Shaky hands?

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Is this a symptom of Asperger's or anything? My mom has been saying for the past few weeks that my hands involuntarily shake. I notice it when I hold something with my right hand but not my left. She usually notices me doing that when I'm like under some strong pressure. Is it bad or what? If I concentrate on it it stops.

I don't think this is related to AS.Did you have a lot of caffeine or a stressful anxiety provoking activity lately...or a lot of physical exercise.

The first things I like to check out are medical..to rule out something that can lead to complications if left unchecked. There are three things that have made my hands shake over long periods of time

1) dehydration...I use to go on 20-30 mile bike rides with out hydrating and would shake like crazy afterwards...I didn't feel thirsty,so wasn't drinking enough. I was also pale and a bit disorientated and it is because I was in the first stages of heat stroke...ooops.

2)Low thyroid was evidently kicking my adrenal gland into over drive to compinsate.This actually lat over several months before I finally went into get it check out. I would recommend getting a GOOD thyroid check...Free T3, Free T4 is better then TSH but I can never get my GP to run that better test because she says it isn't necessary(contrary to the endocrinologist specialists which is what I should be going to see<----procrastinating out of not wanting to talk to a new person)

3)Some other cause of over release of adrynalin to your system....I don't know of all the ways this can happen but I do know it can happen and I think they can do tests for this as well as checking you cortizol levels<---indicator of stress. I need to go get this checked as well,but.... to shy.

I don't think any of those things will kill you (maybe the dehydration if left unchecked) but they aren't healthy either. Get some good blood work done and if they don't find anything head to a neurologist....hands should not shake.

I don't usually eat a lot of caffeine, and when I do lots of physical activity I drink plenty of water. Or...perhaps it may be caffeine, I am a kid, so yeah. Low thyroid? What's that mean?

The thyroid is a gland in your neck area that releases chemicals. Sometimes it doesn't relaese enough of them and it can be easily treated by taking a little inexpenssive pill. No big deal, just have to get a blood test. There are a lot of other symptoms that would also be present though...dry hair and skin, the shakiness, depression, some times fatigue.

It can happen to kids but it is much more comman in adults and femals...so that may not be it at all. Still, your hands shouldn't be shaking as far as an aspie thing unless you think it might be some kind of "stim" your describing. Some people "hand flap" maybe that would look like shaking to you or your mom?

Does it only happen when you try to hold an object out at your side? Or does it shake even when you aren't holding something?

If your arm shakes when you hold something it could be due to stabilizer muscles not working properly.

My hands tend to shake when my anxiety goes through the roof.

i shake very much.

My hands shake too, always have done. I don't know if it is AS related or not. My doctor called it a "benign tremor" however, this was long before AS cropped up as the likely cause of a whole raft of other things too, so it may or may not be related. As a teenager I always wanted to be a surgeon, but my biology teacher said I probably wouldn't be suited to that job

At times it has caused me a lot of embarrassment, particularly if I'm holding a cup of coffee or other drink when I'm with strangers or at a job interview. Once at college I'd just got something to eat at the cafeteria and was holding my plate in one hand and a drink in the other. The hand started shaking holding the drink and by the time I'd found a seat the glass was empty and everyone was staring at me.

My left hand is much worse than the right. It trembles all the time to a certain extent. The more stress I'm under the worse it gets.

Another aspect is that the more I consciously try to stop it trembling the worse it gets.

Sometimes my hands shake a little too. Usually when I'm very nervous or even angry my hands will tremble a bit. Sometimes when I stick my hands out I notice they also shake a bit, even when I'm calm. Caffeine will probably do this, so will lots of sugar. Sometimes my hands also shake when I'm cold.

I still don't want people to avoid going in for medical things because they right off every physical trait as being caused by being AS. When I started my thyroid medication, my hand trembling stopped.

Another thing I forgot to mention is that a co-morbid with As is sometimes Dyspraxia(?). I think that can involve having to firm or to lose a grip on things because you are not getting proper neural feedback. I use to constantly drop things when I was kid that I "thought" I was holding firmly and other times I will catch my self holding a pencil in a sort of "death grip" and have to look at my hand to get it to relax. It seems to be weird that someone would have both to firm or to loose but I have read others here having the same issues. Just one possibility.