A young woman in the hospital lobby was having trouble getting her son, about four, to mind what she said. She is deathly skinny, slightly Goth - the boy in profane black T-shirt, already hyperkinetic. "Don't walk on your tiptoes! Heels first!"
Seems like misplaced priorities. At a minimum, what in the world is inappropriate about a four-year-old boy experimenting with different ways of walking just because they are fun, and he is sick of sitting still in a hospital lobby? A waste of energy to get him to stop that.
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I would assume that he was not "experimenting", but rather that he was a toe-walker. My aspie niece had surgery to try to correct her toe-walking. I remember teaching myself to walk heel-first, not because anybody mentioned it, but because I saw that was how everyone else walked. I was desperately trying to fit in. Never did.
At the age of four, he's probably figured out long since that there's absolutely no percentage in doing what she tells him.
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