your hands when sitting and standing

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Are your hands open when you sit or stand?

Are they relaxed?

Do you ball one hand up in a fist?

Do you ball two hands up?


I have one hand closed balled up in a fist when I sit. Often when I stand too. I am not thinking anything violent either. It just seems natural for me. What about you?

I hand wring and also dig nails into my arms when sitting, especially if I'm anxious (which is a lot of the time!)

When standing, if I am standing around and nervous, I'll do the same.

If I have something to carry, like my handbag, I will rest my hand or both hands on it.

I am always finger drawing on the arm chair or whatever is in front of me.

I use to have this problem all the time when I was a teenager: what should I do with might hands when I'm not using them?

For the most part, I don't care anymore. I have resigned myself to be a bit off all the time.

I wring my hands a lot, especially when I'm sitting, so that generally means they're open. Otherwise they're usually just hanging relaxed, or sometimes closed, but not tense like a fist.

Sometimes, especially when I've just awoken, one of my hands (usually the left) will close itself and resist opening. It's not like a fist. It's curled with my the fingertips placed on the palm. I can force it open, but it's very shaky and then closes again when I relax. After some time, this always goes away, and my hand hangs normally again.

Depends on the context really. I can drum/punch my thighs, wring my fists, rub my fingers together, cross and rotate around each digit, drawing round shapes and patterns around me or do nothing with them. I used to repress my stimming so I would try to get away without doing anything. sometimes I lost self control and found myself slipping off my chair and drawing around the pasterns on a carpet and so on.

When standing: My arms are almost always crossed. Or with my thumbs in my belt loops. I hate the feeling of my arms just hanging there limp, they need to be elevated. Of course doing this makes people think I'm angry/rude/antisocial...

When sitting: I do a number of things. Sit on my hands, wring my fingers/hands, tap/scratch my thighs, playing with my lips with my fingers, etc.

My hands are normally open when I'm not doing any of the above things. I don't like the feeling of a closed fist.

Mine naturally clench. If they're not then I'm sitting on them. Or I'm cracking my knuckles loudly and often and driving everyone around me mad...

I never know what I should do with my hands then. When I'm standing, I try to keep them behind my back because it would look stupid if they were dangling loosely.

Haha, I crack my knuckles all the time. I was once told by an elementary teacher that it would cause me to have lange knuckles when I got older. So I said "okay" and cracked them at her.
She said something about how girls wouldn't like to have large knuckles, and I reminded her that I was not a girl. Why do people so often tell me things like this, and what does it have to do with anything?