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15 Jan 2012, 3:08 am

Finger twisting. If you spend a significant length of time with me and I have on a baggy shirt/skirt or there's a purse/some sort of fabric-y thing in the vicinity, I will be constantly twisting at it. Honestly, if there's anything even remotely twistable nearby, I will be twisting at it. I do it much more with my left hand than my right.


Less common, possible stims that I do: pacing, strange bodily contortions (ironically, I'm not flexible at all), making weird faces, talking to myself.


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15 Jan 2012, 5:37 pm

rocking while sitting (I've done that since I was a toddler and it's the most relaxing one for me)
twirling my hair around my fingers
I don't know if this is one, but I squeeze magic-rub erasers



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15 Jan 2012, 7:46 pm

Shaking my head. I remember when I was a child before I was diagnosed, my mom told me to quit doing it because people would think something is wrong with me. But now she understands the reason why I do it.



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15 Jan 2012, 8:24 pm

Usually, I just massage/twirl my rubber band "collection" in my hands. In my pockets or side, if I'm in a public situation (at work, I do it when I'm fronting/facing my store).
Also, pacing & scratching my scalp with my comb.
I think that is it.
I used to make faces in the mirror & imitate stuff I heard on TV, including sound effects. Annoyed the heck out of my roommates in college! LOL

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15 Jan 2012, 8:26 pm

Tuttle wrote:
I'm not sure the order but I think my most common ones are:
- Clasping my hands and self massaging of my thumbs with the other thumbs
- Holding onto my wrists with my other hands
- Fingerspelling
-Finger twisting

I also do things like rocking, but not as common as these.

The fingerspelling one is interesting. I never could spell outloud in school, if I wrote something down I could spell it but I couldn't orally. I took an elective in sign language in high school and somehow realized that I actually could fingerspell and then spell something orally almost as good as if I wrote it down first. Fingerspelling is processed in a different part of my brain than speaking it seems. From this it turned into a stim and a method to try to figure out what I'm saying when stressed out. It's one that people rarely realize is a stim and actually does a ridiculous amount in allowing me to speak when am stressed out.


I fingerspell too! I didn't realize anyone else did that!


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16 Jan 2012, 12:49 am

My stim usually depends on the situation. My "go-to" I guess would be flapping my hand or tapping my leg back-and-forth. If I've been forced into making a phone call I pace like mad, if I'm standing in public I rock forward-and-back, if I'm almost-stressed I twist and bend my fingers and hands, and if I'm actually stressed I bite my hands, usually the knuckles. (I bite a lot actually, hands, the inside of my mouth, straws if they're available... That's really sort of a constant thing, just to various degrees.) Oh, and sometimes I make noises, almost like humming but without any inflection or song-qualities.



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16 Jan 2012, 1:12 am

I tap my feet.

I do it in the exact same motion I use when I play drums (7 or 8 years I've been doing that by this point). Especially when I'm at a friends house, it looks like I am having a very isolated and somehow controlled seizures.



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16 Jan 2012, 6:30 am

Why do so many of you "hand flap"? What the hell is hand flapping anyway?



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16 Jan 2012, 9:33 am

Burzum wrote:
Why do so many of you "hand flap"? What the hell is hand flapping anyway?


Hand flapping is when your hand is flapping/waving/jiggling loosely on the end of your wrist (and when I do it, it twists and contorts too). I'm not sure exactly why so many of us have that as a common stim - I'm not even entirely sure why I do it, it's an unconscious action, but the further out of my comfort zone I am the more exaggerated it becomes.



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16 Jan 2012, 9:55 am

Hoping and jumping while flapping my hands. Because of this, I have enormous calves. Do somebody have this one as well?