MrEGuy
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| Hand flapping, brings back memories. Overtime I learned to slow it down into gestures. When I get excited I do still over-do it, though. I wouldn't quite call it flapping, but I'm probably just lying to myself. |
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| Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:44 am Post subject: |
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27 years old and I still flap.
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BuyerBeware
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2011 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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I'm 33 and I still do it when I'm really excited. I just tell people I'm gesticulating wildly on account of being 1/4 Italian!
My Dad was 58 and still flapped his hands when he was very happy or angry or had an emphatic point to make. No one thought anything of it-- they just thought he was a very passionate speaker!
I would very much like to get rid of the urge to bang my forehead against walls when anticipating something stressful, though. I do it very gently but it still freaks people out. I try very hard to substitute pacing for head-banging. That bugs them too, but not nearly as much.
Sitting in the psych room in the ER, I pulled out all my eyebrows because the room was too small to pace and I knew banging my head against the wall would get me sedated in a hurry. It took six weeks for the eyebrows to grow back but did not upset anyone-- tapping my head against the wall would have done no damage whatever but would have had all the staff in an uproar.
Sometimes NTs make NO SENSE.
Moral of the story-- Stim and smile, and f**k 'em if they can't take a joke. A few years out of adolescence, anyone with any sense will have more important things than a little hand-flapping to worry about. Just try not to do it on a crowded bus, lol. Hope you can work out a more space-efficient stim for crowded places. I like hair twirling, finger-wiggling, head-bobbing, and bouncing on the balls of my feet.
Hair-twirling's innocent-- for girl anyway. I can pass the rest of them off as "too much coffee."
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Pinnygig
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Over 30 and hand-flap shamelessly wherever I happen to be. It's usually accompanied by child-like squeals so people usually just think I'm being deliberately daft and let me off  |
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fantomeq
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31, sort of just started. I'm going through a stressful time so I do it deliberately when I'm nervous, to feel better, but apparently I have been unconsciously when very excited or upset--forever, in addition to jumping up and down. I never noticed, because I haven't been showing my feelings much for the past few years and nobody's commented on it.
As I like how it makes me feel, people are going to have to deal with it. In a long meeting when I'm nervous, I'm trying to tone it down to rubbing my hands together. |
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Sparx
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:11 am Post subject: |
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*Raises hand*
I try not to do it in front of people. If I'm in public and I feel overly excited I'll wiggle my fingers instead. |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:06 am Post subject: |
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thfy
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:59 am Post subject: |
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... Wait. Hand-flapping is an aspie thing? But. But. It's so fantastically fantastic. There is no other way to express that degree of excitement. I mean, now that I think of it, I've never seen an NT do it, but I seriously thought it was a normal gesture. I'm 17, I have been doing it forever. Every time I'm really excited or happy about something.
I also jump up and down and/or stand on my tip toes and/or start talking really fast, if it's Special Interest-related. I really doubt I'll ever stop. It's about as natural as smiling. I've never felt self-conscious about it enough to want to not do it in public (I've never quite realized it was odd), but I doubt that I could even if I did. I'm not usually that happy in public, anyways.  |
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TheKing
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 12:35 pm Post subject: Re: asf |
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| FreeSpirit2000 wrote: | | Sometimes I tend to twirl things into the air when I am laying down, or when I am at school sitting in class, I pretend that my eraser is a finger skateboard. |
i do that also! i used to, in elementary school, make imaginary games at my desk with stuff like that to entertain me when i got bored.
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andrew_the_advocate
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| Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:52 pm Post subject: I was never much a "stimmer"... |
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I was diagnosed as Aspie in 2000... I never really "stimmed" excessively, and it was never a problem, but I like the feeling of hand flapping... I just do it in private. I don't do it really that often but it's always kind of fun.
As for the toes, I never noticed myself doing that, until you brought it up. |
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MakaylaTheAspie
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 12:15 am Post subject: |
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I'll actually walk on my heels, but yeah, sometimes I flap my hands (involuntarily).
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TeamRetic
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| Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I still hand flap and I am getting old. It only happens when I either overexcited or mad, but I do it in private so no one laughs. |
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KatieKakes
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| Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 1:46 am Post subject: |
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| I still hand flap & I'm almost 18 :3 of course not in public though. I usually do it when I'm listening to a song that I really like or I'm excited for something :3 |
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Squirsh
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| Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 12:05 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm 17 and hand-flap. Most of the time I manage not to do it in public but when I'm alone in my room or with close friends who I know won't tease me, I just let myself do it. Even when my face doesn't show how I'm feeling, my hands do. |
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Shishka
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| It kinda feels like you've got an excess of excitement energy and you just have to let it out. As for walking on my toes, I've been doing that ever since I could stand, doesn't matter what I'm feeling. |
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