Do you curl your hands?

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I experiance that quite often myself

I freeze and become stiff as a stick when I think about something I regret or anything too emotionally bearable. NTs don't seem to do that. I've always taken that to be simply an effect of very strong emotions, but then I read on some aspie info site that it's common, so I guess that counts as well. But I'm pretty high on the ADHD scale as well, so maybe it's not a genuine aspie treat after all. Hmm. =)
My theory is that apsies are more self aware and find it easier than NTs to critizise themselves for their mistakes since we're often more unemotionally analytical (emotions makes you deny), and also that in combination with the fact that we're often either/or rather than analoguous, so reactions become more intense - if I get angry e.g. it happens like I've been thunderstruck or not at all.

I've found that about myself too.

When i am walking forward, i will occasionally put my hands out in front of me, curled up like a bunny, overall it looks like i'm lurking. I do this whenever possible. ^_^

I curl my hands and wrists and stiffen my fingers when I'm anxious or nervous. It's almost the opposite of a stim: instead of movement, I completely flex my muscles in the lower arms/hands and sort of "freeze".

I also "freeze" when I am nervous or anxious and don't feel okay to stim (larger stims I mean). Like, if someone is making me nervous, I'll barely move instead of rocking back and forth.

It's almost as though "Maybe if I don't move they won't see me..."

Sometimes I have found myself sitting (usually on my foot) but I usually curl my other leg over the one that is under my bottom. Rarely though do I curl my hands in my lap ... But I have noticed it if I am immersed in something on the internet.. I when at my desk am usually leaning on an arm in one position or another.
The staring off in space thing.. that happens alot if I am not interested in the subject, while I am driving (I get lost in my thoughts) or If I am having a hard time staying focused at work. I mainly whistle to keep focused (as a stim)<---just yesterday someone mentioned that I wouldn't be allowed to do that in the other building... and I said what? She saidwhistle all the time...I said I can'thelp it..
The rocking from side to side usually happens if I am talking to someone, and whe I notice it I usually stop.

I sit on one foot as well. I also stand on one foot a lot. My mother tells me I'm going to have a bad back, but I remind her that I already do, and can't sit up straight without experiencing back pain.
I just have to be comfortable.
In school I would always sit in the back of class so the other students wouldn't see how bizarre I looked while sitting in those awful chairs.

I rock when I'm in a situation in which I feel comfortable. I also dance on the spot, and bounce up and down, and generally don't tend to stand still. Unfortunately, like amny of my other stims, it annoys people so I get told to stop; not just because it looks 'weird.'

I tend to bend my hands by putting one hand over the other and bend it inwards. After reading this thread I realized that I usually sit on my left ankle. Interesting.

I noticed in middle school that I would clasp my hands together and put them between my thighs, pretty near my crotch. It wasn't at all sexual, it was partly protective, partly to keep warm, but I remember realizing at some point that I shouldn't be doing that in public. I think I've stopped doing it but I'm not sure. I've learned over the years that there are some things you can do in private that you just can't do in public.

whenver I am relaxed, I clasp my hands together and rest them on my gut (I am fat)

I'm more of a drummer and sewing-machine-leg kind of guy... but only in social situations. I've never really noticed weird things that I may do when I'm by myself... no one around to point them out to me, you know.

I sit with my left foot under me all the time, it's most comfortable. Im an NT.

Bland-My AS son will twirl his forelock and also make the same motion of bringing his hand swiftly to his forhead two or three times that Russel Crow did in A Beautiful Mind, the story of John Nash. When he was very young, he would zone out alot (so did I; and lost track of space and time). He would also spin around alot with his hand held at eye level and twirl his fingers. I always thought that he held his hand up as a focal point to prevent dizziness. He could twirl in circles forever and never get dizzy!