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  • Опубликовано: 17 сен 2022
  • Have you ever heard of postural sway?⁠

    Credit: @savetimeshan on TikTok

Комментарии • 112

  • @pearl-may
    @pearl-may 10 месяцев назад +94

    If postural sway is a problem, how come it feels like dancing, reduces the amount of abrupt changes and therefore physical stress, and achieves everything that can be acheived without a lot of sway? To me, it just indicates that somebody's in the zone.

    • @Eboni-J
      @Eboni-J 3 месяца назад +14

      Exactly!!! It's just a more efficient and entertaining way to get where you're going 💃🏾

  • @MrBeklager
    @MrBeklager 4 месяца назад +7

    Its more of being in the zone and having fun

  • @kikiseo
    @kikiseo Год назад +47

    How does swaying relate in any way to "not feeling good enough"?? If someone's rocking side to side, it's likely a stimming thing.

    • @Reesispiecis
      @Reesispiecis Год назад +5

      If youre not confident enough to believe you are worthy to take up space, you never want to be in anybody’s way but also physical timing can be off for neurodivergents - so your staying out of the way but also your timing/rhythm is prob different from the people you’re dodging…plus add in the anxiety of ppl thinking your weird and in the way all the time. And its not just ppl’s way but like dodging the table corner, dont knock anything over all at the same time you need to go fast cause you’re brain is moving fast.

  • @Anonymous-cb9xw
    @Anonymous-cb9xw Год назад +98

    As someone who walks in this particular way… mentally, it’s a ‘shortest route’ concept. Minor dodging of obstacles through bodily manipulation help maintain the shortest route concept. With that mindset, my peripheral is also more attuned as to AVOID obstacles through such bodily manipulation.
    In turn, unexpected events that rapidly approach me (even while standing still) are more avoidable. I can peripherally see an incoming event and contort just enough (it tends to be under-exaggerated movement due to the ‘shortest path’ concept) to where I can avoid that collision. Primarily for effects of safety. And yes, avoidance as well.

    • @andrewmackenzie4635
      @andrewmackenzie4635 11 месяцев назад +6

      I had just opened the comments and as 32 year old man with ADHD who has moved like this my whole life I was about to throw out pretty much this explanation. ADHD has its ups and downs and this is definitely one of the ups, I find it to be a major advantage for the exact reasons you specify. I get everywhere just that little bit quicker and having a toddler who is currently all about launching anything at anyone I certainly get through the day with least damage

    • @votenanocratic
      @votenanocratic 10 месяцев назад +3

      This, exactly. I'm controlling that movement when I do it and it's not happening when I'm not avoiding obstacles.

    • @RMLLcrazy
      @RMLLcrazy 10 месяцев назад +4

      Exactly... I'm not diagnosed with ADHD but I walk like this around my house. I'm just cutting corners, or so distracted in my head I'm about to hit into something and need to dodge. Only issue I ever had with this was that sometimes I dodge the door and my harm gets stuck on the handle... Hurts like a motherfucker.

    • @JMPschool1
      @JMPschool1 10 месяцев назад +1

      I'm glad you said that. In my head it's always been about efficiency & least possible effort, and of my many common ADHD traits, clumsiness is not one. I may bump my hip or catch my sleeve on a handle on occasion, but I think that is specifically a product of walking in this particular way along with a tendency to be paying attention to something else while walking. It is interesting that for some with ADHD, the walk could be linked to coordination, and for others it is the drive to be efficient. I also think maintaining fluidity in movement by swaying instead of changing pace is satisfying to our brains. Even though most of the things I do for the sake of "efficiency", my spouse thinks are completely the opposite, at least I don't step on every out of place obstacle on the floor 😂 so I'd say that's a win for me

    • @japandrew
      @japandrew 8 месяцев назад +2

      This ☝️☝️☝️.
      For me it's more like a matrix walk short cut, than some kind of low self esteem thing.
      It's more like overcoming the tedium of walking around something with plenty of room to spare ("boooriiiing") by gamifying the shortest route.
      The occasional banging into stuff is more like trying to do that shortest route on auto-pilot while thinking about too much other stuff, rather than poor coordination.

