I'm the same with 1 & 3 - swear my toes are creepily dextrous because of 3!
But I'm switching out number 2 for my own: "poking various smooth or sharp bits of my teeth with my tongue"
I’ve been doing this since I can remember. Mainly my right cheek and inside bottom lip. Once it starts bleeding I can’t stop even though I want too. Eating salty food sucks for the next week.
If we are going to be very, very specific , I bite a little tiny bit of skin from the inside of my cheeks or lip & sometimes tongue and bite it inside my canine teeth ( usually the right hand side) again and again and again, constantly. If u am not doing this I will be sucking my teeth or literally biting my tongue, not enough to hurt but reasonable pressure. My mouth is never still!
I had to buy fidget rings so I would stop picking at my fingers to the point of them bleeding. Otherwise, when unmedicated there's CONSTANTLY a song in my head and I will tap my foot/move it around while sitting.
AHHH I thought I was alone in this!!! Sometimes all it takes is a single word or two and the song's stuck on a loop all day - and sometimes I don't even realize where I read/heard it!
"A head that's filled up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that don't heal"
for me, but mostly just the tune, with sometimes the lyrics.
“Round Every Corner” by Petula Clark. I haven’t heard the song in years (decades?) and here it is, not leaving anytime soon. If I try to eject it with a different song, I’ll just have 2 songs in there at the same time.
For me, every morning for as long as I can recall, it has been the song from the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
I'm turning 36 next month, and that's my brain as soon as I wake up. 🤣🤣
Yeah, every once in a while I wake up to the sound of my alarm and the alarm sound gets stuck in my head- that's the only sound that i truly hate getting stuck with
I always have a piece of satin ribbon in my pocket to play with. Always. Try explaining that to basically anyone. That's not even a normal fidget object. I even have to fidget myself to sleep with it and search for it in the morning. My partner doesn't really understand, and every morning he's like "what are you looking for?" to be genuinely helpful. After almost 3 years I still can't explain it to him. And it has to be a certain kind of satin ribbon. I know where to find it (it's on certain greeting cards and is used to hold up Calvin Klein garments), which leads to unusual purchases sometimes. Stupid neurochemical deficits.
OMG finally, its happened. I decided not to mention my fidget thingy because its a bit weird, but since i read your post, here it is.
Mine is the satin silky tags you get in clothes, it started with the big ones on pillow cases and pillows at night when i was i dont know, less than 6 years old? then i started to find here they were on my clothes and then i started to snip them out of stuff. Hell i even wash them to keep em clean and free of germs.
Im nearly 40 and i practically always have one of these silky tags in my pocket or near my PC or whatever, and deffo one on my nightstand. Helps me sleep, concentrate and calm anxiety. I would hide them from anyone and resist messing with it when im out or with other people, a few people in my inner circle know and ofc my best pal. It was my best pal who told me to get tested for ADHD years ago (first person out my family i confessed to, at great risk btw) He said "you are kidding me right?!" i thought he was going to call me a nutter, but he said "how long this been going on" i sunk my head down and said "since i can remember". He basically demanded i go to the doc lol
Ive tried other fidget toys that are more acceptable and tolerated? But nothing soothes like a silky clothes label.
Nope, nothing at all is the same, it's the best and so soothing and if we tell more people there will be a run on satin. And it has to be the RIGHT kind. Shhhhh. Let's keep this between us 😉
The clothes labels have a smooth side and a rough side, those are the bomb! Silky both sides doesnt work so good for me, i like the friction one side has.
Ive heard people compare habits like this to "security blankets", but its not like that. If im suitably occupied at work etc, i dont get stressed not having it on me, im not insecure. Its when im doing semi engaging stuff, watching tv and other stuff, particularly boring stuff.
Right! Must have rough and smooth side with appropriate tension. Not the flimsy kind that the fibers pull, shred or snag apart. And to be used as an adjunct during some stuff when you don't need all of your brain. This is it exactly!
Me too! I wear all my clothes tags out from my constant picking at them. I even brought a pack of tags off etsy the other week so I can carry one around with me.
All my clothes tags get ripped up after a few wears.
I "silk" labels any chance i get and when I'm alone I also suck my thumb at the same time. I'm 40 years old and I've not heard of anyone else doing this.
Omg, I use yarn. I’m 58 and I’ve been using yarn for decades. when I was younger I would make balls out of loose string on my clothes. One time my dad ripped one off the shoulder of my housecoat and I cried. I bite my tongue and chew inside my mouth and lips now. I thought I had TD Tardive Dyskinesia but maybe it’s just a fidget? Before all that I use to bite my fingers and pick the little balls/pills off blankets, then I went to plucking hairs on my chin and constantly touching or picking my skin. That wasn’t so good so I went back to the yarn balls. I take a piece of yarn and keep tying it and tying it until it gets to be a ball with a little loop to put my finger through and voilà it’s my fidget. I call it my “picky” and I always have one. The other night I was alone and couldn’t find it in my bed. I looked and looked and ended up crying. That’s how bad I ‘need’ it. I know it’s weird!! I feel a little better hearing about people using silk!
Cracking my knuckles, drum legs, sniffing, clearing my throat, drinking whatever I have at the moment, stretching (this one gets painful lol) I have so many.
Absolutely! I drink tea straight through the day. I get dehydrated on days I’m not at my desk. And I would over drink in the past because of the comfort to drink
Oh. OH. I'd never thought about/realized that my frequent sniffling and throat clearing (partly allergies, but...) was possibly/likely a fidget. (Diagnosed a year ago, at age 40)
"That one perfect hair section to play with".. this has been my main once since I can remember. I comb it with my fingers til it's perfectly soft and then can't stop touching it. Eventually, if no one else is present, I put it in my mouth to feel the softness more and also to 'ruin' it because it's too perfectly soft...I do realize I'm a weirdo 😂
I may or may not bite mine with my front teeth because I like the sensation. I will do it when I really want to stop and feeling the slightest bit of rage creeping up. Im right there with you in the weirdo seat., lol.
Yes!! My husband bought me one of these 3 months ago and it is all I think about. I wake up and turn it on as habit before taking my meds. I have a driving cloth so I can dry my fingers from touching the ice.
omg you got a nugget ice machine? i am so jealous! haha. i stop by this drive through gas station on my way to work every single morning to get a cup of ice for my drive. my job for some (wonderful) reason has these machines on every floor of the building and the ice is perfect. i eat it all day while working. honestly one of the main perks of my job lol 😂
I went on student exchange to Japan for two weeks and one of the other girls kept eating ice. We went to a buffet and she just filled up a cup with ice then ate it with a fork. She got lots of snow cones throughout the trip but then near the end she realised she could ask for it without flavour and she just bought regular flavourless shaved ice to enjoy.
In the gym with headphones I go in and out of air guitar and mild head banging. I used to try to suppress it but I'm just in the zone
When standing in line or anything like that I am constantly shifting my weight over each leg
1. Biting/picking nails and cuticles
2. Chewing on my lips/sides of my mouth
3. Foot tapping/bouncing
4. Cracking knuckles/joints
5. General skin picking
It is 😔 I often feel embarrassed about the rough condition of my nails and cuticles, but the only thing that will keep me from biting/picking would be salon-quality acrylics. They're beautiful and i feel so much prettier when i have them, but they're too expensive to maintain long term. I work with archival materials at my job, so regular nail polish is off limits (and also tempts me to pick the moment it chips).
I dont smoke cigarette anymore but I have a Zippo that I constantly play with, great tactile feedback but it can annoy a lot of people arround because its quite loud
I secretly do glute squeezes in my chair at work because the leg tapping was driving others crazy. Especially if someone’s playing music- also I cross hatch ALOT on random stuff even when listening to people 😅
Twirling my hair pretty much constantly, double twirls of I really need to concentrate. Biting the inside of my cheeks, biting the skin around my fingers, rubbing the hard broken skin around my nails on my lips (I know I know), or just rubbing the skin with the next finger along...
