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As someone who has taught an impatient child (what's the opposite of an oxymoron?) how to tie a shoe, I can tell you there are many different ways to tie a shoe, and apparently there is a way that's easier for autistic kids (I thought that might be easier) but I was having trouble with it as an adult. So...
ELI5 how do neurotypical adults autistie their shoes?
I do loop swoop and pull but I'm not 100% neurotypical. I did learn as an adult that swooping over instead of under makes your laces much less likely to come undone and since then haven't ever double knotted my laces.
As an impatient adult my solution is to wear shoes without laces. I have a pair of boots that use laces, and a pair of sneakers with laces that I never wear. Everything else is slip on or zip up. I'd wear velcro, too, I don't even care if it looks ridiculous (only I've never had that option as an adult)
You just made me think about my current shoe collection. I have 2 pairs of flip flops, 1 pair of slip on house shoes, 4 pairs of slip on walking/tennis shoe looking shoes (dunno what to call them) and 2 actual tennis shoes with laces and 2 dress shoes with laces.
When I run, I wear the laces. Anywhere else I'm laceless. Haven't worn business attire since covid began.
Step 1 Lay hands palm down. Grabs each lace in each hand. Make two thumbs up. ( laces should oriented shoe-thumb side, aglet-pinky side.) Extend index fingers.
Step 2a With right hand loop the lace around your thumb then index finger. With left hand loop around the opposite way, finger then thumb.
Step 3 Place left hand index finger under right hand lace(between right hand index and thumb.)
Step 4 (simultaneous) Use right hand to grab left hand lace (around left hand index finger). Use left hand to grab right hand lace ( around right hand thumb)
Step 5a pull laces all the way through each other.
You now have the over under part.
Repeat steps 1-5 with these changes
Step 2b right hand - finger then thumb Left hand - thumb then finger.
Step 5b Do not pull laces all the way through.
You now have a finished knot.
If you ignore 2b And do 2a both times you will still have a knot but it is likely to come untied.
If you ignore 5b you will have a knot but no "bows"
Hope that helps!
Edit: formatting.
Edit 2: A Ted talk on the process
Edit 3 Oops that ted talk only tasks about the normal way, this one does the fancy way that I was referring to.
Awesome, thanks! That was fun trying to get right lol