Are you fidgety?

This is embarrassing, but I'm a fidgeter. :-[ I'm like a 4-year-old. I play with my pen. I play with the buttons on my shirt. I bounce my leg around under the table. I can't keep my hands away from my face. I'm always dropping things because of it, etc., etc.

I used to be a smoker, and I don't know if I smoked because I fidget or I fidget because I smoked. Doesn't matter. I'd like to stop because it's probably distracting for other people to watch and it's annoying for me.

I don't know if I have OCD or maybe ADD, but I'm not otherwise depressed or anything. Just can't stop moving around and messing with things.

I'm sure quitting caffeine might be a good first step, but I was wondering if there were any other chronic fidgeters on the board who can commisserate.

 

Being fidgety takes energy. I'm too lazy to fidget.

 

I've cut way down on my caffeine intake, but I still fidget: Tapping my fingers on tables, absent-mindedly flipping my cellphone or tape recorder, tapping pens, the leg bounce, the whole nine yards. I can't buy those pens whose points click out, because I'll click 'em 100 times a minute without even knowing what I'm doing.

I've never really had any complaints at work, but it's driven every woman I've ever lived with up the wall.

I don't have any idea if there's a way -- short of medication -- to control fidgeting. But good luck.

 

If I said no, Ms. Slappy would shoot me..

 

Caffeine's a big part of it, at least for me. I fidget anyway -- the tapping of the foot always drove my mom up the wall when I was a kid -- but I fidget more when I'm wired.

 

Definite fidgeter here-I'm a chronic leg tapper.

 

I only fidget on Mondays and Tuesdays.

 

I'm not a fidgeter, however, I do chew on the ends of pens.
Is that in the same class?

 

For sure, I fidget.

Actually, that's not true. I bounce around like a super ball.

 

Absolutely.

 

Y'all would drive me absolutely nuts. Stop moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!