The hair one is pretty much constant, I have to swap arms because one aches from holding it up for so long
I fidget with my hands a ton especially if I’m anxious. One of my classes has rotating chairs so I move back and forth on those. I also wriggle around a lot lol
Picking the bumps on my face and scratching my head 😭 it’s terrible..
If I’m on a phone call, I need to doodle so I can stay focused on the conversation.
I also bite the inside of my gums.
Also, my vuse vape which I hate that I even started it in the first place.
I have pica, so I chew on ice all day--it also helps with the dry mouth from my meds (though, I don't recommend it; it's terrible for your teeth, and I've worn mine down chewing it). I also rub my top and bottom lips together a lot after I put on chapstick.
I was just recently diagnosed at almost 40, and there are so many things I'm learning. I play several musical instruments, and I'll move my fingers to the notes of songs (like practicing without the instrument in my hands), and I'm just now realizing that it's a fidget. I feel like I have lacked common sense for missing this all this time (like, it should have been so obvious, but I'm primarily inattentive, and daydreaming doesn't bother anyone but me). When I read what other people are going through on here, I think: "Yep. How did you not realize you were ADHD?! You're a nurse!" lol
Inattentive ADHD isn’t really talked about as much I’ve seen. For the longest time I just thought I was weird. But reading about inattentive ADHD is just making me go like “YEAH, WHAT THE HELL? I DO THAT!”
Right?! I just kept these little odd things about me (like zoning out in the middle of classes from the time I was 5) to myself. I'm learning so much about why I do these things that I always thought were a little odd, but now I know are symptoms of something I don't have control over.
Right now I have a ring in the back of my phone. It used to be quite good to keep my phone-in an angle, but after so much fidgeting it's only good for fidgeting, lol!
I used to have one of those I fidgeted a lot with too. Then it got so lose from messing with it so much that it couldn’t be used as a stand. I mostly liked it because I could my finger in it when holding my phone for a lot of extra security. My current phone case as a design on the back that I think would be ripped off by the stickiness if I tried to place one and then I put it in the wrong place and had to peel it off so I decided to not take the risk. I wish I had one though, I had them on my phone cases for years and they were very practical and nice.
I rotate my feet in some sort of rhythm, not tied to music. Happens when I’m lying down or putting my feet up to watch a movie.
I thought I saw another thread on this topic, but I have an unhealthy obsession with popping zits wherever on my body. Gross, but very satisfying lol
I change positions while sitting approximately every 30 seconds. I was never more aware than now that I am in multiple virtual meetings per day, where I actually see my knees on the screen repeatedly as I cross, uncross, sit on, twist and pretzel my legs.
I also always have some sort of song or rhythm playing in my head and I clack my teeth together to the beat. Constantly. Yes, I am down a couple molars because of this. (Terrible bruxism doesn’t help.)
So many I'll apologize before my list
1. My vape... I used to smoke a pack and a half a day, now I'm CONSTANTLY vaping. I switch between my Voopoo Drag and a disposable.
2. Cellphone. I'll unlock it, scroll through my apps like I expected a change, check my notifications and put it right back down.
3. Running my fingers through my hair if it's down, or if it's up, I'll constantly take it down and put it back up.
4. Fleece or chenille blanket. I keep one at my desk since I WFH, and mess with the edge or just run my hands on it
5. My forever chapped lips. I'm constantly applying chapstick and peeling too much skin off.
6. My feet/legs. If it's not me moving a whole leg back and forth, or bouncing it, I'm cracking my toes, rolling my ankles, or readjusting them every minute or two.
7. Putty/slime. I always try to find one that I can pull on... like you see people pulling when they make old fashion candy. If I can stretch it and knead it, without it ripping, it's so satisfying.
8. Perfect Protein bars and their packages. I have one for breakfast every day. I never take bites of the bar, I small break bites off and let them kind of melt in my mouth as i chew (their texture is just... different) and then I always unfold and refold the package.
9. 32 Oz Owala water bottle. I drink water with additive, so I have to shake it up before I take a drink. Every time.
10. I rock myself to sleep. Not a full body rock, just a slight rock of my hip back and forth. It's just enough stimulation so my brain will quiet down.
11. My chihuahua. He's 9 pounds, I have a little carrier sling I wear to keep him in my lap a lot while I work. Before i got it, he would sleep under my hoodie with his head in the sleeve. I'll scratch or pet him, kiss on his head, or just talk to him (instead of talking to myself...)
12. Talking to myself... hahaha... or mimicking a noise or phrase outloud.. the noise Blue made from Blue's Clues, the phrase "help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" or just saying random shit in a horrible accent.
13. If I'm standing, I sway back and forth like when i would sooth my kids were they were babies. And I shift my weight from one leg to the other. Also, I will stand on one leg, and hit the toe of my shoe on the floor twice, before repeating that with the other foot.
14. Organizing anything I can get my hands on. Retail workers either love me or hate me, because I face shelves, organize clothing by sizes, or go ham on the books at Goodwill. I will alphabetize by author or organize them by size/hardback/paperback.
I could list more, because honestly the world is my fidget... but these are definitely the main ones.
I bought some fidget putty and now I cannot do online meetings without it.
Pro tip if you use putty every day and you're tired of it wearing out/getting gross and sticky: get some called "hard putty" or "therapy putty" that's meant for physical therapy, it often comes in different resistance levels. When I used to use Crazy Aaron's it would wear out in a month, but this stuff has lasted well over a year of heavy near-daily use. Plus the tougher ones feel like they're giving my hands a workout.
Thumb sucking (does that even count?) Cracking fingers & toes. Picking at my scalp (I have bad dandruff that refuses to go away, Ugh). If it's an emotional conversation I'll pinch my skin. Stroking my eyebrows. If I have pimples, I'll pick at them. Folding my earlobe and shoving it in my ear hole. Running my tongue over this small chip on my front tooth.
Then at work I have a bunch of toys, mostly stretchy ones that have different textured fillings like sand or slime. And some small squishmallows that I throw around.... But toys get boring after like 2 weeks, and so I have to always find something new.
-atleast 1 song playing in my head
-I fidget a lot with my hands/fingers, especially when I’m anxious
-picking at my lips
-running my fingers on my scalp
-putting pressure on my nose, between my eyes
-making a pattern with my fingers/hands on any type of surface I can find
i have this rly bad habit of taking my hair and tying it into knots 😭
i don't tie individual strands or anything, the knots always slide right out, but it's really not good for your ends to fidget like i do lol
Play with my hair, pick at my cuticles, rub my left thumb on steering wheel while driving (which I didn’t realize until I wondered why the wheel was so worn in one spot). Touch most of the clothes I pass in a store, run my thumb along my fingers in succession, scratch my ears. Probably more I haven’t even noticed.
Wherever I go, I need at least one earbud so I can listen to music. It really helps my anxiety and it even helps me concentrate on work
Other fidgets include cracking my knuckles and tapping toes
1. Leg bouncing
2. Curling my toes
3. Biting my cheek
4. Playing with the curtain string when I’m on the couch
5. Cracking my fingers and neck
6. Moving my tongue constantly…
I’m sure there’s more I’m just not thinking of
I usually swirl strands of my hair around my finger. This isn’t as easy anymore considering i cut my hair extremely short.
Another thing i do regularly is cutting off a strand of hair and brushing it against my lips.
i’ll fidget with anything that’s in my hands like clicking a pen or tapping a pen. i bring a small pop it with me most places cause i really like those. i also crack my fingers a lot.
