Stimming?

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So i think thats what its called.
But do you do this or am i the only one? I walk over to one objects feel it then walk back and i do this over and over. till im calm and have chilled out.

It could be part of it-that you like to touch the surface of what you are touching and the repetitive action can be calming to you also-I do things like that too.

I do not know if any of these count as stimming or are just repetitive habits or behaviours that I have but:

Possible Stims:

I rub a piece of material that I carry around with me...I rub it intermittently throughout the day whether I am stressed or not as I just like rubbing it.

I also walk around talking to myself lol

Most likely repetitive habits/behaviours:

Alternatively I absorb myself in my hobby, which at the moment is sequin art, as it involves repetitively pushing sequins into a polystyrene board lol. It's relaxing. I am also determined to collect all the available kits and complete them all...I have 15 of them so far (4 of which I have completed, 1 which I am presently working on, and 10 of which I have stocked up in my arts and crafts cupboard) but there are still 36 to get my hands on. Still, at least the collection won't get as large as my cross stitch collection which was my interest before I found the Sequin art and which will most likely cycle back round once I have achieved my Sequin art mission and there are no more kits to buy lol. When it comes to cross stitch though I must have over 50 kits in my stash as well as over 3 years of stitching magazines with charts in that I will not part with. I will soon be running out of space for them lol.

I also listen to the same song over and over again or watch the same movie (my dvd collection is quite large as well as I once had a thing for collecting those too lol).

I need a bigger house I think...

Edited to adjust my math! 10, 4 and 1 does not 14 make. 15 is the answer lol.

I have a piece of slik which I run through my fingers over and over again. I only do this when I'm in the house as I look like a kid with their 'blanky'.

Ouside if I'm stressed, I seem to have devloped this habit lately of making my hand into a fist and scraping my nails up and down the plam til I'm away from the suituation.

I feel material sometimes too................my main stim is twirling a string ....................and yes what you described sounds like stimming.

I stim. I tend to simply rock back and forth when I am at home (rarely if I'm out and about) and excited. If I am very excited or very upset, I will (without being aware of it) rock and hand- flap. My wife was the first one to realize I had symptoms of Autism. Her younger son is deeper in the spectrum than I am.
I also tend to play with my ears. They are pretty soft and smooth, and I always liked their feel...

Jacs, I also dig my fingernails into my palms in stressful situations.

SO MANY STIMMING THREADS.

Someone just make a sticky... please?

dose pacing count as a stim?

Hmm, I like to touch my stone beads. I never thought of it as stimming, but maybe it is. I also like to rub my face on my cats.

I'm trying to stop myself doing it but haven't had much luck.

I got dragged out to a garden centre last week by my parents, I really didn't want to go, and then they bumped into people they know from church, who expected me to to talk to them and before I knew it I had two bleeding hands

I've tried a stress ball but it didn't work. It doesn't seem to be something I can control.

There are a variety of things I do to relax myself, some which are barely noticeable to others and others which I try not to do around people I care about because they would get embarrassed (but may well be seen to do "in public" if I am by myself).

I've noticed at the moment my most regular thing is to really stretch out my hand to maximum tension (fingers splayed, bending away from the palm), often followed by a gentle wiggling of the fingers, and then closing hand into a tight fist, then repeat as necessary. It feels good, it relaxes me, can be done almost anywhere with one hand or two, and usually goes unnoticed by others so it is good for all situations. Plus it can be easily hidden in pockets, under desks etc. when it's important to not look "weird".

I've also noticed a tendency to clap randomly . Sometimes several claps like a round of applause, sometimes just one clap. I'm not sure what this is about. I do it, and then go "why did I do that?". It kind of takes me by surprise.

I do the clapping thing when I get excited or am very happy.

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I also have some semi involuntary twitch type behaviours but don't class them as stims. As a child I would twitch my nose and the other children would run away from me saying I was pulling faces at them. In those days though I was unable to suppress it. Eventually the nose twitch wore off but in my adult years I have different ones that I am able to suppress more. They are not completely voluntary but not involuntary either...it's kind of the same feeling you get when you need to scratch an itch or something.

One is a need to constantly sniff (less frequent and mostly when I am stressed)
The other is a low volume grunting/clicking noise I make with my throat whilst moving my chin in a particular way (a sort of shaking movement that's voluntary and not like an involuntary muscular tic).
Sometimes I can get the urge to move my chin without making the grunting noise.

The other is listed above (talking to myself) and which seems to work in two different ways. I enjoy doing it when I am alone but not when it happens out in a populated area. I.e I like walking around the house talking to myself, I like walking up a country lane alone talking to myself (although I stop if I see someone coming) about whatever my brain is thinking about (and indeed do it voluntarily) but when I am out and about and I suddenly find that I am talking to myself it can be a bit embarrassing. I can suppress it when others are around but sometimes my brain does have a glitch and seems to insist on thinking loudly. It can sometimes be a case of brain - thought - out of mouth lol.

So I might be walking along thinking about doing my sequin art later, but rather than just think it my brain will actually decide to say it as well. I stop myself when I do catch myself doing it in public though as I don't want to look like the mad woman walking along the road nattering to herself lol.

I remember once making a very long and very verbose forum post to which someone replied by saying "Do you have to say every thought you have?". It related to a different type of incidence but I did sit there and think..."well, actually.....errr sometimes yes" lol.

Brain = thought = out of mouth!

Interesting. I'm not very good at identifying how I'm feeling at a particular time ... but that could be it.
I will be paying attention and remember to ask the question each time now to try to identify it...

I have so many. They drive my mom crazy if I do them around her. I try to pass them off as nervous tics, but she says that I can control them completely. I can't. It is like having a constant itch that I have to scratch.
I exfoliate my face all day with my fingers, chew on my hands, contort my face, and do quite a lot of rocking on top of that.

I meow like a cat from time to time.