  • @GlenTylerJennings
    @GlenTylerJennings 11 месяцев назад +14

    Those clips from tiktok are not what postural sway is. At all. People people are focused and in a hurry and don't make the decision to go around something they just move around the obstacle in a smooth dance-like fashion. A lot of marching band kids do that too because you're taught to pivot parts of your body to move around things without turning your whole body around. People with ADHD may do this more frequently because they're hyperfocused on a task and their minds don't process changing the path quickly enough and instead shift their body at the last second to prevent collisions.
    Postural sway is when your body is swaying around because your balance is off, it's not intentional. It can be when you're standing still and you can see someone leaning back to front kind of shifting their weight from their heels to their toes in order to counterbalance the sway, or it can be side to side. Their bodies just sway a little.

    • @llamalluvv
      @llamalluvv 4 месяца назад +2

      I have a theory about marching band kids and neurodivergence. 😂

  • @frankshameful3568
    @frankshameful3568 Год назад +123

    Why is it a bad thing to walk like that? I do it a lot but it seems to really shine through when I have a task I’m really focused on completing. It feels more flowing and efficient than to have to redirect my whole body. I work a factory job that’s pretty repetitive so it’s easy for me to check out mentally and let my body do the task. Like autopilot almost. I do feel like I’m not enough or “worthy” some times but I don’t get the correlation

    • @nortonman5238
      @nortonman5238 Год назад +10

      As a fellow adhd sufferer (?) I don't feel like I suffer lmao
      But anywho, I don't think it's a bad thing. Just part of who we are I guess

    • @T.Hawk25
      @T.Hawk25 Год назад +26

      I think it’s cool. I feel like neo dodging bullets 😂

    • @farmer_joe_
      @farmer_joe_ Год назад +27

      Because the person who made this video makes money from telling people they're wrong for existing.

    • @thehousespouse
      @thehousespouse 9 месяцев назад +1

      It's not bad. However, it can lead to more falls and collisions.

    • @userD2
      @userD2 9 месяцев назад +3

      This is not about being "bad" or "good" it's just a marker of ADHD, some people can crash into things because of it more often, fall and get injured. But if you are comfortable with that - there's nothing wrong for you or with you, that's just an extra symptom of ADHD for your doctor to notice.

  • @drtopherdds4926
    @drtopherdds4926 5 месяцев назад +8

    ADHDer here with postural sway, yup.
    Self esteem issues and anxiety, nope... nada.
    Nothing could be further from the truth for me.

  • @LispyJesus
    @LispyJesus 11 месяцев назад +20

    I do this constantly. But in reality it’s nothing super deep. I don’t pay attention to where I’m walking well enough and am always about to run into shit and that’s how I avoid it. I’m focused on something else or in my head.

    • @cryingwatercolours8127
      @cryingwatercolours8127 3 месяца назад

      yeah see i think if u have adhd/autism or are just more clumsy you do a Me
      basically what you said but i don’t avoid anything i almost always collide with whatever i’m trying to avoid with my hips LMAO

  • @artosbear
    @artosbear Год назад +13

    😮‍💨 don't fuccin pathologize the way I walk goddamn.

  • @samrobinson2137
    @samrobinson2137 Год назад +22

    In high-school it seemed cool, I would get in these hyper focused states eyes straight forward but moving and weaving around people pretty easily.

  • @base99498
    @base99498 5 месяцев назад +3

    I have swagger and confidence in my adhd sway. It’s how I move

  • @brianmathews5358
    @brianmathews5358 3 месяца назад +4

    This guys using too much executive functioning Brain power to diagnosis our sway lol

  • @annadushenkina3512
    @annadushenkina3512 2 месяца назад +3

    I can offer a different idea: if you walk fast (like a lot of us ADHD people do), this dodging and weaving is almost inevitable. That's how you avoid bumping into things (most of the time) without slowing down.

