How do you control your stims?

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I like to hum or sing to myself do do do do do (not really a song with words) just do do do do do! Or humming (one of the two) and my parents don't seem to like it. Not sure socially why I do it or personally why???? Sort of calming IMO gets your mind off of what you are doing. Some people choose to do actual music when doing chores (to get there mind off of doing them) for me usually humming/noise thing do do do do).

Oh go do it in your room! (they say) I have no reason to do it in my room???? I'm quiet on my computer or game/t.v. etc. so no reason to do it no calming affect needed IMO.

Any help or suggestions?????

I used to hum and flap my fingers a lot in pubic because I wasn't aware of it.
Now I'm aware of it and I don't want people to think I'm autistic so I just do less obvious things like scrape my finger nails on my jacket cuffs and wiggle my toes. It is calming and makes me feel pulled together to know where my hands and feet are. I hum and make clicking noises in noisy environments but not in quiet environments.
Other than that I don't try to control stimming because i like it.

Some people verbally stim to sort of "block out" or counterbalance the speech - or even just the presence - of others.

I vocally stim that a lot, mostly when I'm in a loud environment. I usually do it at a volume at which it would be hard to notice (I think) over the other sounds going on, and when things get louder I hum louder. It helps with sensory overload because in addition to being a stim it sort of blocks out the noise. I also sometimes sing and talk to myself for simelar reasons. Nobody has given me a hard time over it though.

I like to do a kind of flapping thing with my hands. Sometimes I pass it off as kind of tapping a rhythm, but mostly if I want to stop, I sit on my hands. Then I get this tendancy to rock backwards and forwards or to hum. So to deal with that I make the rocking motion really small so it's not very noticable and I concentrate on following my breathing - not changing it or anything, just watching what it does. I do these things because the rhythm helps to calm me down. If I can get myself to the point where I'm focusing on breathing then I feel like I've won becuase breathing is always allowed and it's a rhythm too (except in a chest xray when they tell you to hold you breath for a few seconds.)

Another thing I do sometimes if I'm stressed is I put earphones in and hold my phone or mp3 player in view so people can see it - then if people see me tapping a rhythm or rocking, they just think I'm moving to the music (I hope). The secret is though I don't like listening to music - I actually listen to the Harry Potter stories read by Stephen Fry - which also calm me down.