I'm not walking funny

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:30 am

How many of you do this:

Is it a dyspraxic thing or just a Gregs a bit odd thing?

square peg · Post by **square peg** » Mon May 28, 2007 1:01 pm

I used to try hard not to walk on the cracks between pavestones as a child. Not out of superstition, just because it didn't seem 'right' otherwise. I imagine it's more to do with obsessive compulsions than dyspraxia (not that I'm suggesting you have OCD, but most people experience some level of compulsion, especially children). I lurched from obsession to obsession as a child, and it probably did at least border on OCD, so I know a little about it and you're really not that 'odd' or unusual.

If it causes you anxiety it might be worth breaking the habit though. Systematic desensitisation works, like with phobias.

Greg · Post by **Greg** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:13 am

Nah, I'd have said if that was the case. I'm a psychologist, I'm carefull throwing around phrases like depression and OCD ;)

I'm fairly sure that this is just a regular oddity. Sometimes I don't notice to do it and sometimes I fail (by not noticing a drain cover or something) and it doesn't bother me anymore than say...losing a game of chess.

Lucy_Rush · Post by **Lucy_Rush** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:43 am

i always step over shadows, for some reason. its just one of those strange little things i've always done for some bazaar reason.

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Wed May 30, 2007 1:32 pm

Dyspraxic brains are wired to recognise patterns and shapes. Its nothing to worry about. I do it too $\:D/$

Post by **Pooky** » Wed May 30, 2007 5:54 pm

I tend to count the steps/stairs I walk down.

Dani · Post by **Dani** » Wed May 30, 2007 7:53 pm

Pooky wrote:I tend to count the steps/stairs I walk down.

Me too. I find that if I look away for one moment I nearly break my neck falling down them. I get bored looking at them so I count them to take my mind off the boring task. Gives me something to do and focuses my attention on the stairs so I don't fall down them. I used to fall down stairs regularly as a child.

FREEFALL · Post by **FREEFALL** » Sun Jun 10, 2007 9:43 am

i count steps too, funnely enough it's how i learned my times tables

James · Post by **James** » Tue Jun 12, 2007 2:42 pm

I always used to miss the pavement cracks and walk on every other slab in a zigzag pattern... and then just stopped one day (I guess I started walking in places without pavement slabs all of a sudden!)

Shaun · Post by **Shaun** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:42 am

Wow, that's exactly what I did as a young kid. I always avoided the cracks in the pavement and did all other sorts of weird things when walking home from school. "Okay, the bomb won't blow if I hop onto the red sections of the pavement whenever possible."

Post by **Shadwell** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 6:29 am

me, and my brother used to hit the other black and blue!! not quite the same way, but the drains marked FH was free hit!! and the drains marked SWV I think it was, was Slap the vermit!!

so yeah used to walk really funny as a kid!!