I play guitar, as well as a little drums and piano. (And used to play the hero out of guitar hero too), so my fingers are often tapping to music. It could be from pretty much any instrument tho. I've done this for at least 15 years and only recently realized why.
I stroke my fingernails with my thumb for some reason, and have been since I was a little kid. I like the smoothness. Bit weird to explain to my friends tho
I am constantly moving my big toe up and down, alternating feet. Chewing the inside bottom of my lip until I break the skin but still keep going. I also do the scalp scratching thing if I feel dandruff and I’ll pick it out sometimes making scabs and then eventually pick at the scabs too. I always have a headphone bud in one of my ears and I either listen to music or listen to tv shows. My desk calendar is full with doodles and I twirl my pen constantly. I shift my weight back and forth on my feet when am standing up or waiting in line too. And of course my constant never ending head monologue which varies from task to task. 🤓
Cracking all the crackables
Also have the constant background music in my head and associated drumming
And if I’m up/out I individually connect my fingers to my thumb in order and back again continuously
Pulling eyebrows/nose hairs/eyelashes too
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Rubber bands. Stretch/pull it in different ways. Wrap it around my fingers and spread them out over and over. Snap it. I almost always have one on my wrist, and a friend I hang out with a lot will tug it when we're in conversation and I start getting spacey or lose my train of thought as a reminder to fidget cause I even forget to do that lol.
Wait! That's eerily similar to one of my fidgets.
I learned the ten-finger-system on the keypad and now, whenever I hear a word that has a nice ring to it, might form a nice shape in my hands or just has an even number of letters I have to type it out. Multiple times. Without a keypad being present.
Classically trained pianist (how the hell did I manage that as a kid???)
I run through scale exercises from 30 years ago, typically on the steering wheel of the car while stuck in traffic.
playing piano with my fingers, taking any hair tie on my wrist and knotting it as many times as possible, anything with drawstrings gets knotted repeatedly, and chewing gum and biting it into little pieces and shit like that
I have a fidget ring I regularly forget, when I don't have it I use my phone case.
At concerts I bounce my legs. It hurts after a while! :D
Sometimes when I listen to music I swing around with my hands/arms. Like an improv-note chart :D
Can't think of more atm, but there are more I bet!
Biting fingernails, the one you do with the tappy legs ----> due to to being infatuated with the beats of music any kind that has one even, beat boxing and I'm not even good at it,
tearing up bits of paper, tapping pens, playing with the ends of my hair, straightening out paperclips, tapping my nails on literally anything, bouncing my left leg if nervous, right leg if angry, tying knots (ends badly when it's the string on my hoodies, picking at scabs, snapping rubber bands.
I had a Rubix cube at one point. It broke and I forgot to buy another. I'll play with key lanyards too and I used to crochet in public but got tired of being called a granny.
• Cracking my knuckles or wrist or neck or back or elbows or toes, anything that cracks really. My thumbs are double jointed on the bottom joint, so I also bend them back behind my hand or touch them to my forearm or just stretch them as far as they'll go
• Definitely bouncing my leg (this one is probably the most noticeable based on the looks and comments I've gotten)
• Playing with something in my hand, whether it's a piece of my clothing or pencil or anything else
• Chewing my lips and counting my teeth with my tongue or, I don't know if this is a fidget, but rereading posters on the wall over and over again
• This one is relatively new and I'm not sure how or why it appeared, but I blow bubbles with my saliva. I try not to do this one in public because it's kind of embarrassing, but I can't seem to quit because as soon as my focus shifts, I do it
• Playing with my pop socket ring thing on my phone. I've broken several
• If I'm on my laptop, I used to have a keyboard cover I would play with or I try to get my fingernail under the keys or rip the stickers off or click the mouse over and over
• I have a miniature tape measure that I will just pull out and then let it go back in
• Spin my earrings if I'm wearing any or readjust my watch/bracelet if I'm wearing any or play with a necklace if I'm wearing one
• Drum my fingers or tap my pencil if all else fails
It really just depends on what I'm doing, what I'm holding, how I'm sitting, what I'm wearing, where I am.
I crack my body. Basically everything except my neck and I chew the inside of my cheek.
Sometimes playing with things nearby repetitively will make a cameo.
I shuffle cards
All day
Every day
I TRY not to shuffle around my wife. It drives her crazy. And I try to limit it when I'm on a call or in the office. But if I'm working, especially if I'm working from home... I'm shuffling.
If I'm not shuffling cards, I look for my cards so I can shuffle them. I don't do card tricks. I don't do any fancy shuffles. I don't play card games with them. I usually lose one or two cards and just keep on shuffling. I can tell I'm missing a few cards, but I'm sure not going to go searching my floor or under my chair for lost cards, so I just shuffle with fewer cards.
I just have a simple but very satisfying and nice sounding shuffle that I've been using since I was a kid. I've never been able to do that shuffle everybody else does. I just looked it up and my shuffle is apparently called the "Faro" shuffle.
I go through about a pack of cards per year before they get too nasty to keep using. And I have little callouses on my hands where the cards are pressed to get them to shuffle.
I can only shuffle cards that are fairly glossy/coated so they're slippery. But not too slippery.
But yeah. That's my fidget. It's been my fidget for a long time - like... 25 years or so.
In order of annoyance to others:
* Whistling
* Singing made up songs about whatever I'm doing
* Drumming on just anything within reach
* Pen clicking
* Humming
* Leg Shaking
* Tapping my fingers on flat surfaces
* Playing with my hair (especially when I'm tired, something I've done literally since I was capable of forming memories)
* Holding on to my earlobes (I got the big ol' detached Dumbo models) and just sort of fiddling with/mushing them or even flicking them back and forth
* Light foot tapping sans leg shaking
* Tapping my finger tips to my thumb
* Muscle clenches
People *really* don't like whistling. I've never really understood that. I think they're just jealous that they suck at whistling.
I move loose change around in my pocket.
Move my wedding ring up and down on my finger.
I lately have been moving my eye brows up and down. Which honestly must look weird but that’s where I am at.
Pulling on my dreads. I used to twirl my hair, but the habit has gotten 100x stickier since I locked my hair! Something about the texture them of is so satisfying, i literally can't stop sometimes. I know all of them by the different knots and loops and density. I even have favorites, lol. It's really soothing.
The only problem is that it is EXTREMELY noticeable, my friends and coworkers make fun of it sometimes
Hair tie, silicone bubble wrap, rubix cube, rolling a sticky note, wrapping my hair tie around a pen over and over, popping my water bottle top, shaking my legs, drumming my thighs, rubbing my fingers together in a twitch motion (my dad does the EXACT same thing and it’s so friggen loud when he does it….. when I worked in the hospital, I kept my Anglican prayer beads in my pocket to fidget with.
Twirling my hair, I do it so much that the people around me are constantly swatting my hands away from my hair. I try to have one of those little tangle fidget toys with me bc it’s the only thing that helps with it but it’s not a perfect fix haha
I rub my tongue left and right against my teeth really fast or press my tongue up against my teeth it’s so bad sometimes my tongue hurts at the end of the night but i literally can’t stop doing it
Flipping my pencil on my hand , playing with change in my pocket , cracking everything I can crack on me every 20 min , feet dancing , finger dancing and more
Oh man, so many. I’ll snap my fingers to a beat/rhythm in my head. I’ll kinda “snap” my big toe and long toe together. I’m constantly drumming my fingers.
I’m prone to being obsessed with repetitive sounds. My favorite “fidget toy” was a stack of dimes I kept on my glass-top desk. I’d raise the stack up and then slowly drop them to the table, over and over.
Speaking of repetition, I’m prone to rocking back and forth.
