Is this a stim?

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When I'm in a stressful situation and I want to calm down, listening to my watch? Is listening to one's watch considered a stim?

Thank you for your time.

I think it just counts as a calming mechanism because a "stim" is by definition a "self-stimulating behavior"

If it is very repetitive, possibly. I think listening to a certain segment of a song over and over or a YouTube clip over and over, hand-flapping, pencil tapping, rocking, those are stims. With all of these, they tend to also cause a bit of excitement, but rocking can be calming. So, maybe it is a stim.

I used to drum my fingers a lot as a kid. But it was random drumming, I can trace it to a portion of the William Tell Overture (for those of you familiar with classical music). The thing is I could never find a common thread among the times I'd do it and I only do it nowadays when I'm feeling impatient or bored.

i have a terrible habit of highlighting paragraphs of text with the mouse and then clicking on them to unhighlight them. i tend to do it without noticing. is this just a habit or some kind of stim?

Fidgeting is doing little movements if you are under stimulated or even over stimulated.

Stimming is what you do to deal with stress. As soon as I enter town I shake my hand. I also do a little dance when I wait at a red light.