What is the aspie gait?

[HansieMom]

Can you tell a person has AS just by watching them walk? I ran across the term 'aspie gait', googled it and didn't get an answer. Some mentioned slouching, walking fast, or kids bouncing when they walk and getting teased for it by the time they were teenagers.

My DD doesn't run, she gallops like a horse.

My ds ,11, mild AS, does very same as yours , Wigglybeezer. He walks along looking at ground and then breaks into a canter. Overall he has a rather stiff gait !

Just realised , yodelay.., there appears to be a recurring equine theme running through these threads. Whats that all about?

Not sure penneyann , if you find out...do let me know !

lol @ equine theme, i guess just best way i can describe how ds runs with same foot first each time it must be a common traint i suppose and the looking at the floor a lot and helicopter arms or the op regimental arms at side usually they seem to be one or other.

trait even

my ds isnt diagnosed with anything but he does alot of what as been described on here... he does a strange skip, like hes playing horses and does this more when we are walking on the street. tiptoes when running, and he does shuffle and walk with tiny steps alot. i'll have to watch his arms but i know as a child i did the helicopter thing lol xx

I cantered a lot as a child but I was actually riding an imaginary horse at the time!

oh just thought of something else ds does when hes walking and running he sort of leans foward alot, like he wants to go faster than what his legs can go does this when you hold his hand too, his legs are normal, body leant foward x

it's really intresting to read all the above posts my son as a baby/toddler never cruised or stood he crawled and then suddenly walked he never held on to things for support or anything he skipped a stage but even now he tip toes when he is bare foot or with socks hmmmm and i did raise concerns of his development from when he was 14mths but fobbed of by gp and only diagnosed with asd when 3 yrs4mths

have nothing to add, but just wanted to make this thread come up in Threads I Am On when I am less tired and able to read, tomorrow...

I am aspie with many many gifts. but i never tell anyone except my wife , because i feel i would treated badly .
when I read about the aspie gait , then I began trying to walk 'normally' so people would not recognize me being an aspie by my gait. In walmart , My wife(an angel) asked me why i am walking like i am in the army -- i said i thought i was walking more normally so would blend in better with regular humans . i was not trying to walk like i was in the army ..... she laughed and said no my dear, you stand out more when you try to change you gait . Just walk like you normally do .
Well , we both found humour in the moment .
I see my aspergers as a gift .