How or When do you stim?

[EricD]

When do you stim most often? For me, it's when I'm happy/excited. Sound off!

 

[Bellatrix]

Never.

 

[Pondering]

I stim when 1) I'm mildly mentally bored or 2) extremely excited/nervous.

 

[Judge]

Happens involuntarily if I stand in front of the tv set. I begin to rock back and forth.

 

[Nitro]

There is usually some part of my body in motion every waking hour

Right now,both of my big toes are alternating up and down motion in opposite directions

 

[David Larson]

Almost never in the public eye, and if I do it's when I'm overly anxious while talking to someone; otherwise, constantly when I'm at home and in my spot just resting, relaxing, and pursuing happiness.

 

[Southern Discomfort]

When I'm alone, I'm quite self concious about my idiosyncrasies. So it's mostly in my bedroom either when I'm worrying or when I feel the need to stimulate my olfactory sense.

 

[FreeDiver]

You mean like what this kid is doing. I saw this on WP.

 

[inabox]

When I'm very nervous or if my mind wonders and I feel like I'm "somewhere else"

 

[liliputput]

There is usually some part of my body in motion every waking hour

Right now,both of my big toes are alternating up and down motion in opposite directions

Same here. I'm constantly moving, usually my toes. Or biting/picking on skin around my nails.

 

[Sully]

There is usually some part of my body in motion every waking hour

Right now,both of my big toes are alternating up and down motion in opposite directions

I do that too, usually when I go to bed.

 

[Nitro]

Same here. I'm constantly moving, usually my toes. Or biting/picking on skin around my nails.

Another stim I use in public is rocking out to music where I only look like I am really into the song and not just a freakazoid

 

[Sully]

When do you stim most often? For me, it's when I'm happy/excited. Sound off!

When a lot of people are around or when someone talks to me too much and I want quiet time to concentrate.

 

[Adora]

I do it when I'm nervous or excited I will rub my hands or knuckles my husband tells me to stop it I also pace up and down when in my room which was a also a habit I did when I was thinking of ideas for drawings.

 

[ASD_Geek]

Either excited, nervous, bored or standing in line. Pretty much anytime... Lol

 

[Coupe]

I think I tend to stim the most when I'm anxious or just bored.

 

[Datura]

I tend to sim when I am anxious, bored, or in deep thought. I used to pace in in the presence of other people all the time until it was made apparent that this was not acceptable.

 

[Sofi]

I think mostly when I am excited about something to do with an interest or the look of something... or no apparent reason.

 

[qwerty]

i bundle up the stimming if i am out in the public eye, or play with my keys or something in my pocket, i once had a squidgy woogely stretchy yoyo thing that was just the best way to stim on the down low, only prob is the break pretty easily.

i probably stim more when i am upset, otherwise i just do it impulsively.

 

[On the Inside]

Most any waking minute. Wiggle my toes, play "air piano" on my knees, run various things under my fingernails, bit my lip or cheek, rhythmically tense and relax various muscles, twirl my hair if it is long enough. I think that I am doing them so subtly that no one notices, so I will do them in public, but I have been called on it sometimes.