I stim all.day.long

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Hi. I was just wondering whether other people do this or whether they're aware if they do/not..
In retrospect, I see my stimming behaviours but not at the time. Here is everything that I do in 1 day (not sure if all of them are stims, though):
compulsively nail bite (doing it for 10 years, I'm 17) I'm ashamed of it, but I don't care. I repeat the same bit of song about 200 times/song (no exaggeration). I often body rock, leg bounce, scratching skin, hair pulling, echolalia, muscle contractions (purposely),chewing plastic/nails, repetitively play a certain game on my phone for hours (doing the same sort of thing) it's called Candy block (its really good bad but hey lol).
I'm at home a lot of the time because I hate going out, so most of these are just "natural" however when I do go out and get overwhelmed (which is easy!) I tend to hand flap etc.
I know that the (majority) of things I do aren't directly dangerous to myself or others, does anyone else do things like this and they're unaware when there is no specific stimulus causing it?

Stimming is totally fine, but things like hair pulling or nail biting could make you feel guilty or ashamed, which is a bad thing.
That's why I ordered some stuff on stimtastic (website I found here in some thread) and I'm eagerly waiting for it (really difficult since I don't live in the US).

I do just about all the stims you mentioned at home as well. My stimming gets a lot worse during the school year, when I'm under more stress (even though I like school, it's way too overwhelming for me). Most of the time I am aware that I am stimming, I believe. Things that I wouldn't do in public I have not noticed myself subconsciously doing. It is a natural behavior if I am in the same area however- so if I stim a lot in a certain chair, I will always stim a lot in that chair, but not necessarily in other places. I listen to the same song over and over more than you LOL . On the occasion I will catch myself doing something I was unaware of, but I catch it pretty quickly. I also have tics, but that's a whole different thing- I do usually notice I'm doing those as well, though .

I'm pretty much constantly stimming in one way or another (at least). Sometimes I'm aware of it, sometimes not. Oftentimes I will only become aware of it once I've been doing it for a while, unless it's particularly vigorous. My most frequent ones are rocking back and forth, flicking or shaking my hand (for some reason, my hand stims are almost always with only my left hand), humming, whispering nonsense, making a kind of snarling noise and jerking my head, breathing extremely rapidly, and pounding on my chest, and any small object near me, like a pen, is probably going to be fiddled with. I also have one of these, and love it. When I'm very excited, I will involuntarily start to flap my left hand. I'm aware of it, but I can't stop it until I've already started.

I too stim in a variety of ways, like rocking, leg shaking (when seated), touching my hair/beard/face, drumming/tapping on tables and surfaces (learning percussion undoubtedly fostered this one). You could probably count squeezing pimples as stimming too.

I find that my mind tends revisit one of a handful of phrases/questions (e.g what day is it tomorrow?) when I'm waiting on something or otherwise idle/unoccupied. Context permitting, sometimes I verbalise them.

I find that my stimming generally creeps up on me. The action itself tends to be more relevant to how quickly I notice than anything else. I can shake my leg for several minutes without noticing, but I tend to be more aware of things like tracing my fingers over the borders of my facial hair

All the time.

Can't say I ever did all that "all day long" but I just like to squeeze and pinch soft stuff or rub it on my face. I like stuff that's either soft or fuzzy or both