Do you have any fidget toys?

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This is an old video from 2018.

I am still using fidget spinners even thou this is 2023, real 2017 technology that I am still using and love using those fidget toys.

Not really 'toys' but I like playing with pegs when I'm reading or concentrating on something. It's either a matter of squeezing them so they open and close, or leaving them clamped on my fingertips. For some reason, I quite like the pressure.

I don't have any "official" fidget toys because I don't want to appear autistic (my parents have not openly raised the question of autism, but whenever I have done something that is associated with it such as flapping my hands or looking away from people they have told me to never do that), but I use common objects such as markers or binder clips, as well as my own knuckles/fingernails (I avoid trimming them because of sensory issues)

Not a toy, and I mostly find it annoying, yet I still do it every day... to wit:

I visit the gemini-verse, a "smol web" protocol, which can be access through a command line client, or stand alones... but that's not important rn. In this gemini-verse, there is a "game" called "Astrobotany" where you can tend to a "plant". In this "game" there is a "duck" in a "koi pond" that will grant you "karma" if you "throw" "flower petals" at it...

and here's the stim:

press TAB numerous times to reach the link to the "garden", then press ENTER.
TAB some more to "enter" the "flower garden"... ENTER
TAB TAB TAB TAB TAB etc. until you reach an unvisited "plant"... ENTER
TAB TAB TAB ENTER when you get to the "collect petal" link
ENTER to confirm
TAB ENTER to back out
repeat 40 or more so times.
(what's annoying is the fact that the list changes as you're doing this, so you have to remember what you collected, as well as you have to "reset" each time/you cannot filter or stay in the garden)

Then you "feed" the duck, and wait another 24 hours to do it all again.

Rubic’s cube and 5x5 vCube