  • @MkMaster13
    @MkMaster13 Год назад +22

    I have an ADHD walk where I walk very stiff and my neck sticks forward a bit. I walk back and forth in front of the mirror to check and adjust my posture, but when I try to correct it, my walk looks even more unusual.

    • @ChaoTiC.4rti3.
      @ChaoTiC.4rti3. 7 месяцев назад

      Ahhhh ME TOOOO I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE 😭😭😭

  • @troubled-sir-3419
    @troubled-sir-3419 Год назад +7

    I thought of it as a superpower, now I just feel bad

    • @RainVine
      @RainVine 11 месяцев назад +7

      You are a superhuman and it's a gift, don't listen to this! Dance through life, be free!

    • @sufferingincorporatedtm1781
      @sufferingincorporatedtm1781 11 месяцев назад +7

      he's just trying to profit of off your sadness, don't listen to this buzzkill

  • @stephanieschott7213
    @stephanieschott7213 11 месяцев назад +3

    It's my ninja skills 😎

  • @terrapinflyer273
    @terrapinflyer273 4 месяца назад +2

    So we're often just too busy thinking about inferiorities and other daily stresses (big and small - sometimes hyperfixated on them) that we sort of forget that walls, tables, and chairs exist? 🤔

  • @catpoke9557
    @catpoke9557 4 месяца назад +4

    We're just moving last second. That's all it is. It's taking the path of least resistance to avoid an obstacle we either didn't notice or only subconsciously noticed and therefore had to dodge. No point shifting your whole trajectory when you can just tilt your torso out of the way.

    • @zperdek
      @zperdek Месяц назад

      We are like water flow.

    • @catpoke9557
      @catpoke9557 Месяц назад

      @@zperdek True! That's a really good way of describing it. Personally I find it very efficient like water- until I don't get the 'last second' notice and simply bump into the object instead, lol!

  • @chicolee1227
    @chicolee1227 Год назад +5

    Bro I do this cause it's fun and once I'm on the roll I'm on the roll I don't like stopping for anything at work I'm always jumping over conveyors running under them it keeps me focused I feel like

  • @SaphireSystrine
    @SaphireSystrine 3 месяца назад

    I do this because familiar transit through my house is low-dopamine and I'd rather get to my destination as fast as possible. Swaying around objects feels faster than going around them.

  • @scrubadubduck
    @scrubadubduck 10 месяцев назад +2

    I'm a very confident person and still have adhd postural sway .... I don't think the two are connected ... also why fix it?? My partner and friends finds it adorable

  • @shadia2000
    @shadia2000 Год назад +4

    Is this why I keep hitting my legs or arms on things and getting a cut or bruise that I discover way later and don't even know how I got it??? Hmm....

  • @LostAndEaten
    @LostAndEaten 2 месяца назад

    I just keep replaying the nyooom part 😂😂😂

  • @Tarlungs666
    @Tarlungs666 11 месяцев назад +3

    I've done this my whole life and thought it was just a weird quirk I had

  • @Susichea
    @Susichea 8 месяцев назад +1

    Partially true cause they walk like this because they can’t waist time getting to what they were so focusing doing

  • @calebwilliams8864
    @calebwilliams8864 3 месяца назад +2

    Nah I've been doing this since I was little 😂. Plus it's like a dance almost a trance state when I'm trying to get somewhere on foot. Moat of the time I'm just focused on something else and want to get there as swiftly as possible.😎

  • @adamcrane4071
    @adamcrane4071 6 месяцев назад +10

    i just wanna get somewhere with the least amount of steps. especially if i'm focused on doing something, i just wanna get it done. couldn't imagine taking the extra 3 steps and 2 pivots to get there like a sane human being 😂

  • @rjflippo
    @rjflippo 10 месяцев назад +2

    Have you ever walked in a crowd and bumped into people and apologized non-stop to the point of burn out and yelling out of frustration to mask the tears…
    I have embraced my walk and have salsa music in my head as a swing them hips and twist my core. People have no idea I was besides them until I am speeding away from them.

