hands near face. Does anyone else do that?

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15 Dec 2014, 4:46 am

I don't put my hands near my face for the same reason. For me it's more of a nervous tic. I only do it when I'm self-conscious or embarrassed and I'm really just trying to hide myself from view. I'm saying "don't look at me".

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15 Dec 2014, 1:07 pm

During my therapy session this morning I caught myself having my head tilted 45 degrees to the left resting on my knuckles and with the thumb stuck between my teeth.

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15 Dec 2014, 2:32 pm

Yah - I do this a lot as well.

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15 Dec 2014, 6:45 pm

I do it too, but I never knew, it was a stim. My father did it too.

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15 Dec 2014, 7:02 pm

US National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health wrote:

Face touching in monkeys, apes and man evolutionary origins and cerebral asymmetry.
Dimond S, Harries R.
Abstract

The evolution of face touching, i.e. the use of the hand to touch the individual's own face, was studied in monkeys, apes and man with the object of examining which hand is used and which part of the face is touched. Monkeys show little if any face touching. Gorillas, orang- utans and chimpanzees show face-touching comparable to man. Left-hand face touching was superior to right-hand touching for both apes and humans. One feature which distinguished humans from other apes was the frequency of chin touching, which is generally high for man. It has been suggested that emotions are expressed more intensely on the left side of the face and it was thought that the left hand is used by the right hemisphere as a special pointer to heighten the effect of this.

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Seems ordinary enough.

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20 Dec 2014, 12:54 am

Always.

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