Tourettes, stimming, what?

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There are some things I've always done that I never really thought were that strange, but of late they've seemed to intesify a little, and some new things have cropped up. I don't know if they're stims, or tourettes, or just some weird tics I got from my dad, either way....

Things like:

I get this weird feeling in my back and I can ignore it for a little while but eventually I kind of push forward with the muscles in my back, something like that, not sure how to describe the motion. Edit: On reconsideration, it's kind of like shrugging my shoulders but more involved then just in the shoulders.

Again, I get a weird feeling in my hands, and I press my thumb up under my finger nails and pull back the skin. Again, not sure how to describe the motion, but I can only stop myself from doing it for a little while and then I do it anyway.

Those are the two I just recently noticed, or at least with the finger thing wondered why I was doing it. There's a few other things, I won't go into them because trying to describe it is hard to do, don't really know how to honestly. But anyway, is this tourettes, stimming, some sort of ocd thing, or what?

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Okay, since that got redacted and I don't remember what it said........ Bump.

But, I do recall something about it not being stimming because it doesn't relieve anxiety.

However, I've read that stimming is usually bi-lateral and tics are usually neither bi-lateral or rhythmic, and one of the other things I do is rhythm beating with my hands on my legs and then intermittently clapping, to some sort of rhythm that I make up as I go, usually without thinking. >.> That is all.

A tic is literally a reflex. Sometimes it is due to stress but other times it is an instantaneous reflex to something that can can sometimes leave you wondering what caused it. Tic disorders can often snowball into increased tics so that at points can look like stimming. Snowballing, as I call it, usually only happens if you don't know that you have a tic disorder and is often very stressful.