Joe90 wrote:
I see NTs wriggle their fingers or fiddle with their fingers when they talk to eachother, all the time. Or when they sit, I often see them move their foot up or down, or tap their fingers on a wall. That is all normal.
The movements what NTs don't do so much is wave their arms about or flap their hands above their head, or whatever. But little finger movements is quite normal. NTs don't just stand or sit stock still all the time.
Certain kinds of finger movements, yeah, but I've not seen too many people wriggle them pointed upwards and/or in front of one eye or the other (not that I do that one in public much). And actually when I was in about 6th grade I did disguise some finger stims by turning them into normal-looking finger tapping, but they go back to what they originally were if I don't think about it.
It is interesting to wonder if it serves a similar function (stress? processing ?), just on a less intense level, though. Like how NT's can be induced (and even animals) to rock if put under lots of stress (or some if they're just thinking really hard). There doesn't seem to be a hard boundary between NT stimming and ASC stimming.
19 Jan 2011, 12:26 pm
