What are your stims?

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Repeated vocalizations (mix of verbal & nonverbal), shake small items and watch how they respond, flick my fingers against the side of my head--always the right, even though I am left handed.

I tend to flap and run around on the spot very often, along with bouncing up/down and making random squeaking noises. I also slowly repeat sentences as well many times over, and that pretty much sums up all of my stims

Most of mine are pretty subtle or innocuous...to the point where I didn't even realize they were things until I re-framed my perspective a little bit with some greater understanding of the spectrum.

*White sitting, I bob my knee up and down....to the point where I can shake floor boards and tables without realizing it. This was the first thing I realized was even a stim at all; I had written it off as a nervous habit for so long that thinking of it within the context of stimming kind of blew my mind.
*Flipping/spinning/twirling objects.
*Picking at blemishes, facial and otherwise
*Pacing while thinking
*I don't know if this counts, but I prop my head in my hand while thinking or reading...which drives my wife somewhat nuts, because I dig my head into my head so hard that my cheek is often bruised from my thumb. I don't even realize I'm doing it.

I've been recently playing with the plug on my Nintendo DS charger. It makes this crisp, pleasurable creaking sound when I flip it in and out.