Lying/sitting on your hands/arms

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11 Oct 2012, 11:21 am

I usually do this when my carpal tunnel syndrome and RA symptoms flare up. Something about the heat generated from my body and pressure helps temporarily.

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11 Oct 2012, 12:06 pm

Valkyrie2012 wrote:

League_Girl wrote:

I only sit on my hands to keep myself from stimming.

It is very bad for you to suppress your stims. It can even cause depression. We stim for a reason - allow yourself that freedom if not for anything other than your health. I made myself a stimming necklace - it helps heaps and is acceptable by all the NT's that have no clue why you do it so much.

As for this post answer - I sit on my hands and feet too. A lot of the time I put my foot to sleep then limp around swearing to never do it again...

I have to do it when my husband drives because my hand motions are distracting to him and if I don't sit on my hands I'll never be able to keep them still.

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11 Oct 2012, 4:47 pm

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I constantly do that. In bed I usually sleep on my stomach with my arms under my body. When I sit on a chair I often find that my hands have found their way under my thighs. (Not sexual in any way. :wink:

) I just like pressure on my arms/hands.

Do you do the same?

Yes I do. I like the pressure on my hands and arms. Also if a chair has armrests, instead of sitting on my hands I often press my arms very hard on to the armrests, almost with enough pressure to lift me out of the seat. And if I'm in a seat like at the cinema then I'll often trap my arms between the sides of the seat and my body. I just really like the pressure and I know it helps to calm me down in some circumstances.

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15 Oct 2012, 5:12 pm

Sit on my hands, bouncing.

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15 Oct 2012, 8:19 pm

Sanctus wrote:

) I just like pressure on my arms/hands.

Do you do the same?

Yeah, I sit on my hands a lot. It's not really a conscious thing; I kind of do it automatically, though I constantly stim or fiddle with my hands otherwise.

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15 Oct 2012, 11:32 pm

Yes.

On one of these tests was a question that said, "Do you ever feel like you don't know what to do with your arms?" I just about jumped out of the chair when I read that. My first thought was, OMG,HOWDIDYOUKNOW? Then I took a breath, and that was the exact moment I went from wondering to knowing. Ohhhhhh, yeah. OK. This is it. Aspergers.

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16 Oct 2012, 1:30 am

I sit on my hands and sleep on my arms. I like the feeling. Maybe it's a type of stim? I don't know.

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16 Oct 2012, 2:27 am

I always sleep on my stomach with my hands under me. Gives me deep pressure when my girfriend isn't around to give me it.

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16 Oct 2012, 6:53 am

Only one hand.

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