What does staring at your palm mean?

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In my neighbourhood there is a teenager who is behaviourally challenged and attends some special school, but I don’t think he is ret*d. He is very taciturn, often smiles at some inward joke and regularly stares at his left palm, occasionally several times in a row as if reading something there (but it is blank). I wonder whether that is some sort of stimming behaviour and he is an Aspie?

I do that all the time. But only because I have deformed carpals and metacarpals that gives me a large bump that... for some reason... I keep looking at all the time.

As for the question at hand (pun intended. ) I have no idea.

Probably a stim,he might like the lines and shapes that make up the hand.

A guess: he could be feeling something on his palm and checking to see if there's anything there?

I sometimes feel as if there's an ant walking on my arm and check occassionaly.

Palm piloting topic

I used to do that a lot, especially when I was a kid. In the bad old days there used to be weed killer in the form of very small white beads scattered on people's front lawns and someone I was walking with on the way home from school asked me to pick some up and hold it in my palm for about ten seconds and then drop it. Another kid came along and told me there would be a hole in the middle of my palm because I was holding the weed killer(apparently he thought it would eat a hole in my hand). Thereafter I would look at my palm a lot more because I thought this would happen. Of course, it never did. NTs can be very sadistic.

This is an example of a stim that became an obsession.

The lines on my hand make up some kinda strange shapes at the base of my palms, so I often stare at them, wondering what they are supposed to mean....(i don't really believe in palmistry...i am just mildly vulerable to it)

When bored I work, I sometimes sit there and stare at a box of dish deteregent. Staring helps me concentrate on my thoughts sometimes.

I used to stare at my hands quite a bit when I was bored and had nothing else to stem on.

I see my initial on my palm, and it is cool to look at once in a while. Does his name start with an "M" too?

BTW I think my initial is on almost everyones palms.

i used to look at my hands like that before. its probably a reaction to over stimulation, maybe there is another world living on his hand and hes god giving moses the ten commandments leading his people out son

I do that as a way to shut myself off from others around me.

There are some callous parts either from weight lifting or maybe even from when I played drums (most likely only the former but I'm never sure for some reason). The back of it can sometimes become dry. I explore all that but I don't really need to.

I've always liked staring at the corners of my ceiling from some odd reason all my life. I just like looking at the line.

It means;

"You can't see me!"

(Wrestling joke! )

I do this sometimes when talking to people--I think it's just that I need to focus my eyes somewhere, instead of staring into space, and looking at one's hand seems like a good way to do this.