  • @Elvenboadicea
    @Elvenboadicea 2 месяца назад

    I walk into everything.

  • @user-lw2xk2pq7p
    @user-lw2xk2pq7p Месяц назад

    Oh my God. I totally do that! I'm a professional line cook and I speed walk through people and through corners just like that. I don't like touching people, and so I can move through a crowded bar the exact same way and not touch hardly anybody. and I always thought it was just me

  • @venti2569
    @venti2569 3 месяца назад +1

    I like my postural sway

  • @ronalby5957
    @ronalby5957 24 дня назад

    I thought I was efficiently moving around something by slightly adjusting my body instead of totally shifting directions to go around something

  • @goreobsessed2308
    @goreobsessed2308 2 месяца назад

    You say a problem i say a great skill to master

  • @Kira_Kittyboi
    @Kira_Kittyboi 3 месяца назад +2

    Honestly anyone who thinks walking like that is a problem they just don’t get it, we get it tho we get it 😎

  • @sithlordsoup
    @sithlordsoup 9 месяцев назад

    I do this cause I memorize tight spaces lmao

  • @LostieTrekieTechie
    @LostieTrekieTechie 11 месяцев назад +4

    "problem"?
    Nah we walk more intentionally and dynamically.
    Not self esteem.

  • @pietrofalcowork98
    @pietrofalcowork98 20 дней назад

    Antidote to that is to learn how to walk in nature or in a river bed between the stones. As my dharma teacher used to say: look at where you are going! I see this going worse since smarphones while walking or driving

  • @ArtyMartyD
    @ArtyMartyD 2 месяца назад

    I always thought I was doing this just to avoid hitting shit.

  • @batrickpateman2086
    @batrickpateman2086 9 месяцев назад +1

    That's why dudes were freaking out when #metoo was a bigger deal and started talking about the pence rule in the workplace.
    Forgive me for digging up that ancient history.

  • @cremebrulee4759
    @cremebrulee4759 5 месяцев назад

    I don't have postural sway, as shown in the video, but I do tend to run into things. Maybe that's why. Makes sense to me.

  • @vickigreen9545
    @vickigreen9545 7 месяцев назад +1

    Nooooo we’re just used to rolling with the punches and expecting the worst … and moving the least we have to do we can conserve the energy to deal with the above

  • @sixthsky5376
    @sixthsky5376 Год назад +1

    I do that because when my
    Mind is racing i often start walking with out checking to see if my path is clear so i sway and roll over my feet staggering to a clear path before zooming around again.

  • @MrChancebandit
    @MrChancebandit 3 месяца назад

    So officer hear me out .

  • @kristoferkrus
    @kristoferkrus 3 месяца назад +1

    Why is postural sway a “problem”?

  • @goofball2228
    @goofball2228 11 месяцев назад +1

    I heel walk and flap my arms a lot when I walk. It’s so frustrating.

  • @ImARealWerewolf
    @ImARealWerewolf 10 месяцев назад +2

    I recently learned about the postural sway from a Tumblr post. I'm autistic and I walk like that because it comes automatically/naturally and I also dont wanna bump into things lmao rofl. It has nothing to do with whats mentioned in this vid

  • @Reesispiecis
    @Reesispiecis Год назад +2

    In my case i think its more anxiety and stay out of the way (like dont take up space) and also ducking others who dont pay attention (im short an have gotten elbowed in the chest too many times) And also my body cant walk fast enough to keep up with my brain (and im not a runner anymore) so it totally feels like a boxer or ninja or something…also not to break things. And once i started meditating and doing mindfulness techs (i didnt know thats what i was doing) i slowed everything down enough that i dont do it as much. And dont need to bc there are less mistakes and accidents

  • @cassjr17
    @cassjr17 8 месяцев назад +1

    That's kind of scary...

