# Biden has an unusual gait **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [December 17, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270 "2020-12-17T16:47:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/1 "2020-12-17T16:47:13Z")
Biden seems to have an unusual gate that is relatively new. Years ago my ladies father was diagnosed with Alzheimer and had been going downhill rapidly for several years. I pointed out his gate was typical of someone with hydrocephalus and it turned out I was right. Do any Dr’s here recognize anything unusual in his gait? ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/2 "2020-12-17T16:52:23Z")
What’s unusual about it? It’s wrought iron, right? Seems like a pretty normal gate to me. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/3 "2020-12-17T16:55:14Z")
He fractured two bones in his foot late last month while playing with his dog. Is that what you mean by “relatively new”? > **[Biden breaks foot while playing with dog, to wear a boot](https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-breaks-foot-playing-with-dog-d4d9a2d939c57befb6ca3dd247a1e8e0)** > > WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden will likely wear a walking boot for the next several weeks as he recovers from breaking his right foot while playing with one of his dogs, his doctor said... ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/4 "2020-12-17T16:57:30Z")
Yes the broken foot would explain it. I had forgotten about it. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/5 "2020-12-17T16:57:51Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > He fractured two bones in his foot late last month while playing with his dog. Is that what you mean by “relatively new”? Which is likely a cover story for the stroke that left him comatose while a body double wears a _Mission Impossible_-style mask. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/6 "2020-12-17T16:59:34Z")
But don’t let this stop your hypothesizing! Maybe aliens have replaced his foot? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/7 "2020-12-17T17:18:00Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > Yes the broken foot would explain it. I had forgotten about it. Short-term memory loss. Might want to get checked out for Alzheimer’s. It’s one of the symptoms. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/8 "2020-12-17T17:49:28Z")
Well aware of that, happening more frequently as I age ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/9 "2020-12-17T17:54:33Z")
Ehhh, don’t be overly concerned. I come from a family with Alzheimer’s in its history as well. As my doctor said in response to my general anxieties, “Don’t worry when you can’t remember where you put your car keys. Worry when you can’t remember what they’re for.” ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/10 "2020-12-17T18:11:27Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Maybe aliens have replaced his foot? Actual photo of Biden’s skull showing the Cymothoa from the planet Exigua that has replaced Biden’s tongue. This, of course, explains all of the verbal gaffs. [![](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200813123110-01-tongue-eating-parasite-fish-exlarge-169.jpg) ](https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/200813123110-01-tongue-eating-parasite-fish-exlarge-169.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/11 "2020-12-17T20:38:50Z")
Gotta be the AIDS. Only explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2020, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/12 "2020-12-17T21:28:17Z")
We know it can’t have anything to do with Covid, because there’s no such thing as Covid. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/13 "2020-12-18T02:05:19Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > But don’t let this stop your hypothesizing! Maybe aliens have replaced his foot? I do hypothesize a lot, more often than not it will not lead to anything but more often than some would expect I come up with things that others have missed so not going to apologize for something you don’t like. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/14 "2020-12-18T02:12:18Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > “Don’t worry when you can’t remember where you put your car keys. Worry when you can’t remember what they’re for.” I heard it as “Don’t worry if you can’t remember where you parked your car. Worry when you can’t remember where you live.” ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/15 "2020-12-18T11:00:47Z")
So what do you think about the alien foot theory? ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/16 "2020-12-18T13:24:45Z")
I came to this thread for…the Lizard People. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/17 "2020-12-18T13:52:58Z")
Biden is 78 years old. Of course he has a funny gait. Hey, I’m 61, and I walk funny sometimes. Fell asleep reading, slept wrong? I walk funny all day. This says nothing about his cognitive ability, and is not a sign of Alzheimer’s or dementia. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/18 "2020-12-18T16:43:03Z")
In Bidens case his problem was a broken foot, but I beg to differ with you on ignoring sudden changes in a persons gate, hand movements, facial expressions etc. I think they should always be looked at. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/19 "2020-12-18T16:49:50Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > gate, Gait! While I usually don’t bother to nitpick spelling, the error was already pointed out (and made fun of) in the second post. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270/20 "2020-12-18T16:51:32Z")
> [@HoneyBadgerDC](#): > > In Bidens case his problem was a broken foot, but I beg to differ with you on ignoring sudden changes in a persons gate, hand movements, facial expressions etc. I think they should always be looked at. - You should furrow your brow so we can see just how _concerned_ you are. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biden-has-an-unusual-gait/928270.md?page=2)