WHAT THE HECK ARE STIM TOYS?

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Bean bags (or anything else) for juggling.*

Flying Discs (Frisbees) for tricks (like tipping, body rolls, air brushes etc.)**

Hacky Sacks for Hacky Sacking (Is that a real phrase?)

Yo-Yo's

Tops

This one you probably haven't heard of: Dyna Bee. This is a gyroscopic exercise device that takes some practice before you can make it work. Once you do though, it is habit forming. It makes an amazing noise, vibrates and gets going really fast. It looks like a clear ball with a ball shaped gyroscope inside. You can keep a Dyna Bee going as long as you keep moving in the right way. I don't know if they still make them. The last one I saw was in the early 1980's.

(You may notice a trend: mostly things that spin.)

*I can only juggle three, but any more is ostentatious.

**See Wikipedia about "air brushing." I could do that for hours at the beach. (No not continuously.)

At home I enjoy the locking mechanism of a folding knife, but this doesn't travel well. Not unlike the 7.62 x 39 round that someone mentioned earlier. Incidentaly I have a .50 round (spent but put back together) I sometime fiddle with that (its big and chunky) but I like moving parts and components so this doesn't suit me.

I am trying to find a machine part that is small enough to carry everywhere, complicated enough to be interesting and can be stripped and re-assembled without tools. I was thinking of a carburetter form 125cc motorbike but it requires tools to strip.

If anyone can think of a suitable component please let me know. I've already issued this challenge to people I know and they have come up with nothing.

The magnetoids (thanks herbivore) make a cool chittering sound when they come together if you hold them apart and throw them up in the air.

Stress Balls exist because NTs need them too.

I use stim toys to keep from chewing my cheek, and to maintain body awareness.

A rubber band is a good one, especially when out and about.

Clicky pens anyone?

I actually had these taken away from me at a previous job because I couldn't stop clicking them. I was immensely bored. I didn't need to hear the history of our client's company for the 20th time. (I was [s]selling my soul[/s] working in an outsourced call center at the time)

On a side note, when you work in an outsource center, you can see how much the outsourcing client wastes.