Your most used Stim?

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clenching my teeth, followed by rubbing my hands together as if to warm them.

my most stim would have to be sucking my thumb on my right hand and rocking / sway side to side ( only front and back at home or in sensory overload / meltdown) and i constantly fidget and i keep little toys / beads , fabric with me at all times and hat and sun glasses to use for sensory issues that i would also classifier as stimming i also have a genetic condition with make me able to dislocate my body in a lot of places so i click my thumbs out and wrist and my right ankle as i can move my left. i also keep ear phones in most of the time even when i'm not listening to music.

Pacing. Distant pacing. Fiddling my hair and/or hands.

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Rocking back and forth. Drumming/patting/slapping (gently) myself. Humming and growling.

Like cathylinn, rubbing palms, - but more often fingerflickering.
I tend to rock softly, when alone, - but I´m wondering...is this flapping?: Bending elbow and shaking the hand vivaceously to clear a "dead" sensation in my wrist - only the left. It happens, when I´m tense and have difficulty focusing on my task. It is an outlet of ecxess energy.

Wiggling toes, jiggling foot / leg, doing something with my fingers----like, folding them over each other, or something similar.

I leg bounce and pace extensively at work and at home. At work I leg bounce most of the time I'm at my desk. When I get home I will pace up and down/round and round for hours. Those are probably the most used.

Other common ones are I sniff fingers a lot, play with my beard, gently tap myself, tap a cup I'm holding with a clenched hand etc

It wasn't until this week that I started pinpointing my stimming behaviors, but turns out I have several. For instance, I leg-bounce whenever I have to sit for more than two minutes. I also like spinning things (cellphone, pens, whatever has the misfortune of being in my hands). If I'm overstimulated I bite and pull the skin of my fingers until there are temporary marks (which are hard to hide). When I have an outright meltdown I can't calm down until I hit stuff with my fist, but usually where I won't be found doing so (like my poor car).

My pacing is absorptive, everything else apart from the thing I'm focusing on (reading/music/thoughts etc) largely disappears. That's why I can do it for hours, all sense of the passage of time is lost.

Pick, pick, picking at the skin on the side of my left thumb, all my life. It's so thick and calloused that there is no pain involved, just big wedges of thick skin and always bits to pick off or bite off. I try not to do it in a public place but I knock myself out when at home. I seem to do it both when anxious and when calm, so I don't really understand what's going on there. It's almost like a hobby. One sister of mine did it too.

My next most-used would be a tie between foot-bouncing when sitting with legs crossed, or pacing. I pace the most when stressed and anxious, usually when anticipating an event or encounter that will be stressful for me, or after the fact, when I get home and then can't stop thinking about and going over what just happened or was said. I also pace about if talking on the phone at home.

Shaking my foot/leg and tapping. The tapping tends to piss people off and it's only when they moan about it that I realise I'm doing it.

Seems to be hurting myself. Rubbing my skin really hard, itching/scratching excessively, biting myself, hitting my head, hitting myself, and in extreme situations using scissors for the scratching. Yeah, that was going ok, and all of a sudden I end up with a massive open wound which got 5 stitches. I have a scar and not touching scissors when overloaded/whelmed again. But it's mainly scratching with my hands. I dunno why, and I dunno how to stop it either.

I'm very bad about picking at my lower lip and usually bleeding out there a lot. Also for whatever reason in any game that involves throwing things I seem to get hit in the head and lip. Very concerning that my head it act as a magnet for projectile objects