  • @CAZruns
    @CAZruns Год назад +2

    Errr no I just can’t walk normally even if I tried my hardest lol

  • @caitemby
    @caitemby Месяц назад

    "be aware of how your body moves in space." my guy, I... literally can't? that's part of the ADHD thing??

  • @ticketforepic4429
    @ticketforepic4429 9 месяцев назад +1

    What are you going off about? Postural sway is the only benefit of ADHD I've discovered as of yet. I'm told I walk like a runway model.

  • @epicdroid1218
    @epicdroid1218 5 месяцев назад

    I thought I was cool, it turns out I have a condition

  • @Eboni-J
    @Eboni-J 3 месяца назад

    I was a dancer for years and killed it on the runway. It's how the cool people walk through the house. No need to "fix" it and make us all boring, sir.. Definitely has nothing to do with low self worth. Who wants to redirect their whole body to dodge a corner 😂😂

  • @TheReal_Vossi
    @TheReal_Vossi 11 месяцев назад +3

    Lol what a hack

  • @yolibart
    @yolibart 3 месяца назад +1

    ADHD here. I have to respectfully disagree (at least in my particular case). I’ve definitely got anxiety and stress, no denying that, but of all the ways they manifest, I don’t feel like this is one of them. It’s more about efficiency. It just feels like too much work to take extra unnecessary steps. However, I will note that I observed my dad (also has ADHD) doing the postural sway my whole life (before I knew the term), and when he’s angry or stressed, his postural sway would very regularly get more intense and less accurate - he’d smack into us or things around the house and misjudge the time or space needed to maneuver without bumping into things. Seems like in his case, maybe it is partially related to the anxiety? Is postural sway intensifying/becoming kind of clumsy also an ADHD thing?

  • @AmayaRue2360
    @AmayaRue2360 Месяц назад

    I thought it was because l tend to walk into things

  • @XmatineeX
    @XmatineeX 9 месяцев назад

    Problem with it? PROBLEM? xD

  • @russcampiond05
    @russcampiond05 2 месяца назад

    Hi, I appreciate your explanation and theory. But I think there might be something different going on there. Watch the full video by searching "adhd walk". I walk like she does round things sometimes. For me the walk is a simple case of seeing the location goal, and my head making the straightest most efficient line to it, even if that means bending my body around. It also makes walking just a little bit less boring to walk using the part of my brain that controls balance, anticipate movements. It does come naturally, I don't ever think, oh I know, I'll walk like that today. It just happens. She seems to do that.

  • @dallindespain5082
    @dallindespain5082 Год назад +6

    You don't walk that way because myself a steam is bad I have good self esteem It's just more fun

    • @DaFlyingMarMar
      @DaFlyingMarMar Год назад +3

      Yeah!!! It's a weird connection this dude is making, I do it cus idk it's fun!

    • @T.Hawk25
      @T.Hawk25 Год назад +2

      Yeah it’s entertaining to me. I try not to listen to people so much anymore. Everyone has an idea or theory about everything. Stfu

  • @Senya19
    @Senya19 3 месяца назад

    I don't know about this 😅 that walk is the only thing I love about my ADD diagnosis 😅

  • @HyenaBlank
    @HyenaBlank 5 месяцев назад +1

    I feel like you might have read a bit too much into that.
    I've done that often when trying to squeeze through non straight paths and it's not some imbalance issue, if anything you probably need good balance to do it.
    I just find it amusing to do.

  • @anmolmishra4166
    @anmolmishra4166 Год назад +4

    Lmao this is so misleading. Plus its also another way to make us more conscious about how we walk and now correlate it to insecurity.
    I call BS.
    Walk your way. Its efficient, quick and helps you achieve your task.

