Twisting hair = stim ?

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So i have been twisting strands of my hair for years now. I do not have any other rituals that i consider to be possible stims.
Does anyone else do this ?.

yes absolutely

ive been doing it since i was a teenager.

its usually my eyebrows and private regions. i mainly twist but sometimes pull them out the skin.

i used to chew my hair. i quit because i got a bad grade in "is neat and clean" for doing it.

ok that sounds quite disturbing tbh, i was talking about hair on the head...

errr... whats the difference really?

trichillomania.

Yes, I twist/twirl my hair all the time. Stroke it, too.
A lot of people seem to think it's quite a feminine behaviour for some strange reason.

by twisting i mean actually twisting the hair round so that it can be pulled out rather than just twisting it round the fingers in a thoughtful way.

Ok i thought you said you pulled the hair out of your skin, which would hurt a hell of a lot i gues .

i did. the majority of it is twisting but i do pull it out. not on my head though. it causes minor pain but if its somewhere it would hurt too much then i wouldnt pull it from that area.

I twist my hair all the time. I play with it in other ways too.

Twirling, twisting, spinning, swinging... Aspies just love rotating objects. In first grade I used to swing my arm around in circles like an imaginary airplane propeller almost to the point of dislocating my shoulder. Of course it might also be said that this is non-Aspie behavior since it demonstrates imaginative play.

I twist my hair allot and don't do any other rituals, It could be a way of stimming.

I play with my hair all the time. I also pull out hairs one by one, especially if I'm anxious. I try not to for fear of developing a full-blown case of trichitellomania.

do you just yank them out really quick or do you twist them into a breakable position and then yank them out?