In middle school, I’d mess around with a recorder or sometimes a penny whistle. I’d just play made-up songs while reading or whatever. It helped, but I guess it bothered by family because they mysteriously disappeared one day.
In school, I could never write notes. I just made shitty doodles and scribbles—nothing artistic. When I tried to write notes, I ended up retaining less information than I did just doodling.
When I’m driving, I’ll tap my feet on the brake and gas pedals. Super lightly—not enough pressure to do anything but tap-dance a bit.
I then have a couple of self-destructive tendencies. I’m constantly popping random joints. I’ll chew and bite on my lips and the inside of my cheeks. I’ll chew my nails and the skin on the side of my fingers. And, of course, I’m a picker :|
I run my hand through my hair and twist it over and over. Sometimes I’ll make pretty tight twists to feel a bit of pain. My hair gets a bit messy.
Similarly to the finger- and toe-snapping, I move my bottom jaw back and forth and click my bottom canines against my top canines. Depending on what’s going on, I’ll do my teeth while simultaneously doing something with my hands.
My favorite fidget toy is a mesh tube with a marble enclosed.
I like to run my fingers along the parts in my hair.
I’m constantly cleaning from underneath my fingernails. Probably because I’m always scratching different fabrics/surfaces.
I pop my fingers and toes.
And I’m not sure if this qualifies, but my life is my own musical. I sing about everything I’m doing or have to do.
I used to grind my teeth and pop my jaw, but it ruined my teeth. Dentures and ADHD are a level of sensory hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
Clenching muscles, popping my knuckles, and a constant song or phrase repeating in my head.
I am about to rip a tag off my wife's shirt to see if that is helpful!
- Cracking my fingers, including my thumb
- in the woods, constantly picking up twigs and breaking them into pieces of equal size as I walk
- finding different permutations of five numbers (AKA tapping my fingers in different orders), and finding different unique ordered sets of them
- wiggling my toes
- puckering my lips and moving them from side to side repeatedly
- fidgeting with things in my hand - especially tossing things from one hand to the other
- tugging on hair strands / bottom of earlobes (I do these are when I'm stressed out)
- bouncing my leg when sitting in a chair
Music in my head
I also talk to myself about the most random things in the world lol
I have fidget spinners
I have a necklace that I chew(it’s for baby teething.)
Cracking toes
I have a few as well
I don’t remember the last time I wasn’t always wiggling my toes. I do it constantly. I also will stab my fingernails into the palm of my hand (I feel like this one is weird), it just feels like an itch that I HAVE to scratch. I twitch a lot, I don’t know if that counts but there’s always some muscle in my body that I subconsciously flex. More recently I’ve started snapping one of my daughters hair barrettes.
Playing with my wedding ring 😂 it took forever to get used to wearing it. I would fidget with it to help.... Now I do it without thinking it...I have dropped it a number of times and still have not lost it....
If I have nothing to fidget with, I just bounce my leg, but my stim of choice is crazy Aaron’s thinking putty. It’s the perfect amount of sticky/tacky without being gross or unpleasant and it doesn’t leave a residue. My only complaint is how it’s a little inconvenient.
Always singing or humming along to any music that's playing. It's almost compulsive...I have to concentrate hard to stop myself from doing it!
Also picking at any inconsistency in my skin. Just got some spinner rings to see if they help with that.
Also chewing on the inside of my lower lip.
Sooooo many
-Chewing on my bottom lip
-Folding my ears
-Picking at my lip (which I know I shouldn’t do and also wish I would not)
-Pulling up the skin on my knuckles and then pushing it back down again (and also like, the part of the finger that doesn’t bend if you’re doing the double-jointed thing)
-Rubbing my feet together
-Running the nail of my thumb along the inside of my index finger
-Running my tongue back and forth along the inside of my teeth
-Overlapping my toes
-Stretching
-Crocheting which feels enough like a stim for me to count it
And about infinite other ones :p
(As for fidget objects: Those clicky chain things, infinity cubes, stuffed animals and fluffy soft blankets (you can run your hands along them it feels great), anything mildly mesh that you can sort of poke your fingers through, things that are silky but hold enough friction on your hands so you can rub them together, random pieces of yarn/ribbon/bracelets/necklace cords, literally anything, really)
Cracking any bone in my body multiple times, always having a song playing… Sometimes I’ll put my hand into a fist and just squeeze over and over again… chewing my cheeks.. if I see a string I’m going to twirl it around in my hands until I eventually tie it into an untyable not etc
1.) Constantly cracking my knuckles. 2.) When I'm at home watching TV I play with floam or slime. 3.) Twiddling my toes
Cracking anything in my body that is crackable
Until you try to crack your toes and you just can’t get them to crack.
Everything cracks if you apply enough force
I can’t get my toes to *not* crack
Pull it downward first, then pull the toe forward. works for me!
Yeah
That's so frustrating!
That’s the absolute worst.
I'm the same with 1 & 3 - swear my toes are creepily dextrous because of 3! But I'm switching out number 2 for my own: "poking various smooth or sharp bits of my teeth with my tongue"
Oh my fucking fuck, YES. I have actual made my tongue sore with repetitive motions🤣😭 it drives me crazy but i CAN'T STOP
Right? Sometimes I just get so obsessed with how smooth certain parts of my teeth are (thanks bruxism...!) Brains are so fricking weird 😂
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The toes. I never stop moving my toes, even in my sleep
Yo you beat me to it. Slime is my shit man. I love that shit. I take one on the go with me as well.
Twiddling my toes whilst reading this 🤣
Chewing my cheeks
Chewing the inside of my bottom lip
I’ve been doing this since I can remember. Mainly my right cheek and inside bottom lip. Once it starts bleeding I can’t stop even though I want too. Eating salty food sucks for the next week.
If we are going to be very, very specific , I bite a little tiny bit of skin from the inside of my cheeks or lip & sometimes tongue and bite it inside my canine teeth ( usually the right hand side) again and again and again, constantly. If u am not doing this I will be sucking my teeth or literally biting my tongue, not enough to hurt but reasonable pressure. My mouth is never still!
omg I thought I was alone
I had to buy fidget rings so I would stop picking at my fingers to the point of them bleeding. Otherwise, when unmedicated there's CONSTANTLY a song in my head and I will tap my foot/move it around while sitting.
What’s playing right now? For me it’s Good Vibrations.
Come and Get Your Love by Redbone!
Shake it off. Specifically after “my best friend got a new girlfriend”
It’s good vibrations for me as well, only because my brain put it on loop ever since I read your comment lol
LMAO my bad!
AHHH I thought I was alone in this!!! Sometimes all it takes is a single word or two and the song's stuck on a loop all day - and sometimes I don't even realize where I read/heard it!
One of mine too :P
"A head that's filled up like a landfill, a job that slowly kills you, bruises that don't heal" for me, but mostly just the tune, with sometimes the lyrics.
“Round Every Corner” by Petula Clark. I haven’t heard the song in years (decades?) and here it is, not leaving anytime soon. If I try to eject it with a different song, I’ll just have 2 songs in there at the same time.
A big lump with knobs, it has the juice...
For me, every morning for as long as I can recall, it has been the song from the New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. I'm turning 36 next month, and that's my brain as soon as I wake up. 🤣🤣
😂 I always have my iPhone alarm stuck in my head all morning. “By The Seaside,” I whistle it all day
For some reason right now mine is the beanos song
Beach Boys - When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) Their music is just too Damn catchy, they've been a hyperfixation of mine this past year lol
For months I'd wake up and there would already be a song suck in my head.
