Do you fidgit?

[Avelestar]

I spend a fair amount of time watching movies/anime/youtube, talking on skype/msn on my computer, and if I'm not actually gaming my hands have to do something or I just can't relax and enjoy it. Even in lectures at uni if I'm not writing I need to be twirling my pen or doodling. So I fidgit, and in the past this has taken many different forms.

I used to have a stress ball...till the dog chewed it up. Then I would shuffle cards, till I did it so much they got ruined. Now all I've got on my desk to play with is an old stapler, so I did. Took me all of 5 minutes of absent mindly clicking it open and shut to put a staple straight into my thumb...I now play with an empty stapler.

So my question is, do you fidgit? When, where, how and what with?

 

[Omikron009]

I fidget with objects all the time, because if I don't I'll bit and pick at my nails.

 

[flangleelgnalf]

nope, when im not doing something actively i tend to be perfectly still. im assuming thats odd.

 

[ottenni]

YES. Always, i cant sit still. I'm always doing something, usually i twirl pens, thats a habit i picked up in school. Also i could roll coins over my knuckles, also something i learned in school. If i am sitting still it must be a good movie or a good game that i am playing or whatever.

 

[tombman888]

yes, with my feet. they don't stop moving, they just keep tapping constantly on the ground. Not so much my hands, but i usually tap my fingers on the desk alot.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

I fidget all the time, usually with little things I can roll in my fingers. Plastic coins, glass beads, whipped cream charger holders (those silver doohickies on the opposite end of the cap from where the cream comes out).

I can't help it... I have this restlessness that won't be assuaged til I'm where I wanna be. And that's not for at LEAST six damn weeks.

 

[Mimssy]

constantly. I fidget with the first knuckle of my fingers and I have a weird fidget with my toes too. It's hard to explain. After a certain amount of time though, my twitching starts to irritate myself.

 

[MasterWhatever]

I do the typical leg shake, whenever I play games on PC.

 

[Shemming]

yes i do constantly, even when doing things. And i generaly dont relise im doing it.

 

[The Geek Lord]

I remember playing Tales of Symphonia 2, and the cutscenes were so remarkably boring that I started doing swordplay with the Wiimote while that mysterious "story" thing was going on. Not that it mattered if I was paying attention or not, since that story line was insufferable... Except that I played through the whole game. Bad self, no masochism, bad self, no masochism, bad self...

Also, in school, I tend to make really weird doodles[footnote]Typically drills, weird sunglasses... Yeah, I'm that much of a Gurren Lagann fanboy.[/footnote] when the teacher is lecturing us on the subject. Even when I actually find it interesting, I just kinda... Draw.

 

[Mockingjay]

I chew my pen, my nails, the skin around my nails, my lip and the inside of my mouth...

 

[ethaninja]

I do when I'm not thinking. Otherwise, I just sit there in silence.

 

[AvsJoe]

Yes I do. When I'm not even remotely playing with my hands, they go nuts; usually destroying something in a way I cannot later explain or combining two or three objects into something only found in the first couple circles of Hell.

 

[manaman]

Fidgeting is also called nervous energy. It's excess energy. Try exercising during the day, get out and run a mile or two each day. You won't do it much anymore, if at all. You will sleep better, and spend less time sleeping as well.

 

[Betancore]

I'm always jiggling my leg up and down, it really annoys everyone else when I've got my foot resting on something because the whole table shakes. I also fidget with my pens and writing utensils, I've broken a fair few because I get so bored. And I quite literally twiddle my thumbs sometimes.

 

[Yoshi4507]

i cant keep still too long either. i have to tap my feet to a beet as if i were using a double bass pedal to a drum set. im not a drummer, im a bassist!

 

[The Hairminator]

I usually chew on plastic ;_;

Have no idea why.

 

[JIst00]

Always, unless im alseep, and Ive been told I fidgit a lot asleep too.

I have to be moving, tapping my feet, drummin my fingers, smoking, clicking my tongue cracking my fingers, something all the time.

 

[insectoid]

I always fidget if I'm not particularly doing anything, usually tapping my fingers (or even my toes if I'm trying to be discreet). Helps me think.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Yeah, I'm a drummer so I have a habit of always tapping some kind of beat with my hands and feet.