Clenched hands?

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I'm extremely sensitive on my hand palms. Dry textures can be a problem and I must have a moisturizer at all times because if I wash my hands I can't touch anything right after. It gets to the point when even air is troublesome.

So, throughout my life, I've heard comments like 'why do you always have your hands clenched?'. I didn't really pay much attention, it just made me feel better, so I did it. With time I became more and more aware of it and now try to avoid it in public. But looking at old pictures I realized that I really did that a lot.

I never considered that stimming, not even bothered to mention to any psychologist, because it's not a repetitive movement - only a repetitive behavior. It does fit the 'doing it to make my body feel right' aspect, though. I was wondering, could that be stimming? Does anyone else go through that?

Who knows? It could be stimming.

Being hyper-sensitive, in general, I believe promotes stimming.

You're sensitive to dry hands (that might not be "hyper-sensitive), so you try to give yourself relief.

That's why autistic people stim, by and large: to give themselves relief.

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