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Its to increase posterior chain strength in her calves and plantar fascia to help with explosiveness as spider-woman.
Wait, does neurodivergence cause short calf muscles?
Walk on toes quieter than stomping around
Also ✨trauma✨!
Tiptoeing around your parents so they don’t notice you 🥰 (but I am also the 'tism)
And holding a breath while you’re quickly scamping across the room.
Yeah, you kinda have to say it. Some of us are old and out of touch…
Toe walking is a fairly common childhood autistic trait and one of the main things researchers associated with it early on.
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.
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.
Hey! :(
I think it is more common among autists
Is that some you? Have you eaten since then?
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
that explains why I keep getting wear on the fronts of my shoes holy shit
non-ND people learn soon enough to not walk on their heels after living in a multi-storey house for a month. but sure, if you want to believe it’s unusual, i can’t stop you.
Man, even that was a sign!? Is everything I’ve ever done just textbook autism?
If you’re as old as me the only thing books ever mentioned on [behavior now correlated with autism] is that some kids do it but they’ll “grow out of it.”
Not necessarily a sign; just a common quirk to have with the condition.
Not all toe-walking is related to autism: it can also be musculoskeletal or related to other psychological conditions; and at the same time, not all autistic people walk like this.
And why is that?
There can be a few reasons. Sensory, coordination, neurological… Usually it simply feels more natural.
…pretending to have digitigrade legs…
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.
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.
Never thought about that thanks for educagting :3
Furry
TIL 196 hates furries
Oh wow, and?
I think the person just listed another reason, walking somewhat like a digitigrade creature.
(I see their comment just got downvoted so far.)
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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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!!
Is there more to it than just Spiderverse Gwen having a background in ballet and the artists coding her mannerisms around that (e.g. her costume using ballet shoes)?
It’s an autism/ADHD coded behavior.
At some point I should get evaluated. I could fill some bingo grid about adhd meme. :3
Now you’ve got me feeling self conscious about how often I walk around tiptoed for balance…
Also, there are serious textural references to her being trans, and well…
Let’s say I’m aware that there are neurotypical trans people out there but there’s definitely a certain correlation.
I don’t think the trans themes in the movies(the color of her dimension mirroring the trans flag/etc) are literal, more that her journey is an allegory for the trans journey.
Her arc involves discovery herself, losing friends, hiding who she is from her parent, being abandoned when her true self is revealed, finding a found family, and finally reconciling with her parent when they finally accept her.
Its a trans arc, but is more shared experience that makes it roots clear than a literal statement of gender.
There is some lorebook tug of war to be sure, but if you take Across the Spiderverse as a stand alone work and don’t consider any of the public back pedaling after the fact, even the literal interpretation is defensible.
More defensible than “she’s def autistic because the ballerina character is en pointe in a few panels”. Yet here we are.
That said: cis or trans, ND or NT, spiderverse Gwen Stacy is the best thing to happen to the Spider-Man franchise in over a decade.
considering she literally has a trans pride flag hanging above the door in her bedroom, i’m gonna say it’s a little bit more than just allegory
TIL another reason to get myself tested for that.
Who knows, maybe I could upgrade my ADHD diagnosis to AuDHD.Or as I think of it since having read it around here, ADHD GoldTM
tippy toes to avoid being loud even when alone at home ~
I feel like this is where ASD and CPTSD meet
dunno if them letters got a thing to do with it. being silent is just a nice thing I believe—
buuuuut iguess it can have a thing to do with it… fair-
its like, no one can percieve you and you cant ask anything or else you will Die instantly
yeye kinda mhm yes
