Although ADHD can increase your risk, not everyone with ADHD will have postural sway

[IVgrowsontrees]

I've been doing this my entire life. Never knew it was related to my adhd, thats crazy.

[TheDivineDante]

Wait, normal people don't do this?

[James-nrgm]

I don’t think this is postural sway. When I look up postural sway, it seems to be when you make movements to maintain balance because you are losing it - but where person without sway wouldn’t.

What we see here is choosing a path to walk on that requires you do something to get around an object, rather than just walking around the object. I could see there being a link with ADHD, but…

(1) I have ADHD and definitely do this to the point where I’ve gotten comments on it. If anything I feel like this behavior requires more balance.

(2) I have the balance and motor control to do things like race stand-up paddle boards, even catching light waves and surfing. Sure, I’ve been active all my life, so some balance is trained, but I’ve never been called “clumsy” at anything.

Let’s blast this misconception and get to the bottom of our weird ADHD path-finding algorithm

[BiancamellaSays]

I do have ADHD and I do this unconsciously, however I also have arthritis in my spine and weak ankles so my balance is screwed either way lol. I'll randomly start tipping to one side while standing still at times.

[marybethjordan]

Interesting, I've always walked this way lol!

[s.amelia]

never knew this was related to my adhd (I have autism), that's wild.

[Purpleshade]

Oh i always thought there was something wrong cus i walk like that

[Lovestroutfish]

I just tried looking into this further bc im adhd and am having oretty serious muscular problems and vascular and am getting ready to turn 37. Having vascular surgery as the youngest patient this practice has even done surgery on and having multiple muscles "pop", i know these things have to be tied together. Its rare people have such wide spread issues without it being things that are tied together. I struggled to find research that studied females at all. Like the most popular study of adhd and dmd it was 103 boys. I actually couldnt find a study linking the two that studied a single female in the research group. In my experience more females have muscular problems than males.

[poponachtschnecke]

Risk? There's something wrong with this?

[kh]

Y’all are always making up stuff stop it