Hello,

I hope you don't mind yet another email.  there are a couple of other 
odd things I do and I was wondering if anyone can relate:

a lot of the time, I don't like to have my feet flat on the ground.  I 
feel a pull that is uncomfortable in my lower legs.  so when I'm in the 
bathroom, I usually lean on the floor with the balls of my feet and sit 
with my feet pointed upwards.  when I'm sitting at the computer, I 
often end up pulling my legs back and curling my toes under, or sitting 
with my lower legs bent so that the balls of my feet touch the floor 
and the rest of my feet is up at an angle.  sometimes I'll sit with the 
outside of my feet touching the floor, and everything else lifted up.  
these things are more comfortable than sitting with my feet flat on the 
floor.  I do have flat feet and I wear orthotics for them.

maybe I've gotten really used to having poor posture and with the 
stretching, I'll sit in a more standard position.  it pulls too much on 
my legs.  I guess the flat feet could account for it?

I toe-walked for a while as a child and my mother talked to the doctor 
about it, but he said a lot of kids do it.  But I was told by a PT that 
I was essentially still doing it, because she said something about my 
ankles not coming up all the way so I was pushed forward on my toes.  I 
don't understand what she meant because I put my heel on the floor.  
but she said I'm pushed forward too much, or something like that.  she 
said I was out of alignment due to bone structure.  I'm completely 
clueless on that.

I also walked late - after age 2.  I walked on my knees for a year.  I 
forget whether I said that already.

can anyone else relate to not wanting to put your feet flat on the 
ground?  in shoes with the orthotics in them, it is easier.  just in my 
bare feet, I don't like it.

also, when I said I have to fight my legs to walk a lot of the time, 
that is how it is.  when I try to walk faster, my back stiffens up and 
my legs "lock up" if anyone knows what that means.  the resistance gets 
harder.

I know this may all sound very trivial.  I'm sorry if I'm offending 
anyone by posting these emails - it's just there is really no one to 
talk to who understands this stuff, and some of the things I do seem so 
minor that I don't bother mentioning them for fear a doctor will tell 
me I'm being ridiculous or oversensitive, or something like that.

thanks

Mary Katherine
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