What is your most Physical stim?

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Mine is when i get hyperactive and i start jumping along like a kangaroo usually until i fall on my face.


My most common really physical one is rocking. I do it when i am stressed, sad, bored, out of my element.

I have moments of hyperactive bursts when I just chase my cat around the house. I'm not sure if I'd call it stimming. I do the kangaroo jumping too usually while making sounds.

I don't know if this counts but I have a thing about leaning my head against the window on buses and in cars and letting it bang.

For those who are about to rock

we stare at you

I vibrate my legs, rock and skip merrily

I do this aswell, I enjoy the feeling when the bus goes over a bump and my head bounces off the window, it's soothing, I think we're both hyposensetive to stuff like that then.

usually, i just bounce my leg, hidden under a table (like the restless leg syndrome), coupled with some finger-tapping (in a specific, apperantly weird pattern) if it gets really bad.
however; i'm happy that i managed to internalise most of my stims; imagining performing them as a sufficient substitute.

there is one of them that doesn't, and it only occurs when i'm close to a meltdown, so if i feel (yeah, kinda stong one) that; i go home that instant, close the curtains and lock down; this is tightening the vertical muscles in my neck; thise thin ones that open your jaw, but i keep my mouth shut while doing that.

Buttonholes. I move my fingers through buttonholes all the time, constantly. It's very relaxing. I also bite one particular area of one finger, the fleshy part of the middle joint on my left index finger. It's gotten kind of tough from the constant biting, but I never draw blood and it's very relaxing for me.

I used to run back and forth slamming my body against walls.

Tapping my foot to my music.

The forms of stimming I regularly engage in are pacing, rocking, and hand-flapping. Pacing would be the most physical among them, I'd say, given that it's been known to lead to me charging through the rooms and bouncing off the walls like an excitable toddler.

I get a "sick all over" feeling when I try to relax. Any form of exercise helps me relieve anxiety. It depends what kind of situation I am in. If I am in a position where I cannot move around much, (like sitting down and having to listen to someone) I usually just vibrate my hands and stomp my feet (like I am running). If I am in a wide-open space, I prefer to hop around like a kangaroo, and then just pace once I get tired of hopping.

rocking, rolling around, pressing my entire body against a hard surface, doing ridiculous repetitive pseudo-dance moves, bouncing around like a pogo stick, ice skating, rollerblading, running, and repeatedly throwing myself onto my mattress.

Bouncing around the room

I tear my fingernails and the skin around them until they bleed. This is where the pressure of my stresses is released.

Definitely rocking. I do it all the time, and lately I've been having trouble controlling it in public too. I just find it very soothing, and have been getting a lot of sensory overload lately. I do a lot of other things too, but that is the most obvious one.

Running around in clockwise circles while listening to music, or perhaps pacing back and forth on my toes while making hand gestures and listening to music