I cant stay still...why?

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I wonder why I cant EVER stay still for even a moment. If I force myself not to move a muscle...I feel like I am going to explode! Most of the time, my foot or feet tap, my fingers wiggle and occasionally I flap my arms and hands up and down. Mom hates it when I do that in public...she says it looks like I am going to take flight.
Other times my legs wiggle back and forth and my toes scrunch. I can stop this at any time, so it is not like a muscle disease. When I was little, I would run around the house in circles for no other reason than it felt good and I would do this for about 30 minutes to an hour...or until my mom caught me and sat me on the couch and made me stay there for 5 minutes...of course I cried the whole time because I hated being still more than anything.
My poor mother...I drove her batty sometimes. But nowdays I resort to twitching, flapping, tapping, wiggling and sometimes snapping my fingers.

Why cant I stay still and when I do...it feels like I am going to explode?

Jojo

It's just stimming. I do it constantly. It's fun, and feels great!

It just stimming , just find ways to stim that are not noticeable and its fine

what is stimming? I never heard of that before?

I pick at my nails constantly though I do not chew them to stubs, mostly just harmless picking at. If I have something in my hands, coins, a pen, paper, anything I will fiddle with it constantly. If I am writing so can't fiddle with my hands I will rock one foot. I could sit still for hours as long as I had something to fiddle with. If I had to sit completely still I probably wouldn't last 2 minutes.

The way I see it is that I need to maintain a certain level of mental activity and just listening or seeing is not enough. I need to fiddle to fill the "slack". Uni lectures that are boring a very un-stimulating so I fiddle a lot, draw crap and stuff. I've taken to drawing simple fractal patterns recently . Anyway that is what I think the stimming is for me.

thanks that really helps....and yes I am very hypersencitive and when I do move alot it feels good.

You are definitely not the only one who happens to do it, most of us tend to do it for the fun of it

I know I do especially when i'm very overexcited like when I get to see my favourite person, I feel like I have the urge to stim and also when I watch something that I really like, I also tend to stim... and also occasionally when i'm bored, I stim...

It seems weird to people, but I make sure that people don't see it...

I can never sit still. I always have to be tapping my feet, or have something in my hands to fiddle with at least. I can't stand still, either. I usually pace, or kind of rock or spin.

I have a very hard time staying still. So far, the only thing that really helps is when I wrap my legs tightly with a blanket (I really want a weighted blanket, but I can't afford one... yet), and even then, it keeps only my legs still, and only for a couple of hours. It seems like I'm always squirming, readjusting myself, playing around with something... I'm even a restless sleeper.

I have the same issue, didn't know what it was until I came here. It's just voluntary, but compulsive little tics to keep my mind active, and it makes it very hard for me to fall asleep.