Your weirdest stim

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I used to just click the knuckles on my hands. Now I click my knuckles, jaw, shoulders, hips, knees, ankles, feet and toes. Generally I keep the full thing to myself though... it freaks people out if they walk in and I'm leaning to the side to click my inner hip.

I also chew my finger nails and toe nails, pull out my hair one individual follicle at a time.

I have this hand shake thing which is probably my favourite stim. At work if I'm stressed I'll sometimes nip to the bathroom just to get it out of my system. When I'm home, and listening to music, I'll start off just shaking my hands till the fingers blur, but I'll keep it up till my whole arms and shoulders are joining in with it. It's like my arms want to start dancing, but it goes from my fingers up to my shoulder blades. I've seen pictures of myself as a kid, and there's not one picture where my hands are in focus before the age of about five. I'm pretty sure I'm doing my handy dance.

The worst one I ever did though was get into lotus position at school, stick my head between my legs, and scuttle across the floor in the middle of assembly. I was seven, and I always remember one girl crying because she thought I looked like a spider. When I heard her say that I freaked out, and couldn't unlock myself... so I was screaming and scuttling round the room with a whole gaggle of nuns chasing me.

I can't remember how I got out of that one.

Anyway... clicking and hand dancing, probably my weirdest.

I also pull out hairs one at a time, but only around my forehead and in front of my ears. some of them feel like they don't belong there and I HAVE to take them out. I also play with my nose, lips, rub my eyebrows (and have to jump up and get tweezers if a hair is bothering me).

lately I've been playing solitaire on my ipod when I have to wait in public so I don't swing my leg, pace, stare at people and do other weird things. reading a magazine helps too but usually the ones I find in offices are really boring or I'm there often enough to have read all the interesting stuff. I guess I'd have to consider solitaire a "stim". my grandfather used to play it incessantly and I kind of wonder if it was the same thing for him. he was an odd duck when I think about it, but he was so much fun to hang out with. he didn't talk much, but he was full of facts and strange stories and had some fascinating interests.

I play and tug on my facial hair
I click my finger nails
I make a popping sound by tapping the middle finger of my left hand in between the knuckles of the middle and ring finger of my right hand
I suck spit through my front teeth
I chew on my lips
Restless leg syndrome
I roll the long sealed up ear piercings in my ears that have an air bubble in them
Oddly enough, some of them at the same time. Sucking spit through my teeth while clicking my fingernails and shaking the s**t out of my legs uncontrollably.

Many more things that I can't think of right now..

No wonder my fiancée hates me sometimes. I'm annoying. Not that I care but I see why she feels that way.

masterbation. Seriously I cannot go a day without rubbing one out. also always feel the need to crack my neck, really freaks people out

Jiggling my legs

Lining up water bottles on my nightstand, a habit I learned from watching tennis player Rafael Nadal do it. Really, I have nothing else in common with him. I don't play tennis; I only watch it.

I also say his famous word, "Vamos!" a lot (to myself, of course).

Mine is really weird...I’ve done it since I was a child. I rip strips of paper......I use old scrap paper so as not to be too wasteful) I rip a thin strip, that gets thicker at the very end. I twirled the strip of paper around and between my fingers. Sometimes I scrunch up my face and look at it. I do it while reading or playing on the computer, or while sitting and fantasizing. Sometimes I use pieces of string, where I tie knots at certain places along the string and allow my fingers to twirl over and around them. I’m not sure I described this very well. I don’t quite understand what it is I like about the sensation of this, but it is my favourite stim. I only do it in private though, because it looks really weird. My family knew I did it when I was a child and it freaked them out SO much. My mom said someone would end up locking me up and put me in a `tiny little room in a hospital `` if I kept doing it. My family doesn’t know that I still do it now at 24 years of age.

This hairpulling stuff is trichotillomania you know. It's a disorder within it's own right, at least if you do it obsessively and you can't stop even if you want to. I'm diagnosed with that too, but I didn't consider it a stim since it causes me so much anxiety.

The sound of a slinky when it's stretched out with your ear at one end and a metal object (a fork or something) hitting it at the other end... It sounds so cool, I could do it for ages. Playing with the tension of the slinky and the types of metal objects, you could make about 6 different varieties of the same sound at least. I get so lost in it when I get started.

i make a lighter spinning while holding it with 2 fingers. it looks like the lighter spins by itself, but i have to keep it balanced. it sort of keeps my mind focused