Stimming vs. fidgeting

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To those for who stim/fidget to help concentrating:
Is it when you concentrate on reading something, or when listening to someone, or when concentrating on your own thoughts?

My fidgeting is clearly nervous and connected with discomfort, and it often occurs without my own knowledge, - often in rooms with many (more than five) people.

My pacing, rocking and flapping is release of nervous energy, - calming, soothing, so I pace in order not to freak out.
Maybe the pacing activity and the pattern, I "draw" pacing serves a stabilizing, centering purpose.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUG7wlZmrfs[/youtube]

I found this video very interesting because it seems to go along with my inability to find my way around places and my lack of awareness of my surroundings outside of what I'm looking at.

I tend to pull my hair or breathe deeply, I find it soothes me. I also cross my legs and press my feet together. doesn't get better than that lol

I always have to be moving and it's a always a rhythmic motion and I feel really weird if I stop.
But if I stop it starts right up again.

When I concentrate on reading or listening to someone. I have never noticed problems concentrating on my own thoughts. It's more a problem of "turning off" my own thoughts to focus on something outside of me.

To me fidgeting is about attention and focus and stimming is about CALMING anxiety and stress

I agree.
Stimming is self-stimulating behavior, which is what is needed when stress/tension/anxiety is threatening to build up.
Fidgeting might - in a mild way - serve the same purpose by preventing inner tension/mental hyper-activity from disturbing the focus.

I often play with something. I often click on a pen or I break it down and fold it. Sometimes I draw at the meetings in my job, it's less disturbing than click on a pen. Or I play with anything else that's right at hand. I think it helps with concentration and calming so I do not know how to name it.