  • @AppsDeevesh
    @AppsDeevesh Год назад

    I have ADHD and every time I do the ADHD walk there is mini game going in my head where I have to close miss an item to gain points...it goes avoiding chairs, tables, and getting in an out of doors without touching...keeps it interesting

  • @rutabega306
    @rutabega306 3 месяца назад

    This dude looks tired as hell

  • @fabenyc
    @fabenyc Год назад +1

    Wait, what’s the other way of walking?

  • @sufferingincorporatedtm1781
    @sufferingincorporatedtm1781 11 месяцев назад +3

    it's called 'having fun', you should try it sometime.
    maybe instead of making up a hair-brained theory, you should've just asked :)

  • @S.A.White...
    @S.A.White... 2 месяца назад

    I walk like this but im fine with it and dont want to change so... Not gonna

  • @docwiz
    @docwiz 9 месяцев назад

    Is it honestly a problem with us if we are prone to catching ourselves on objects? Far from worthlessness but it’s a natural reflex when we are prone to incidents.

  • @espinita.
    @espinita. 29 дней назад

    Problem? I feel sick as fuck swaying, zipping and zooming around my city

  • @KimikoMaui
    @KimikoMaui 2 месяца назад

    Oh crap. I have this. Darn!

  • @MusicAddictxme
    @MusicAddictxme 9 месяцев назад

    Is it me or does it feel like his face is AI-generated?

  • @Macabresque
    @Macabresque 5 месяцев назад +4

    so, what you're saying is, our brains are literally proven to be built differently, which affects the way we walk, but... you think it's instead caused by our self-esteem and feelings?? smdh.
    like another commenter said, stop pathologizing the way we walk. it ain't that deep. i just don't see things when i'm walking until it's too late and i run into them, but sometimes i avoid them just in time which is what that sway is. though i do agree, slowing down and mindfulness does help.
    but it's got nothing to do with feelings, unless you count being in a hurry because i'm always running behind as a feeling.

  • @coxinhagameplays1630
    @coxinhagameplays1630 Год назад +3

    nah, streaching time, this makes actuall no sense

  • @nobodynowhere21
    @nobodynowhere21 10 месяцев назад +2

    Empty speculation.

  • @kayliemcintosh7841
    @kayliemcintosh7841 Месяц назад

    Well, he’ll.
    Meditation?
    Dude? My monkey brain doesn’t sit. It does everything but meditation. - which I know how to meditate- the observation- which drives me bananas. Listening to my monkey brain is a form of self torture. I think I’ll keep walking into stuff…. And missing steep steps which results in sprained ankles!!! 🙄
    I hate my ADHD.

  • @007nadineL
    @007nadineL 4 месяца назад +1

    No
    No

  • @jefealdente1173
    @jefealdente1173 7 месяцев назад

    Started the channel a year ago. Very peculiar. I wonder what must have prompted this man to begin his channel only just a year ago, with this awfully vast wealth of knowledge to share having been withheld for so long in his career in addressing ADHD. Peculiar.

    • @cremebrulee4759
      @cremebrulee4759 5 месяцев назад

      Because there is new information coming out all the time. Different therapists have different theories and treat methods. Also, therapists gain knowledge from the patients they see. The field of psychology is constantly changing.

  • @nortonman5238
    @nortonman5238 Год назад +2

    Literally just learned about all this today, and a lot of things make way more sense as an adult ADHD patient.
    Hey btw y'all, mydayis is a great medication for actual ADHD patients!!!!

  • @Sara-lk2yr
    @Sara-lk2yr 3 месяца назад

    Sincerely... I don't find nothing special or worse in the way the girl walks... 😅

  • @mivsenfrida9872
    @mivsenfrida9872 10 месяцев назад

    Yeah cause people with adhd really excel in meditation. Nice try 😂 also we obviously walk like that cause our brains are always busy thinking of other stuff.

  • @Sunset1705
    @Sunset1705 3 месяца назад

    Nope, that's not it.

  • @ericwardify
    @ericwardify 29 дней назад

    Cool. I clicked the comments thinking with 99% confidence they would read this way. 💯