sleep in the walk in closet or in the dormer windows when I feel overwhelmed. The world feels over stimulating alot of the time so hiding in a small space helps.

I have solved the puzzle you put in your thumbnail, and it is like so: Autism = Authoritarianism

this is so true about the way i feel when I'm listening to music in my headphones in public and i start dancing a bit like everyone else can hear it too but actually I do look very odd haha

I don’t toe walk, but I wear slides indoors at all times except in my bedroom because I hate the feeling of dirty floors touching my feet.

Noice! I've always enjoyed compression, even more now that I understand my autistic brain and body and their needs. I'm gonna try it. I imagine it's like a portable weighted blanket. 😂

You lost me with the House reference 😬

I play the same games over and over and play the same CZcams videos over and over my same songs I love and used to watch the same show (full house) until they got rid of it on Hulu

Why do I watch the same few videos everyday on CZcams ohh this video explains that

I cannot thank you enough for sharing this. I have never been diagnosed and only recently have started to understand who I am. Your videos are a goldmine of ideas and feelings I have struggled to articulate my entire life. I really appreciate you putting this content out there, you have done an amazing job with this channel! I hope you are well and wish you all the best in whatever you set out to accomplish!

I do it when I am moving slowly or when I feel at ease such as indoors or though a park However I take large strides heel to toe when I have somewhere to be. I tend to toe walk when paying attention to my surroundings is a good way to put it.

This resonated with me so much, I don’t have words to describe it. But thank you for sharing yours

I have this tightness thing really really bad actually. It’s a huge problem. I hurt myself gripping things too hard. My body hurts so bad. I will notice that I’m tensing something and concentrate on relaxing that only to discover another area is tensing so then I focus on relaxing that and then another area is tensing and so then I’ll try to relax and discover that the first place is tensing again. And it does feel also like anxiety, though not about anything, but like i have to hold on to something for dear life or i might fall into an eternal vortex... I used to have more of like a restless leg syndrome. I had to be moving constantly, even in bed, or it was an awful feeling. Lots of years of meditation practice and I can hold still now, but then I will be doing something really weird with my fists or my feet or my butt cheeks or jaw, or holding my arm in a really weird position. It’s so difficult to control. It’s impossible at this point. Also, sometimes I toe walk, but mostly I don’t anymore. I worked really hard in high school to walk heel to toe. I focus on that and often feel really uneven when I walk. I used to drag my toes and ruin my shoes as a kid.

Hi, I have Asperger's and it's interesting hearing about this because I pretty much don't do this unless I have a cramp in my foot. I didn't know this is a thing the other autistic people might do.

Thank you. ❤