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Did you chew or twirl your hair as a child?
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28 Mar 2009, 2:13 pm

omg yeah but it was much worse when i was little i would twirl my hair at school and get it stuck in knots then i would rip it out and throw it on the ground i lost alot of hair doing that.
i also sucked on it.



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31 Mar 2009, 11:51 pm

I used to chew on my hair, compulsively lick my fingers and use them to slick back my bangs, and run my hands through my hair, which made it extremely oily. I'm so glad I'm not alone in this!



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13 Apr 2009, 8:06 pm

Oh my God, yes!

Lol; I thought I was the only one who did that.

As I am still a child (kind of ) I still do that.
Not so much hair twirling (though I do that too) but I used to chew on my hair constantly.


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06 May 2009, 2:09 pm

pinktoes wrote:
Used to twirl it, still do sometimes when I'm nervous. Used to chew it (I liked to hear the crunch between my teeth), but don't chew it anymore. I'm not sure why I don't chew it anymore, other than I grew out of that.


Exact same here- I find myself still twirling it frequently, though, not only when I'm nervous. I grew out of the chewing too though, haha :lol:


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06 May 2009, 3:10 pm

I still do both. all the time.


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20 May 2009, 8:06 pm

My hair has never been long enough to chew on... but I have twirled my hair ever since it has been long enough in grade 9. I will never have short hair again, as I just like mylong hair so much more. I cant wait for it to get long enugh that I can get it nicely layered. :)



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01 Jun 2009, 11:28 am

I chewed my hair for a few months, mainly because I was anxious about being in a new school.



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01 Jun 2009, 11:39 am

:lol: Ha ha, yeah. I used to chew it ragged, and pull out individual hairs or clumps.
I still twirl it to this day, smell my conditioner's scent, and scratch at my scalp



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01 Jun 2009, 9:05 pm

Both as a child. Still twirl it.



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02 Jun 2009, 10:31 pm

oh dear.

I twirl or tug on a clump. whenever it's long enough, I'll suck on a strand of it and pull it between my lips, over and over.

I've decreased the frequency of the above, but...

I also pull out individual hairs (usually along my forehead hairline) if it feels wrong for them to be growing where they are. this behavior has increased.

is this aspie or OCD behavior? my shrink says I have attributes of both, but it didn't occur to me that the hair thing qualified as one of those things.



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07 Jun 2009, 11:06 pm

I used to twirl my hair when I was bored in class, but I stopped when I realized I was getting knots in my hair as a result of twirling my hair.



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14 Jun 2009, 1:47 am

I used to suck on my hair.



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14 Jun 2009, 5:55 pm

I used to twirl my hair when I was a child, until my mother cut it short. :(



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15 Jun 2009, 7:54 am

activebutodd wrote:
:lol: Ha ha, yeah. I used to chew it ragged, and pull out individual hairs or clumps.
I still twirl it to this day, smell my conditioner's scent, and scratch at my scalp


I also smell my hair too. I also have this weird habit of pulling strands down over my face and twirl it over the end of my nose. I probably look like a right div but who cares.


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21 Jul 2009, 2:16 pm

Chewed my hair more than twirled it in Kindergarten.

It tasted so delicious!! ! :lol:



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21 Jul 2009, 4:37 pm

Not only did I chew and twirl my hair as a child, I still hair-twirl a lot. It's in fact my main stim. I don't chew anymore, but do occasionally stick a bit ofhair between my teeth.