Involuntary jerk

Post Reply New Topic

Not sure whether this has a name/is dyspraxia related. Sometimes when I'm stirring stuff in a frying pan or saucepan my hand will do an involuntary jerk.

That's probably a tic... if you've lots of them it's called Tourette's.

I wouldn't say I have a lot of them , but it's happened on more than a few occasions.

That happens to me from time to time.

This subject line, without reading the actual contents of the post, could be interpreted in two ways:

-You have an involuntary jerk, which could be a result of Tourette's, which is often co-morbid with ASD.
-You are an involuntary jerk, which could be the direct result of ASD.

Or both.

I don't have to be conscripted!

I volunteer!

^ Haha As long as you're not a premeditated jerk, that's what matters!

I sometimes get weird muscle spasms like that... Maybe something to ask your doctor about, if it's interfering with your ability to function, or causing dangerous situations?

Personally I just put it down as 'yet another weird thing about me - what's new?'

It seems to me to be a twitch more than a tic.

You need to have both motor and verbal tics to be dxed with Tourette's. I have motor tic disorder - no vocal tics (thankfully).

different things will cause me to have a big jerk, sometimes something will go crick in my back or neck which causes it. sometimes it is something I eat. I can't seem to predict when it will happen.

I can have body wide spasms if I stay still for too long. My brain can lose track of where my body is. It's similar to the jerking motion that some people experience as they're falling asleep, except I'm wide awake.

I get them mostly in my neck and lower arms and hands. They seem to be pretty random, though I'm definitely more prone to them when tired or stressed out. If they are happening only when you perform a certain action, there's also a chance it could related to posture - something putting pressure on a certain nerve where it passes a joint, for example.

When when I'm coming out of being hyper-focused, I get something similar to the "brain reconnecting with body" effect that KennyIOM mentioned, too. It feels like my body is testing all of the muscles beginning at my neck and working outwards to my hands and feet. It's more of a "writhe" than a "jerk", spread over a second or two, I only get the body-wide spasm if I'm on the edge of sleep (common for neuro-typical brains too, called the "hypnic jerk".)