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Adults with ASC - Walking

IntenseWorld

Do any of you other adults with ASC find when you are walking your legs (and even arms) feel sort of awkward, like you are walking too consciously and it can feel like your limbs are not even yours sometimes as it doesn't feel natural walking?

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  • I had a bad episode of this the other day, I became so hyper-aware of my legs I felt like I was walking strangely and over-emphasising the roll of my feet on the ground.  I have in the past been told I walked like this particular character from an advert that walked as if it had no skeletal structure, or at least was sort of floppy, with a rolling walk.

    And with arms, it's like they don't want to swing like other peoples', they'd rather just hang down limp and they feel awkward, like they're in the way or something, and I have consciously made myself swing them but it doesn't feel entirely natural and one swings less than the other.

    I do think many of us are sort of out of tune with co-ordination, and when you couple that with balance issues we're an accident waiting to happen!

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  • I had a bad episode of this the other day, I became so hyper-aware of my legs I felt like I was walking strangely and over-emphasising the roll of my feet on the ground.  I have in the past been told I walked like this particular character from an advert that walked as if it had no skeletal structure, or at least was sort of floppy, with a rolling walk.

    And with arms, it's like they don't want to swing like other peoples', they'd rather just hang down limp and they feel awkward, like they're in the way or something, and I have consciously made myself swing them but it doesn't feel entirely natural and one swings less than the other.

    I do think many of us are sort of out of tune with co-ordination, and when you couple that with balance issues we're an accident waiting to happen!

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