Do people around you complain about your stimming?

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i dont ever stim in public

Well thanks for the positive comments I agree it might be an embarrassment but I don't do it in public and usually just at home but at odd times either nervous (like another poster said) or get this when you are talking to me?? Odd you are talking to me and I'm moving my clasp/ring I think you'd think I wasn't listening or it distracts from her speaking to me etc. Truthfully why should I be nervous when family are talking to me (usually in a nice conversation not anything angry mind you) Thanks again!! !

I often bounce my legs when I'm reading or writing an exam or even just on the pc here. Usually its more of a side-to-side motion that I do to avoid disturbing anybody with the noise. Most often I don't noticeably stim because when I get the urge I usually clench my fist until it stops shaking. I don't understand what people's issues with stimming are, I remember there were students in my high school who I think back upon as probably having AS that did this frequently and would often get a lot of flak from teachers and other students. On the other hand, there were students in the class lighting s**t on fire in the back or rolling joints so I fail to see the comparison in disturbing people or making them uncomfortable.

My dad taps his foot and he has ADHD, my bf does the same too and I tell him to stop because it vibrates the couch and it annoys me. He doesn't realize he is doing it so I have to tell him. I also tap mine.

My mother used to chew her nails she said but I dunno how old she was when she stopped. I knew plenty of kids in my school who tapped their pencils and we all found it annoying, messed with things like their bracelets, and of course drumming their fingers.

I remember when I drummed my fingers on my notebook in the special ed room, the special ed teachers made a big deal about it.

One of my boyfriends gave me a little slap on the hand if I scratched my hands/arms or grinded my teeth. I'm not sure if teeth grinding is a stim.
I get weird looks from my teeth licking stim.

I am on the other side. I am the one who suffers from stimming. My classmates bounce lags, click pens, drum with their pensils. It is generally ok, but I really cannot concentrate when I write an exam or a test or listen to the lecture when there is something moving or jumping or bumping or clicking around me. Just cannot focus. So I have hard time... even though those people (I guess?) are mostly NTs.

yes.

I get told that I do all of these things with varying degrees of reprimand, depending on the person and situation:

drum my fingers incessantly (I'm even sort of doing it now, as I am typing), tapping fingers or feet, patting knees, swinging feet, bouncing feet, rocking, swaying, nodding head, or any combination of these.

My mother half-jokingly complains when I bounce my foot constantly at the dinner table (her way of pointing it out is to say "Rachel, your foot is having a fit"; which I find quite funny.)
My brothers both do it as well; I can see how it'd be annoying to have the floor shaking when you're trying to eat (and I'm sure it doesn't help that even if we manage to stop when someone complains, it gets changed into drumming our cutlery on the table ).