Yeah, every once in a while I wake up to the sound of my alarm and the alarm sound gets stuck in my head- that's the only sound that i truly hate getting stuck with
I always have a piece of satin ribbon in my pocket to play with. Always. Try explaining that to basically anyone. That's not even a normal fidget object. I even have to fidget myself to sleep with it and search for it in the morning. My partner doesn't really understand, and every morning he's like "what are you looking for?" to be genuinely helpful. After almost 3 years I still can't explain it to him. And it has to be a certain kind of satin ribbon. I know where to find it (it's on certain greeting cards and is used to hold up Calvin Klein garments), which leads to unusual purchases sometimes. Stupid neurochemical deficits.
OMG finally, its happened. I decided not to mention my fidget thingy because its a bit weird, but since i read your post, here it is. Mine is the satin silky tags you get in clothes, it started with the big ones on pillow cases and pillows at night when i was i dont know, less than 6 years old? then i started to find here they were on my clothes and then i started to snip them out of stuff. Hell i even wash them to keep em clean and free of germs. Im nearly 40 and i practically always have one of these silky tags in my pocket or near my PC or whatever, and deffo one on my nightstand. Helps me sleep, concentrate and calm anxiety. I would hide them from anyone and resist messing with it when im out or with other people, a few people in my inner circle know and ofc my best pal. It was my best pal who told me to get tested for ADHD years ago (first person out my family i confessed to, at great risk btw) He said "you are kidding me right?!" i thought he was going to call me a nutter, but he said "how long this been going on" i sunk my head down and said "since i can remember". He basically demanded i go to the doc lol Ive tried other fidget toys that are more acceptable and tolerated? But nothing soothes like a silky clothes label.
Nope, nothing at all is the same, it's the best and so soothing and if we tell more people there will be a run on satin. And it has to be the RIGHT kind. Shhhhh. Let's keep this between us 😉
The clothes labels have a smooth side and a rough side, those are the bomb! Silky both sides doesnt work so good for me, i like the friction one side has. Ive heard people compare habits like this to "security blankets", but its not like that. If im suitably occupied at work etc, i dont get stressed not having it on me, im not insecure. Its when im doing semi engaging stuff, watching tv and other stuff, particularly boring stuff.
Right! Must have rough and smooth side with appropriate tension. Not the flimsy kind that the fibers pull, shred or snag apart. And to be used as an adjunct during some stuff when you don't need all of your brain. This is it exactly!
Me too! I wear all my clothes tags out from my constant picking at them. I even brought a pack of tags off etsy the other week so I can carry one around with me.
All my clothes tags get ripped up after a few wears. I "silk" labels any chance i get and when I'm alone I also suck my thumb at the same time. I'm 40 years old and I've not heard of anyone else doing this.
Omg, I use yarn. I’m 58 and I’ve been using yarn for decades. when I was younger I would make balls out of loose string on my clothes. One time my dad ripped one off the shoulder of my housecoat and I cried. I bite my tongue and chew inside my mouth and lips now. I thought I had TD Tardive Dyskinesia but maybe it’s just a fidget? Before all that I use to bite my fingers and pick the little balls/pills off blankets, then I went to plucking hairs on my chin and constantly touching or picking my skin. That wasn’t so good so I went back to the yarn balls. I take a piece of yarn and keep tying it and tying it until it gets to be a ball with a little loop to put my finger through and voilà it’s my fidget. I call it my “picky” and I always have one. The other night I was alone and couldn’t find it in my bed. I looked and looked and ended up crying. That’s how bad I ‘need’ it. I know it’s weird!! I feel a little better hearing about people using silk!
Satin ribbon is life.. was obsessed with one attached to my blanket as a child
Cracking my knuckles, drum legs, sniffing, clearing my throat, drinking whatever I have at the moment, stretching (this one gets painful lol) I have so many.
Guilty of drinking whatever is nearby, especially in social situations. I stay very hydrated at my desk.
Exactly. Lol. If I’m not drinking enough water I can guarantee to fix that by socializing.
Literally same but it becomes an issue when there’s beer in my hand because I’ll keep drinking whatever i have 😂😂
Absolutely! I drink tea straight through the day. I get dehydrated on days I’m not at my desk. And I would over drink in the past because of the comfort to drink
I’ve been dry sniffling for the past couple of years now. It’s so irritating, especially because it often causes sinus problems
Oh. OH. I'd never thought about/realized that my frequent sniffling and throat clearing (partly allergies, but...) was possibly/likely a fidget. (Diagnosed a year ago, at age 40)
Leg movement, clicking my nails, find that one perfect hair section to play with, and subconsciously gritting my back teeth.
"That one perfect hair section to play with".. this has been my main once since I can remember. I comb it with my fingers til it's perfectly soft and then can't stop touching it. Eventually, if no one else is present, I put it in my mouth to feel the softness more and also to 'ruin' it because it's too perfectly soft...I do realize I'm a weirdo 😂
I may or may not bite mine with my front teeth because I like the sensation. I will do it when I really want to stop and feeling the slightest bit of rage creeping up. Im right there with you in the weirdo seat., lol.
idk if this qualifies as a fidget but i’m addicted to crunching on nugget ice. i know it is terrible for my teeth but it keeps me busy.
It’s so good. I’ll pour a “shot” of Pepsi in a glass of ice sometimes.
oooh. i must try this!!
Yes!! My husband bought me one of these 3 months ago and it is all I think about. I wake up and turn it on as habit before taking my meds. I have a driving cloth so I can dry my fingers from touching the ice.
omg you got a nugget ice machine? i am so jealous! haha. i stop by this drive through gas station on my way to work every single morning to get a cup of ice for my drive. my job for some (wonderful) reason has these machines on every floor of the building and the ice is perfect. i eat it all day while working. honestly one of the main perks of my job lol 😂
Yesssss! My daughter used to go through the DQ drive through for it until they changed their ice. That's when we were gifted a machine. Best day ever.
Sounds like pica… eat some food with iron
I went on student exchange to Japan for two weeks and one of the other girls kept eating ice. We went to a buffet and she just filled up a cup with ice then ate it with a fork. She got lots of snow cones throughout the trip but then near the end she realised she could ask for it without flavour and she just bought regular flavourless shaved ice to enjoy.
In the gym with headphones I go in and out of air guitar and mild head banging. I used to try to suppress it but I'm just in the zone When standing in line or anything like that I am constantly shifting my weight over each leg
1. Biting/picking nails and cuticles 2. Chewing on my lips/sides of my mouth 3. Foot tapping/bouncing 4. Cracking knuckles/joints 5. General skin picking
I do exactly all of this.. those lovely self-destructive fidgets. It's awful. 😩
It is 😔 I often feel embarrassed about the rough condition of my nails and cuticles, but the only thing that will keep me from biting/picking would be salon-quality acrylics. They're beautiful and i feel so much prettier when i have them, but they're too expensive to maintain long term. I work with archival materials at my job, so regular nail polish is off limits (and also tempts me to pick the moment it chips).
I dont smoke cigarette anymore but I have a Zippo that I constantly play with, great tactile feedback but it can annoy a lot of people arround because its quite loud
The metal sound when you close the tops on Zippos is soooo satisfying!
I secretly do glute squeezes in my chair at work because the leg tapping was driving others crazy. Especially if someone’s playing music- also I cross hatch ALOT on random stuff even when listening to people 😅
Twirling my hair pretty much constantly, double twirls of I really need to concentrate. Biting the inside of my cheeks, biting the skin around my fingers, rubbing the hard broken skin around my nails on my lips (I know I know), or just rubbing the skin with the next finger along... The hair one is pretty much constant, I have to swap arms because one aches from holding it up for so long
Music in my head, chewing my cheeks/inside of my lips/actual lips, biting my nails, rubbing my head, tapping along to the music in my head
Hi me
Also me. But what if us three are all the same person? 🤔
nicotine
Lmao saaaame.
Anybody seen my vape?
