Real talk - who else does this?

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For as long as I can remember I have the strange urge to press my fingertips and toes really hard against a surface. It’s like I’m scratching a hard to define itch and it can be really distracting. It’s not soothing or sore and there’s no reason for it other than a weird feeling in my fingertips and toes. Is this a stim? Do other people do this?

I also have the same kind of thing with my throat. It’s a kind of sqweaking noise I make that sounds a bit like a gerbil and I also do that for the same reason - to scratch the “itch”.

Does that sound like stimming or have I been living with mildly annoying tics my whole life?

Sounds very much like a stim. I'm not sure whether I do it or not, but I can certainly say that a lot of my stims do seem to be about pressure or even very mild pain (pinching myself, squeezing thumb against finger, even biting my hand hand or arm)

I've done that for as long as I can remember. I never even realized it was probably a stim.

I also do this, I didn't even think about it until I read your post. I can also relate to the odd noise making. I would imagine these are both stims.

I do it, but I usually press down my nails instead of the finger tips. Not the edge of them, but the flat side. It's strangely satisfying.