Tendency to touch things and bang on them.

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The aspie vs neuro view vid made me think of this....

If you are walking along a chain linked fence do you run your hands on it as you walk by and tap on the bars? or if you walk by a brick building do you tap the softish pad on either side of your hands onto the brick or sometimes knock like you would a door on surfaces to see if they are really hollow or solid or just to see the sound they might make. I once went to see a movie and when we were leaving there was one of those large pipe looking things that says "11 feet and under cannot pass" or something to that extent and I had to jump and slap it then it fell to the ground.

Any ways...does any one have an urge to touch, slap, stomp, hit, bang, rub random things?

I guess my touch and tone senses are sensitive so this allows for sometimes nice textures or tones.

i like touching things, investigating the textures and sounds that they can produce but i don't like any much on my hands at all so i don't touch many things outside as their usually coated in grease or dirt

Oh, I just loved to touch anything and everything when i was younger!

I just used to phase out and focus on every little detail, the sounds, texture, it's smell, I got so good at listening to things I could work out the vibration frequency to shatter it.

my best memory of this was when I was 7, and a council man had just paved the path with concrete. Just after he left I just had to go investigate the new addition. It hadn't dried and i left two handprints in the wet sludge, to this day they're still there.

I've kinda started doing it less, as I'm older. But every now and again, I still engage my senses with my environment!
And it is Brilliant!

Still do. Never really thought about it ever. Though, this is interesting to see posted. Maybe the texture is different in comparison to what I normally touch, and that's why...? I have no idea, Lul.

Yup ... if something catches my interest I have to touch it.

I can relate, although it was worse when I was little. I'd end up at the other end of the aisle in the grocery store or five clothing racks down at WalMart, just touching everything.
I don't know why it took so long for me to suspect AS; my life has been full of things like this.

I love to touch and smell eberrything when I walk around the neighborhood. I love knocking on things, like walls. And get up close to something and touch it and smell it and eggsamine it closely, yep yep yep. I also like to plaster things onto my hands and face. Today, I played for a long time with a piece of a food wrapper and rubbed the food wrapper on my face the whole time that I was talking to people. It just feels natural to do this for these sensory eggsperiences frequently.

I detect and artifact sensory data about whatever I experience. Sometimes people think that I am strange for associating scents with them, for example when I told a friend of mine that he and his family smell like leather, he asked me why I was smelling him. Really the whole process is very passive, I have very little control over what I record. I just notice certain things about people and objects that others tend not to, and it can be difficult to differentiate what data is considered normal, and what is esoteric.

Not with my hands. I have soft delicate hands. Now if I have a stick or twig I'll knock, bang or prod everything. If we go to any natural parks that's the first thing I look for, a suitable stick. Then I hold it in my hand the whole time while we walk, use it to prod, point at things or just wave it and hear that whippy noise. DH thinks it's a bit immature, but hey it's cheap thrill and I never take the stick with me, always leave it at the park, so it's not like I took any public property.

Yeeeeessssss!! ! If it looks like it feels interesting, whether it be shiny, rough, thin (like a thin, flowy fabric), squishy, smooth... on and on, I have to touch it.

I often pull leaves off of plants that I pass just because I have to feel them in my hands. I like to tell people how leaves on northern plants tend to differ from leaves on southern plants (leaves in my native New Jersey were often thin, flexible, with very pronounced "veins"... leaves here in south Florida are waxy, sometimes thick, sometimes with soft little "hairs"... I can explain why, too, but I'm probably already rambling on enough...)

I also like to kiss my boyfriend's forehead, because it gives me a chance to run my lips just millimeters above his skin and feel all the little "peach fuzz" hairs on his face... I feel it much easier with my lips than with my fingers. (Luckily, he thinks it's sweet when I do it, hehe.)

I always like pushing buttons in the toy sections at stores like Bop It toys and those stuffed animals that make noise when ya squeeze their hand etc.

I always run my hand along walls as I'm walking or tap on corners or any protrusions in the wall. I also just like to tap on all sorts of different things to see what sounds they make. I like to think I'm just making a list of sounds to use for a future album

i touch random fabrics in places like supermarkets, and i randomy grab family members arms and giggle/stim.