No not really, crawling hurts my knees, I am quite comfortable with walking though I do prefer to run.
Something about the way I walk seems to make it obvious that I have a degree of motor clumsiness. I don't know what it is though.
Sometimes I knee walk if I'm already sitting on the carpet. If I wanted to get up the stairs really fast, I'd just crawl up.
It never hurts my knees because I never wear shorts due to sensory issues.
When I'm running over rough surfaces (like a really rocky slope) or up stairs, I do prefer to lean far over and use my hands in a kind of "loping" (I certainly wouldn't call it crawling!).
However, I'm usually fine with walking, though I do get back pains.
I either skip or walk on my toes. Normal walking just doesn't allow me to use enough energy. People probably think I'm a swaggerer.
I walk a lot, and fast. Good posture unless my backpack's being annoying. I'm long-legged enough that I can keep pace with anyone without even noticing that I'm moving. Usually, I take about 4 steps to every 5 they take.
I'll often start skipping or running (sometimes with my arms stretched out like an airplane) from a normal walk for no particular reason. Just high spirits, I guess.
Walking doesn't hurt, though, and I actually have an unusual amount of stamina.
I've been told I walk as though I'm going to confront somebody. But I like walking; I can walk just about forever (until I get blisters on my feet, anyway), without getting tired.
Depending where I am and what the flooring is like I crawl up stairs too when at home (not on these stairs as they are too hard for my knees & not very long), and when on my own a lot of the time I walk sideways or in circles to get where I want (like a dance I suppose). When I am tired I walk close to the wall at home and either run my hand along it or tap it regularly.
Im knocked knee and pigeoned toed, so i walk a lil funny, i usually like to run though/ (when im at home i run everywhere, and i crawl up the stairs)
More ways I walk:
- With a hunch in my back, I step hard, with a rather high bounce in my step. I like to walk like this to jingle my chain pants if I'm wearing them.
- I love running in my chain pants. =3 Because then they jingle a LOT, and I'm really happy.
- With a bounce in my step at a tempo of 120.
- Very fast series of small steps. I walk like this to get out of people's way, dodge about a thick crowd, or to pretend to be freaked out.
- Side gallops. I find this to be the fastest way to get somewhere, although it takes a bit of energy.
- Like Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Trivisky IV, with long strides and arms swinging widely outwards. To be funny.
Sometimes when I cross a street I walk like Groucho Marx.
that being...how?
With knees bent as half the way sitting down. It allows me to take longer steps at a faster rate without actually running. It's possible that the style could be called "duck walk" also. They're all gone now the Marx Brothers. Btw; have you read the pm I sent you?
Like the way Peter (who is an AFFer, by the way) draws himself in his comics? (Warning: language and adult themes, as if you haven't seen them on this board already)
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/bunker9.htm
http://www.bentoandstarchky.com/rapcomic/rap4.htm
Yes, but more hunched over forward. It's like I would fall forward if I didn't move forward.
Oh, I used to sometimes walk like that when I was very little because I was too tired or lazy to stand upright.
I walk fine, though I prefer to walk fast.
Sometimes I swing my arms slightly like I'm marching but that comes from being in Cadets.
Xen.
Have you ever spoken to an Occupational therapist about it. Hrick tells me he always feels like he is sinking into the earth when he walks. Kind of feels like walking around in mud I imagine. He says he sees his feet touch ground but the "tactile feel" of it is delayed. He has a lot of sensory issues related to body sense , ie. feeling where you are in space, feeling the gravitational pull of the earth on your body (this is why a lot of autists slouch with poor posture, by the way) , registering vestibular, kinesthetic and proprioceptic information. Anyhow, I'm wondering if what you experience, or physically feel when you walk might be explained in similar manner. May not help you feel any better physically, but you would at least know the reason. I know for hrick, just knowing why things are the way they are for him does sometimes help him, at least intellectually and emotionally. Hope this helps.
Mom of hrick
P.S. Actually there are activities that can actually help develop the sensory integration in this area.
People tell me I walk with a strange gait, but I think its largely due to having one knee smashed in in childhood.
I do the whole all-fours-up-stairs thing though.