My mom is always asking me to stop flapping my hands

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I don't stim exactly, but when I'm feeling really stressed and agitated about something and I'm having a bit of a rant about it to my family, I find myself pressing my hand on to my face (like a lot of people do in despair) then sliding my hand all the way down my face, still pressing on to my face, and then firmly hitting my leg. It's like a tense expression of despair. And my mum always yells at me for doing it, she goes, ''stop flapping your body!'' But I find by doing that I am not causing any harm to myself or anybody else or objects. I don't know why I've took to doing this for, I didn't used to do this. Luckily I don't do it out in public.