Do you use your feet?

[AsheSkyler]

And not just for walking on.

If I my feet were ever cut off, I'd be so clueless and lost. If I'm standing and I drop something, I grab it with my toes and pick it up. Except for paper, too flat and hard to grab without crinkling it, and I don't grab fallen eating utensils either. If a door doesn't shut all the way while I'm in the process of walking off, I'll reach out and push it with my toes. If I have my arms full of towels that I need to put up in the cabinet above the toilet, I'll shut the lid with my toes (very carefully, the toilet is in a nook that amplifies the lid slamming and makes my ears ring instantly) so I can put up towels without worrying about one of them going swimming. And a bunch of other things.

Some days I feel I think with my lower body more than my upper. When I used to wrestle with my friends or I wrestle with my husband, they've all learned very quickly to keep me from getting my knees (or feet) between us if I'm on my back because I can shove them off like a ragdoll. (Aspie strength, woohoo!)

Ah, that's my other curiosity. Have you been hailed as unusually strong for your gender? My guy friends have often said I'm the strongest chick they know.

 

[King_Oni]

Oh I regularly pick up things with my feet. Much like yourself, I don't try to pick up paper, nor do I have the intention to pick up eating utensils, but even back things like laundry, I often pick up with my feet even if it's to dispose in the laundry bin.

Suppose I do have a habit of close doors with feet as well if needed.

So yeah... so many things I use my feet for which I could probably do if I would just walk over somewhere or just bend over and pick up, but for some reason I quite like being pedidextrous to some extent.

 

[Randomperson]

Back when we were hairy apes our feet also had thumbs, I want foot thumbs damnit.

 

[King_Oni]

Back when we were hairy apes our feet also had thumbs, I want foot thumbs damnit.

I'd just want to have longer toes and better dexterity with my feet so I could flip off someone with my feet, lol

 

[Harrison]

I happily pick up laundry or close doors with my feet.

 

[StephF]

How about a prehensile tail ?

 

[Peace]

I use my feet for the same things although it did not seem unusual to me until now.
I have been told by many that I am unusually strong for my size. This is something I have taken note of because I have been hearing it since I was a child.

 

[apsie]

Yes.
I like to play around with it, even tried drawing with them.
The result was very abstract, I hung the drawing next to my front door.

 

[Nadador]

Even the title of this thread made me laugh with recognition. Glad I'm not the only one.

I barely need the ability to bend in the middle for as much as I use my feet to pick things up, move things, and explore things. I love being barefoot. I'm surprised I don't have a foot-related fetish of some kind.

As for strength, yes, I'm powerful for my size. I once did a series of endurance tests for insurance purposes [work], and measured in at twice the average pushing, pulling and lifting power for a 30 years old man of my height and weight. I was 52 at the time. I've always stayed in shape, though, so that may be part of the reason. And I'm just bloody determined.

You mentioned "Aspie strength". Is there a known connection between physical strength and AS?

 

[StephF]

I used to change the TV set with my feet

 

[Cali Cat]

If I'm standing and I drop something, I grab it with my toes and pick it up. ... If a door doesn't shut all the way while I'm in the process of walking off, I'll reach out and push it with my toes...And a bunch of other things... Have you been hailed as unusually strong for your gender?

Yes, and yes. I pick up things with my toes all the time. I used to be quite dexterous with my feet when I was younger and thinner ... like I was part monkey or something ... lol.

Again, when I was younger (and thinner), I was told often by men that I seemed stronger than my gender and size would indicate. I was wiry too, and I fought dirty when I was fighting for real ... which happened with some frequency back in my drinking days. Add to that my tolerance for pain, and I gained a rep for being one chick to avoid.

Of course, nowadays, a two-year-old could probably get the best of me. "Oh, how the mighty have fallen."

 

[epath13]

Picking pencils with my toes was one of the exercises I had to do as a part of my physical therapy when I was a kid. I was doing it every or almoust every day for several years. It's weird, I completely forgot about it. This thread reminded me. I had to do it at least 10 times every day.

Look at that, I found all the feet exercises I was doing as a child

http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/...ankle-exercises/strengthening-exercises-foot

 

[clg114]

It must be nice to have the dexterity to be able to pick things up will your feet. I am very clumsy, very large and wear a size 13 shoe. The only thing I use my feet for are standing, walking and stumbling. I trip over my own feet a lot. As for strength, I was very strong when I was a young man, just because of my size. Not so much these days, both of my sons are a lot stronger than me.

 

[May Black]

I practiced writing with my toes when I was a kid. I couldn't tell you why other than I thought it was fun.

I do pick up a lot of things with my feet, my toes are very agile.

 

[Harrison]

I remember seeing Christmas cards painted by people with no arms, some using their mouth and others using their feet.

Inspirational, just like this -

 

[AsheSkyler]

Heehee, so we might can conclusively say that being pedidextrous should be considered a symptom of ASD if you're not known to be an oddball NT? Unless our infamous clumsiness thwarts that. It's odd that it doesn't thwart it more often , we're stereotypically not known for our grace.

And I would LOVE a prehensile tail, I am very sad that we're more closely related to gorillas than spider monkeys.

Picking pencils with my toes was one of the exercises I had to do as a part of my physical therapy when I was a kid. I was doing it every or almoust every day for several years. It's weird, I completely forgot about it. This thread reminded me. I had to do it at least 10 times every day.

Look at that, I found all the feet exercises I was doing as a child

http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/rehabilitation-exercises/lower-leg-ankle-exercises/strengthening-exercises-foot

I remember goofing off with a lot of those things when I was bored! Especially the heel walking. I plodded loudly along like a drunk ox!
How strange they did not include an exercise for pinching the pencil between your toes like you do with your fingers. That's how I do it anyway. Push the big toe down so the other toes go forward, and pick whatever it is up. I can grab heavier things that way.

You mentioned "Aspie strength". Is there a known connection between physical strength and AS?

I've read in passing in a few places that we exert more force than is necessary without realizing it. I would assume that unless we specifically work out and build muscle so that we do become more powerful than the average person, we're simply being over-achievers.

 

[wyverary]

During the summer months I go barefoot almost everywhere, so I daresay my feet are most robust during that time! I scratch my dog's ears and pick up small objects with my toes.

 

[AsheSkyler]

During the summer months I go barefoot almost everywhere, so I daresay my feet are most robust during that time! I scratch my dog's ears and pick up small objects with my toes.

And then in February when the callouses have grown soft from it being too cold to go barefoot, you can dig out the summer's briars.
That's what my grandfather said anyway. Mine usually worked out within a few weeks if I couldn't dig them out first.

 

[ancusmitis]

Ah, I'm the same way! I thought I was so weird. Looking at other people's feet kinda freaks me out, though. If I'm with someone and I want to take my shoes off, I ask them if it's okay.