How do you stim?

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thumb sucking
hand flapping
nail biting
staring into space
irritating people

paceing and talking to myself
bouncing my knee
swinging this thing i have (has no other useful use)

At home there's frequently a koosh ball in my hands.
At work there's a ballpoint pen I've been disassembling and reassembling a couple of dozen times a day for a while now. I'll also pace around enough to get weird looks from my coworkers.

I stim
You stim
We all stim for ice cream

me ill like to wrap my self in my weigth planket ,bite my fingers...and when in class i rock whith my chair sometimes,oh and then my faforite...leg drumming during mucik this is one i like to do also when driving

My most common is swaying when I stand, I do it to some extent every time I stand (I didn't know I did such), and curling my hand up against my chest when I walk.

I shake my two fingers closest to my little finger back and forth, sometimes my whole hands.
I also talk and sing to myself.

bouncing my leg up and down repeatedly, and twisting and pulling my fingers

I tap the tip of each finger in turn with the tips of my thumbs, I rub my thumbnails over the inside of my fingers, I rub my palms together and when I'm really excited, I flap my hands. I also keep repeating stuff in my head.

I jiggle my leg/foot incessantly. Press my tongue against my teeth. Chew my lip. Get up randomly and pace (when I am thinking). Make the 'church temple' with my fingers and bend/flex them. Rub my thumbs together. I'm obsessed with keeping my fingernails as short as possible and with no thickened skin, so I'll sit there and 'trim' my fingertips without really thinking about it, also. Rubbing my skin until it's a little raw. 'Cleaning' my ears with a finger. Turn my space-heater on and off so I get blasts of hot air. Sometimes I rock a bit. Yeah, I have lots of little sensory stims. I can control most of them to some extent except for the leg-jiggling.

Rock back and forth, bite my nails, bite the insides of my cheeks, fiddle with stuff (like my purse, pencils, lighters etc).

put my hand to my mouth, click my pen (which i broke cause of it), tappmy fingers o the table , whissle and go to my imanarie world.

Actually, the swaying and curled up hand thingy aren't "stims" (they're motor mannerisms); I don't really have anything, well, I guess I rub my facial hair because I like the feeling.

I remember I used to have a blanket that I'd constantly rub when I was little (<4 or so).

I have a pinball/ball baring/whatever and i squeeze on it/run it through my hands/roll it in my closed fist anytime I can, which is usually all the time. I also bite my fingernails, the skin on the tip of my fingers or tap my fingers rhythmically (usually to the percussion of the song i'd be listening to).

Sometimes my left leg (it's always the left leg) will bounce up and down like a hummingbird (but i've seen several dozen NTs - including my own sister - do it. I just think it's something people do and has nothing to do with my AS).

Stimming? I love stimming. I seem to stim constantly. Not all of these are probably stims, but I'm sure most of them at least are.

Rocking, swaying while standing, rubbing my palms on my pants, biting my lip, rubbing my hands together, scribbling, clicking pen open and closed, liggling my leg, tapping my feet, crossing my legs and/or feet, turning my hand inward, picking at my fingernails, tapping my fingers in a rhythm, throwing and catching things in the air (with moderate success) while pacing in my room, pacing in general, touching and fiddling with things, constantly adjusting the volume for no reason when listening to my iPod, sighing, twitching my nose, spinning, hopping around on tiptoe, making random noises, and probably a few others that maybe aren't as obvious.