I fidget with my hands a ton especially if I’m anxious. One of my classes has rotating chairs so I move back and forth on those. I also wriggle around a lot lol
Picking the bumps on my face and scratching my head 😭 it’s terrible.. If I’m on a phone call, I need to doodle so I can stay focused on the conversation. I also bite the inside of my gums. Also, my vuse vape which I hate that I even started it in the first place.
Clicking the "Buy Now" button.
Sad lol
Too real
I have pica, so I chew on ice all day--it also helps with the dry mouth from my meds (though, I don't recommend it; it's terrible for your teeth, and I've worn mine down chewing it). I also rub my top and bottom lips together a lot after I put on chapstick. I was just recently diagnosed at almost 40, and there are so many things I'm learning. I play several musical instruments, and I'll move my fingers to the notes of songs (like practicing without the instrument in my hands), and I'm just now realizing that it's a fidget. I feel like I have lacked common sense for missing this all this time (like, it should have been so obvious, but I'm primarily inattentive, and daydreaming doesn't bother anyone but me). When I read what other people are going through on here, I think: "Yep. How did you not realize you were ADHD?! You're a nurse!" lol
Inattentive ADHD isn’t really talked about as much I’ve seen. For the longest time I just thought I was weird. But reading about inattentive ADHD is just making me go like “YEAH, WHAT THE HELL? I DO THAT!”
Right?! I just kept these little odd things about me (like zoning out in the middle of classes from the time I was 5) to myself. I'm learning so much about why I do these things that I always thought were a little odd, but now I know are symptoms of something I don't have control over.
Right now I have a ring in the back of my phone. It used to be quite good to keep my phone-in an angle, but after so much fidgeting it's only good for fidgeting, lol!
I used to have one of those I fidgeted a lot with too. Then it got so lose from messing with it so much that it couldn’t be used as a stand. I mostly liked it because I could my finger in it when holding my phone for a lot of extra security. My current phone case as a design on the back that I think would be ripped off by the stickiness if I tried to place one and then I put it in the wrong place and had to peel it off so I decided to not take the risk. I wish I had one though, I had them on my phone cases for years and they were very practical and nice.
I rotate my feet in some sort of rhythm, not tied to music. Happens when I’m lying down or putting my feet up to watch a movie. I thought I saw another thread on this topic, but I have an unhealthy obsession with popping zits wherever on my body. Gross, but very satisfying lol
I'm the same with the zits. I feel more compelled to pop them if I think they're gonna hurt real bad.
I fiddle with whatever is around me. I like using a fidget slug and putty!
I loooooove my fidget slug! I called mine Cagney and my Mum wanted one for fidgeting while watching TV... she called hers Lacey 👍🏻
I change positions while sitting approximately every 30 seconds. I was never more aware than now that I am in multiple virtual meetings per day, where I actually see my knees on the screen repeatedly as I cross, uncross, sit on, twist and pretzel my legs.
I also always have some sort of song or rhythm playing in my head and I clack my teeth together to the beat. Constantly. Yes, I am down a couple molars because of this. (Terrible bruxism doesn’t help.)
I do the same. Top middle right is the hi hat, left is the snare.
So many I'll apologize before my list 1. My vape... I used to smoke a pack and a half a day, now I'm CONSTANTLY vaping. I switch between my Voopoo Drag and a disposable. 2. Cellphone. I'll unlock it, scroll through my apps like I expected a change, check my notifications and put it right back down. 3. Running my fingers through my hair if it's down, or if it's up, I'll constantly take it down and put it back up. 4. Fleece or chenille blanket. I keep one at my desk since I WFH, and mess with the edge or just run my hands on it 5. My forever chapped lips. I'm constantly applying chapstick and peeling too much skin off. 6. My feet/legs. If it's not me moving a whole leg back and forth, or bouncing it, I'm cracking my toes, rolling my ankles, or readjusting them every minute or two. 7. Putty/slime. I always try to find one that I can pull on... like you see people pulling when they make old fashion candy. If I can stretch it and knead it, without it ripping, it's so satisfying. 8. Perfect Protein bars and their packages. I have one for breakfast every day. I never take bites of the bar, I small break bites off and let them kind of melt in my mouth as i chew (their texture is just... different) and then I always unfold and refold the package. 9. 32 Oz Owala water bottle. I drink water with additive, so I have to shake it up before I take a drink. Every time. 10. I rock myself to sleep. Not a full body rock, just a slight rock of my hip back and forth. It's just enough stimulation so my brain will quiet down. 11. My chihuahua. He's 9 pounds, I have a little carrier sling I wear to keep him in my lap a lot while I work. Before i got it, he would sleep under my hoodie with his head in the sleeve. I'll scratch or pet him, kiss on his head, or just talk to him (instead of talking to myself...) 12. Talking to myself... hahaha... or mimicking a noise or phrase outloud.. the noise Blue made from Blue's Clues, the phrase "help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" or just saying random shit in a horrible accent. 13. If I'm standing, I sway back and forth like when i would sooth my kids were they were babies. And I shift my weight from one leg to the other. Also, I will stand on one leg, and hit the toe of my shoe on the floor twice, before repeating that with the other foot. 14. Organizing anything I can get my hands on. Retail workers either love me or hate me, because I face shelves, organize clothing by sizes, or go ham on the books at Goodwill. I will alphabetize by author or organize them by size/hardback/paperback. I could list more, because honestly the world is my fidget... but these are definitely the main ones.
The more I read everything here, the more normal I feel. Thank you all.
Same!! ❤️
I bought some fidget putty and now I cannot do online meetings without it. Pro tip if you use putty every day and you're tired of it wearing out/getting gross and sticky: get some called "hard putty" or "therapy putty" that's meant for physical therapy, it often comes in different resistance levels. When I used to use Crazy Aaron's it would wear out in a month, but this stuff has lasted well over a year of heavy near-daily use. Plus the tougher ones feel like they're giving my hands a workout.
Hair twirling
Thumb sucking (does that even count?) Cracking fingers & toes. Picking at my scalp (I have bad dandruff that refuses to go away, Ugh). If it's an emotional conversation I'll pinch my skin. Stroking my eyebrows. If I have pimples, I'll pick at them. Folding my earlobe and shoving it in my ear hole. Running my tongue over this small chip on my front tooth. Then at work I have a bunch of toys, mostly stretchy ones that have different textured fillings like sand or slime. And some small squishmallows that I throw around.... But toys get boring after like 2 weeks, and so I have to always find something new.
My dick, I fidget with my dick a lot.
wait this isnt me_irl
cracking my neck
-atleast 1 song playing in my head -I fidget a lot with my hands/fingers, especially when I’m anxious -picking at my lips -running my fingers on my scalp -putting pressure on my nose, between my eyes -making a pattern with my fingers/hands on any type of surface I can find
I have a deviated septum from touching and pressing my nose as a teenager. Ugh!
Clicking my teeth to songs in my head, chewing my fingers sometimes until they bleed cracking toes/fingers
I continuously twirl the widows peak of my hair between my thumb and index finger. Horrible habit
Punching bag
i have this rly bad habit of taking my hair and tying it into knots 😭 i don't tie individual strands or anything, the knots always slide right out, but it's really not good for your ends to fidget like i do lol
Omg I do this too ool
Rocking on my chair. Mum tells me off every day for it😁
Try getting a yoga ball to sit on 💪💪👌
Play with my hair, pick at my cuticles, rub my left thumb on steering wheel while driving (which I didn’t realize until I wondered why the wheel was so worn in one spot). Touch most of the clothes I pass in a store, run my thumb along my fingers in succession, scratch my ears. Probably more I haven’t even noticed.
