Your current FAVORITE stim

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The most definitive one for me. Not simply the current one.
* drumming fingers *
Constantly.
I'm sort of doing it right now, while typing.
It is something that I usually do in a mildly-conscious way.
I'll notice I'm doing it, and get into it... shape and control it.
Then I'll let go again, and it just carries on... expressing nameless, endless rhythmical patterns.

pretending a mobile suit or fighter or spaceship and fight in battles like the Battle of Loum in Universal Century Gundam (s**t,t he whole One Week War), the Second Battle of Jachin Due in Gundam Seed and some Star Wars Battles. I twitch and move like that sometimes and pretend i'm in those battles

I rub my eyebrows a lot. I've always done it, even as a baby. My eyebrows are patchy so I had them tattooed with semi permanent make-up, but I rubbed the tattoo away. I'm very newly diagnosed and still finding out about things - would eyebrow rubbing be considered stimming?

i flail my fingers in a kind of "piano playing in the air" way.
i do not move my arms, but i lift my hands and then do chordal run style finger exercises in the air. i can stop it if people are watching, but i like to do it. it seems to drain superfluous energy out of my spinal chord.
i like to get a real keyboard under my hands and then it is not a stim any more.

Simply stimming topic

1. Rubbing palms of my hands on my thighs while sitting
2. hair twirling using either hand.
3. Using tip of tongue to feel inside my bottom teeth

i have so many stims but my current new one thats been happening in the past couples month which i love lol is standing up and turning my head upside down and almost falling on the ground lolol idk why i looove being upside down, kinda reminds myself of martianchild with the kid upside down while the dad is reading haha. Other then that my other fav is headshaking.

When sitting: shaking my legs
When lying: rocking
When standing: pacing

Last edited by Amik on 06 Jan 2009, 6:30 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Spinning in my spinny chair! Wheee!

Spinning on the chair is awesome.

My favorite usually is, dancing and singing, then I love to squeal and make funny noises, all of which I only do at home.

I'm pretty much always stimming in some manner or other.

While sitting or lying down, one foot or the other is always bouncing, tapping or shaking. I often "texture stim", repetitively running my fingers across any coveniently accessible objects with appropriately stimmy textures. Otherwise, my fingers are tracing patterns back and forth or twirling my hair. When the hands and feet are stopped, my teeth tap together lightly.

When standing, I am either pacing (especially if I have to talk on the telephone, which I hate) or gently swaying, either in a side-to-side rocking-type motion or a gentle twist-at-the-hip pattern. I also have a very fast leg-shaking stim. Quite simply, it is extremely uncomfortable to stand still for more than a second or two, so some type of motion is necessary to make it tolerable.

And there's the verbal stims, usually taking the form of randomly repeating a word or two, usually in another language. Current fave: "lepinja".

There is always a tune playing in the "jukebox" in my head to keep time for these stims. I have yet to determine if all of this activity shuts down when I finally manage to fall asleep.

I pace all the time too when I'm on the phone, or when I'm thinking deeply. Standing/sitting still is so uncomfortable.


Me too. It drives other people nuts. They always tell me to stop it, but I usually start again soon, because half the time I don't even notice I'm doing this.


It's interesting that you mention that. I thought I didn't stim in my sleep, but recently I found out that I do, at least occasionally. Not long ago my hubby woke me up one night and asked me if I was alright. I had no idea what he was talking about and why he felt the need to ask, because I felt fine. The day after he told me he had woken up in the middle of the night and seen me shaking a lot in bed, which made him worried. When he described the way I was shaking I recognized it as one of my stims. I just didn't know I did it in my sleep.

Wiggling on my bed.