Do Aspies Fidget?

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I fidget way too much, I sometimes find it impossible to stay still unless I'm daydreaming about something.

For me, is is exactly the opposite - it is when I am daydreaming that I fidget. As a child, I NEEDED to fidget when I went for my "imaginary lives" (and, if could not fidget, I could not "escape" from reality).

I even have a theory that "everybody fidget/stimm when are thinking/daydreaming, and the reason because autistics fidget/stimm more is because they think/daydream more". However, the fact that some autistics stimm, exactly, when they are not daydreaming refutes my theory.

I was always told I did as a kid and I was the poster child for ADHD and couldn't sit still for long periods and always had to be in motion. But I think the "figits" people always described were just stims.

I don't really daydream. I escape into books, but I can't come up with ways to escape on my own.

I stim both when I'm thinking and when I don't have my mind together enough to think and am trying to regain control of it.

I figet - hands, especially bouncing my legs.

Saw my attorney for my disability hearing today.

I sat down, made myself comfortable, and he immediately asks if anything's wrong, and I'm "What?" I had already started rocking and stimming.

Every time I think, "Hey, I'm not stimming and/or fidgeting" I realize I'm doing something (stroking a brush's bristles, for example, playing with a pen or pencil, etc).

Or just now, tapping on my keyboard.

It is endless.

I think it would be strange to just sit still and not move anything. Knuckle cracking, fiddling with my glasses, tapping on things, it's pretty much essential

One of the things I wish I could stop doing is cleaning out the stuff under my nails. It makes me look like I'm not taking my work seriously, but I just can't stand to look down and see gunk.

yup.... I "leg bounce". That's what put me off from the conclusion of Aspieness for so long, because I didn't understand "hand flap"... I thought "nah, I don't do that"... then I read online somewhere a list of fidgets and when I got to leg bounce, the lightbulb came on for me I'm pretty famous for leg bounce, the dog even gets annoyed and sighs at me like "must you do that?"

{I really should learn to proofread}

I fidget a little. I'm more conscious of it now more than ever, but I tend to think my finger nails are loose and I'm always trying to tighten them down. Pointless I know.

I knuckle crack and leg bounce aswell, come to think of it.
and have a habit of dismantling and repairing my pens over and over again.

Don't know that I'm an aspie, but I fidgit constantly.

Hand flapping, finger twisting, knukle cracking, running hands through my hair, bouncing my legs, flexing my toes, tapping my desk, flicking my pen, taking my pen apart, twirling or bending my glasses, tapping on my keyboard even when I'm not typing, biting my lip, biting my tongue, cracking my neck, and a whole bunch of other things I can't even think of right now.

I've also broken any number of things while fidgeting with them. Pairs of glasses, pens and pencils, drinking glasses and bottles, various electronics...it's actually a pretty expensive habit, now that I think of it.

I fidget

I am still not sure I am an aspie or not. I do fidget a lot even when I sit still while watching TV. Mostly I wiggle my leg usually my left leg or sometimes my right. During my wedding I constantly played with my rings during the ceremony. Sometimes I accept it is normal and then I hear my mom saying stop your wiggling.

I hardly ever fidget once I get comfortable in a certain position.

This.



I thought it was the other way around. I stop most of my stims whenever I start daydreaming. It's like I don't need them anymore. To me, having a daydream is being in the daydream; the physical world doesn't matter for a while.



I used to do that a lot too. When I allowed myself to have dismantle-able pens. I used to bring about four pens/pencils with me and try to dismantle and reassemble them in less than two minutes. But I kept on losing them.