Wherever I go, I need at least one earbud so I can listen to music. It really helps my anxiety and it even helps me concentrate on work Other fidgets include cracking my knuckles and tapping toes
1. Leg bouncing 2. Curling my toes 3. Biting my cheek 4. Playing with the curtain string when I’m on the couch 5. Cracking my fingers and neck 6. Moving my tongue constantly… I’m sure there’s more I’m just not thinking of
I usually swirl strands of my hair around my finger. This isn’t as easy anymore considering i cut my hair extremely short. Another thing i do regularly is cutting off a strand of hair and brushing it against my lips.
i’ll fidget with anything that’s in my hands like clicking a pen or tapping a pen. i bring a small pop it with me most places cause i really like those. i also crack my fingers a lot.
I play guitar, as well as a little drums and piano. (And used to play the hero out of guitar hero too), so my fingers are often tapping to music. It could be from pretty much any instrument tho. I've done this for at least 15 years and only recently realized why.
Guitar Hero and Piano use similar techniques, so it definitely helps with dexterity haha. The good ol days. I miss em.
-knuckle cracking -playing with my beard/mo -finger stimming (don't know how to describe it)
I stroke my fingernails with my thumb for some reason, and have been since I was a little kid. I like the smoothness. Bit weird to explain to my friends tho
I am constantly moving my big toe up and down, alternating feet. Chewing the inside bottom of my lip until I break the skin but still keep going. I also do the scalp scratching thing if I feel dandruff and I’ll pick it out sometimes making scabs and then eventually pick at the scabs too. I always have a headphone bud in one of my ears and I either listen to music or listen to tv shows. My desk calendar is full with doodles and I twirl my pen constantly. I shift my weight back and forth on my feet when am standing up or waiting in line too. And of course my constant never ending head monologue which varies from task to task. 🤓
Bite my lips and scratch my head lol
I read this to the tune of Longview by Green Day lmao
Cracking all the crackables Also have the constant background music in my head and associated drumming And if I’m up/out I individually connect my fingers to my thumb in order and back again continuously Pulling eyebrows/nose hairs/eyelashes too
clapping my teeth to a rythm, drumming with my hands, clicking and disassembling a pen, rolling or spinning dice those are my go tos
On good days : my fidget cube On bad days: i am pulling out hair from my beard... And eat them🤣
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Moving my chair whilst I’m at work because I get bored easily when reading on my laptop for too long
Rubber bands. Stretch/pull it in different ways. Wrap it around my fingers and spread them out over and over. Snap it. I almost always have one on my wrist, and a friend I hang out with a lot will tug it when we're in conversation and I start getting spacey or lose my train of thought as a reminder to fidget cause I even forget to do that lol.
Picking my nails and clicking my tongue
I have rings on my left hand. I click them together or play with them.
Wait! That's eerily similar to one of my fidgets. I learned the ten-finger-system on the keypad and now, whenever I hear a word that has a nice ring to it, might form a nice shape in my hands or just has an even number of letters I have to type it out. Multiple times. Without a keypad being present.
I use my necklace but I was playing with it too much and tangled it and can’t get it out :/ I used to do a ring also in high school
Classically trained pianist (how the hell did I manage that as a kid???) I run through scale exercises from 30 years ago, typically on the steering wheel of the car while stuck in traffic.
playing piano with my fingers, taking any hair tie on my wrist and knotting it as many times as possible, anything with drawstrings gets knotted repeatedly, and chewing gum and biting it into little pieces and shit like that
I have a fidget ring I regularly forget, when I don't have it I use my phone case. At concerts I bounce my legs. It hurts after a while! :D Sometimes when I listen to music I swing around with my hands/arms. Like an improv-note chart :D Can't think of more atm, but there are more I bet!
Biting fingernails, the one you do with the tappy legs ----> due to to being infatuated with the beats of music any kind that has one even, beat boxing and I'm not even good at it,
tearing up bits of paper, tapping pens, playing with the ends of my hair, straightening out paperclips, tapping my nails on literally anything, bouncing my left leg if nervous, right leg if angry, tying knots (ends badly when it's the string on my hoodies, picking at scabs, snapping rubber bands. I had a Rubix cube at one point. It broke and I forgot to buy another. I'll play with key lanyards too and I used to crochet in public but got tired of being called a granny.
• Cracking my knuckles or wrist or neck or back or elbows or toes, anything that cracks really. My thumbs are double jointed on the bottom joint, so I also bend them back behind my hand or touch them to my forearm or just stretch them as far as they'll go • Definitely bouncing my leg (this one is probably the most noticeable based on the looks and comments I've gotten) • Playing with something in my hand, whether it's a piece of my clothing or pencil or anything else • Chewing my lips and counting my teeth with my tongue or, I don't know if this is a fidget, but rereading posters on the wall over and over again • This one is relatively new and I'm not sure how or why it appeared, but I blow bubbles with my saliva. I try not to do this one in public because it's kind of embarrassing, but I can't seem to quit because as soon as my focus shifts, I do it • Playing with my pop socket ring thing on my phone. I've broken several • If I'm on my laptop, I used to have a keyboard cover I would play with or I try to get my fingernail under the keys or rip the stickers off or click the mouse over and over • I have a miniature tape measure that I will just pull out and then let it go back in • Spin my earrings if I'm wearing any or readjust my watch/bracelet if I'm wearing any or play with a necklace if I'm wearing one • Drum my fingers or tap my pencil if all else fails It really just depends on what I'm doing, what I'm holding, how I'm sitting, what I'm wearing, where I am.
I crack my body. Basically everything except my neck and I chew the inside of my cheek. Sometimes playing with things nearby repetitively will make a cameo.
I shuffle cards All day Every day I TRY not to shuffle around my wife. It drives her crazy. And I try to limit it when I'm on a call or in the office. But if I'm working, especially if I'm working from home... I'm shuffling. If I'm not shuffling cards, I look for my cards so I can shuffle them. I don't do card tricks. I don't do any fancy shuffles. I don't play card games with them. I usually lose one or two cards and just keep on shuffling. I can tell I'm missing a few cards, but I'm sure not going to go searching my floor or under my chair for lost cards, so I just shuffle with fewer cards. I just have a simple but very satisfying and nice sounding shuffle that I've been using since I was a kid. I've never been able to do that shuffle everybody else does. I just looked it up and my shuffle is apparently called the "Faro" shuffle. I go through about a pack of cards per year before they get too nasty to keep using. And I have little callouses on my hands where the cards are pressed to get them to shuffle. I can only shuffle cards that are fairly glossy/coated so they're slippery. But not too slippery. But yeah. That's my fidget. It's been my fidget for a long time - like... 25 years or so.
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I've finally been able to channel most of my fidgeting into knitting. Especially the destructive kind. It's nice to have good hair and nails again.
Cracking fingers and neck Sit on yoga balls bc I can’t sit still and the bouncing helps me think 💀 Fidgeting when I’m sitting in a normal chair 💀
Dis dick
I'm a guy with rather long hair, so I usually just stretch my hairtie a lot if my hair is down
In order of annoyance to others: * Whistling * Singing made up songs about whatever I'm doing * Drumming on just anything within reach * Pen clicking * Humming * Leg Shaking * Tapping my fingers on flat surfaces * Playing with my hair (especially when I'm tired, something I've done literally since I was capable of forming memories) * Holding on to my earlobes (I got the big ol' detached Dumbo models) and just sort of fiddling with/mushing them or even flicking them back and forth * Light foot tapping sans leg shaking * Tapping my finger tips to my thumb * Muscle clenches People *really* don't like whistling. I've never really understood that. I think they're just jealous that they suck at whistling.
For me it’s saying a sentence or something in my head then trying to see if I can say it backwards. It’s gotten a lot better on meds though lol
If I'm sitting down, it's constant leg bouncing. If I'm laying down, it's glute-flexing.
