Depends. How are you eating? Are you meticulously separating your food and eating it in a particular order? Do you break apart your tator tots into tiny bits, or do you pull the chocolate chips out of your muffins to eat them separately? Maybe you eat all the green veggie straws, then all the yellows, then all the orange ones, never deviating from that pattern?
It’s fascinating looking around the lunch room in a school for autistic children.
I think people like to take any symptom related to autism and just claim that anything similar is also a symptom. Like, “autistic people do X a lot so if you ever did X you’re probably autistic”. Not how it works.
That is simply not correct.
The development happened when humanity started walking upright. It had nothing to do with shoes.
So it is not more natural.
I do this but only when I’m wearing sandals or am barefoot, if I’m in my boots I walking notably more on my heel. Seriously I have to swap the padding on them every once in awhile because I bore a hole in the damned things. I think it’s a balance thing.
i wonder if it’s why i am suffering from near crippling mortons neroma now. basically did the dinosaur walk for a long time, played DDR like that. still have short ligaments in my legs.
Basically anything someone divergent does is instantly unique to them and needs to be screamed all over Lemmy as their personality.
In reality, people walk on their toes, heels or the balls of their feet. They often switch depending on context (walk on your heels in a hurry, in the balls of your feet rather than stomping etc.) No one really cares or feels special about it.
Huh and here I just did it cause my house was creaky and my step-dad was a light sleeper. If we woke him we would get screamed at or worse. Walking toe/heel made me quieter in the dark.
Yeah, you kinda have to say it. Some of us are old and out of touch…
Autism
How come?
A common quirk of autism is putting pressure on the fronts of your feet (though rarely as high as this) while walking.
I do it a bit, but the only sign that I am is that my shoes wear down on the front faster than other people, while the heel generally stays intact.
I really need Lemmy to stop pointing out things I didn’t notice I have been doing forever and then telling me it’s an autism thing.
Do you eat food… Cause its a known fact that 100 % of autistic people eat food!
I know some who forget to do that
Eat? Autism.
Forget to eat? Also autism.
No forgetting to eat is ADHD
No no, nonononono… They meant “eat autism”. Like, the slang.
Hey! :(
I think it is more common among autists
Is that some you? Have you eaten since then?
Depends. How are you eating? Are you meticulously separating your food and eating it in a particular order? Do you break apart your tator tots into tiny bits, or do you pull the chocolate chips out of your muffins to eat them separately? Maybe you eat all the green veggie straws, then all the yellows, then all the orange ones, never deviating from that pattern?
It’s fascinating looking around the lunch room in a school for autistic children.
I think people like to take any symptom related to autism and just claim that anything similar is also a symptom. Like, “autistic people do X a lot so if you ever did X you’re probably autistic”. Not how it works.
every once in a while I finally see a post that I don’t relate to, and I cling to those hard
I’m enjoying it, I feel like I’ve finally found my people
And why is that?
There can be a few reasons. Sensory, coordination, neurological… Usually it simply feels more natural.
…pretending to have digitigrade legs…
to walk like animals who walk on their toes
I don’t walk like this, but it is more natural. We would walk like that barefoot. Heel first is a shoe thing
Heel first walking is entirely normal on most flat-ish surfaces.
Heel first running quickly becomes painful on anything but soft grass, if you don’t have modern shoes.
Yes, I confused it with something I saw about running
That is simply not correct. The development happened when humanity started walking upright. It had nothing to do with shoes. So it is not more natural.
You are right. I was also talking about which part of the foot hits the ground first
Never thought about that thanks for educagting :3
that explains why I keep getting wear on the fronts of my shoes holy shit
Do you have a source/name for that? I would love to read up on this
Just “autistic toe walking”. I myself have no sources, sadly, but it’s widely reported and documented.
Thanks!!
My shoes get worn down similarly because I have high arches and long ass toes, “tingers”. The middle arch never touches the ground.
Finding the right shoes suck ass. I’ll get holes in the top and bottom of the front unless I have proper arch support.
Plus side I’m very silent when I walk because there is less contact. So I’ve spent a lifetime scaring the shit out of people on accident.
Depending on where you live, your insurance might cover (semi) orthopedic insoles.
I should check that out. Would be nice to wear some fun shoes. The arch support ones are always boring.
I have a habit of sneaking up on people like this, too; and yeah, not all toe-walking is related to autism, just as not all autistic people do this.
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I do this but only when I’m wearing sandals or am barefoot, if I’m in my boots I walking notably more on my heel. Seriously I have to swap the padding on them every once in awhile because I bore a hole in the damned things. I think it’s a balance thing.
Toe walking is a fairly common childhood autistic trait and one of the main things researchers associated with it early on.
I even ran on my toes, never was diagnosed. It’s funny (not actually) reaching adulthood and everything start making sense.
Running on the balls of your feet is a sprinting technique. It’s what a lot of people do. So not a definitive trait of autism.
i wonder if it’s why i am suffering from near crippling mortons neroma now. basically did the dinosaur walk for a long time, played DDR like that. still have short ligaments in my legs.
Also good for distance running … Or just all running. The impacts absorb in soft tissue when the knee is bent instead of in the knee joint.
Zero technique, I just liked the dinosaur walk. And actual (extinct) dinosaurs, btw.
Basically anything someone divergent does is instantly unique to them and needs to be screamed all over Lemmy as their personality.
In reality, people walk on their toes, heels or the balls of their feet. They often switch depending on context (walk on your heels in a hurry, in the balls of your feet rather than stomping etc.) No one really cares or feels special about it.
Huh and here I just did it cause my house was creaky and my step-dad was a light sleeper. If we woke him we would get screamed at or worse. Walking toe/heel made me quieter in the dark.