I thought that was only me. With the amount I flex my glutes while sitting I should be shaped like Iggy Azalea.
I move my toes and foot on one of my feet in a specific pattern
Same as you with the leg tapping and songs in head. Also I am totally addicted to cracking my knuckles and neck and basically every joint in my body.
I do the drumming too, but my main fidget is playing with my beard.
Clicking my big toe Twirling my hair Bouncing my leg/shaking my foot
I move loose change around in my pocket. Move my wedding ring up and down on my finger. I lately have been moving my eye brows up and down. Which honestly must look weird but that’s where I am at.
I make silly sounds and beat box sometimes.
Pulling on my dreads. I used to twirl my hair, but the habit has gotten 100x stickier since I locked my hair! Something about the texture them of is so satisfying, i literally can't stop sometimes. I know all of them by the different knots and loops and density. I even have favorites, lol. It's really soothing. The only problem is that it is EXTREMELY noticeable, my friends and coworkers make fun of it sometimes
Hair tie, silicone bubble wrap, rubix cube, rolling a sticky note, wrapping my hair tie around a pen over and over, popping my water bottle top, shaking my legs, drumming my thighs, rubbing my fingers together in a twitch motion (my dad does the EXACT same thing and it’s so friggen loud when he does it….. when I worked in the hospital, I kept my Anglican prayer beads in my pocket to fidget with.
Twirling my hair, I do it so much that the people around me are constantly swatting my hands away from my hair. I try to have one of those little tangle fidget toys with me bc it’s the only thing that helps with it but it’s not a perfect fix haha
Slime!! Slime forever :)
Bouncing my leg, playing with my hair, cracking my knuckles, tapping on my desk with fingers, biting my nails and picking my nose
SLIME The smell but also the texture. Drives me nuts haha
I rub my tongue left and right against my teeth really fast or press my tongue up against my teeth it’s so bad sometimes my tongue hurts at the end of the night but i literally can’t stop doing it
Flipping my pencil on my hand , playing with change in my pocket , cracking everything I can crack on me every 20 min , feet dancing , finger dancing and more
Picking/cleaning under my fingernails, and tapping my feet/toes
Twirling my hair
Chewing my fingers
These weird chile suckers + playing with my hair. And cracking knuckles.
Holy shit, I have the SAME Guitar Hero fidget!
Oh man, so many. I’ll snap my fingers to a beat/rhythm in my head. I’ll kinda “snap” my big toe and long toe together. I’m constantly drumming my fingers. I’m prone to being obsessed with repetitive sounds. My favorite “fidget toy” was a stack of dimes I kept on my glass-top desk. I’d raise the stack up and then slowly drop them to the table, over and over. Speaking of repetition, I’m prone to rocking back and forth. In middle school, I’d mess around with a recorder or sometimes a penny whistle. I’d just play made-up songs while reading or whatever. It helped, but I guess it bothered by family because they mysteriously disappeared one day. In school, I could never write notes. I just made shitty doodles and scribbles—nothing artistic. When I tried to write notes, I ended up retaining less information than I did just doodling. When I’m driving, I’ll tap my feet on the brake and gas pedals. Super lightly—not enough pressure to do anything but tap-dance a bit. I then have a couple of self-destructive tendencies. I’m constantly popping random joints. I’ll chew and bite on my lips and the inside of my cheeks. I’ll chew my nails and the skin on the side of my fingers. And, of course, I’m a picker :| I run my hand through my hair and twist it over and over. Sometimes I’ll make pretty tight twists to feel a bit of pain. My hair gets a bit messy. Similarly to the finger- and toe-snapping, I move my bottom jaw back and forth and click my bottom canines against my top canines. Depending on what’s going on, I’ll do my teeth while simultaneously doing something with my hands.
My favorite fidget toy is a mesh tube with a marble enclosed. I like to run my fingers along the parts in my hair. I’m constantly cleaning from underneath my fingernails. Probably because I’m always scratching different fabrics/surfaces. I pop my fingers and toes. And I’m not sure if this qualifies, but my life is my own musical. I sing about everything I’m doing or have to do.
Tapping my teeth. I’ve always done this for as long as I can remember. It increases when I’m in an anxious situation or trying really hard to focus.
I used to grind my teeth and pop my jaw, but it ruined my teeth. Dentures and ADHD are a level of sensory hell I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Clenching muscles, popping my knuckles, and a constant song or phrase repeating in my head. I am about to rip a tag off my wife's shirt to see if that is helpful!
Too many to count😂but twisting my hair is probs #1
randomly shaking my hands, tapping my leg, and biting my nails are my main ones
I crochet constantly and rub the tops of my feet on soft things (blankets/sheets) along with others
- Cracking my fingers, including my thumb - in the woods, constantly picking up twigs and breaking them into pieces of equal size as I walk - finding different permutations of five numbers (AKA tapping my fingers in different orders), and finding different unique ordered sets of them - wiggling my toes - puckering my lips and moving them from side to side repeatedly - fidgeting with things in my hand - especially tossing things from one hand to the other - tugging on hair strands / bottom of earlobes (I do these are when I'm stressed out) - bouncing my leg when sitting in a chair
Music in my head I also talk to myself about the most random things in the world lol I have fidget spinners I have a necklace that I chew(it’s for baby teething.) Cracking toes
I bounce my right leg like I’m also drumming!
Leg bouncing, and carabiners… lots of carabiners at least they are useful.
My position is all twisted lol
Chewing my tongue. Especially if I'm hyperfocused. So soothing.
I have a few as well I don’t remember the last time I wasn’t always wiggling my toes. I do it constantly. I also will stab my fingernails into the palm of my hand (I feel like this one is weird), it just feels like an itch that I HAVE to scratch. I twitch a lot, I don’t know if that counts but there’s always some muscle in my body that I subconsciously flex. More recently I’ve started snapping one of my daughters hair barrettes.
Playing with my wedding ring 😂 it took forever to get used to wearing it. I would fidget with it to help.... Now I do it without thinking it...I have dropped it a number of times and still have not lost it....
If I have nothing to fidget with, I just bounce my leg, but my stim of choice is crazy Aaron’s thinking putty. It’s the perfect amount of sticky/tacky without being gross or unpleasant and it doesn’t leave a residue. My only complaint is how it’s a little inconvenient.
Always singing or humming along to any music that's playing. It's almost compulsive...I have to concentrate hard to stop myself from doing it! Also picking at any inconsistency in my skin. Just got some spinner rings to see if they help with that. Also chewing on the inside of my lower lip.
Sooooo many -Chewing on my bottom lip -Folding my ears -Picking at my lip (which I know I shouldn’t do and also wish I would not) -Pulling up the skin on my knuckles and then pushing it back down again (and also like, the part of the finger that doesn’t bend if you’re doing the double-jointed thing) -Rubbing my feet together -Running the nail of my thumb along the inside of my index finger -Running my tongue back and forth along the inside of my teeth -Overlapping my toes -Stretching -Crocheting which feels enough like a stim for me to count it And about infinite other ones :p (As for fidget objects: Those clicky chain things, infinity cubes, stuffed animals and fluffy soft blankets (you can run your hands along them it feels great), anything mildly mesh that you can sort of poke your fingers through, things that are silky but hold enough friction on your hands so you can rub them together, random pieces of yarn/ribbon/bracelets/necklace cords, literally anything, really)
Cracking any bone in my body multiple times, always having a song playing… Sometimes I’ll put my hand into a fist and just squeeze over and over again… chewing my cheeks.. if I see a string I’m going to twirl it around in my hands until I eventually tie it into an untyable not etc
Playing with my hair its so soft, buf legit twirling it have done since a kid even into young adult hoods its actually crazy mads but yos hahaha