Are you fidgety?

[WaylonJennings]

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.

 

[expendable]

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

 

[Mighty_Wingman]

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.

 

[slappy4428]

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

 

[buckweaver]

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.

 

[Beaker]

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

 

[Diabeetus]

I only fidget on Mondays and Tuesdays.

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

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

 

[hockeybeat]

For sure, I fidget.

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

 

[Pulitzer Wannabe]

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

Absolutely.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

Oh man, I can not sit still. Whether it's leg tapping, knuckle cracking, neck cracking, whatever. I fidget. It's not really being nervous or anything. I just seem to always have to be doing something, unless I'm concentrating on doing nothing. I have to go outside at least once a day unless I'm realllllllllllllly sick, and that rarely happens. Even then, by day two I'm going stir crazy.

 

[expendable]

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

 

[Pulitzer Wannabe]

Big-time pen chewer here. I'm ashamed when someone asks to borrow one, because it always looks like a puppy got ahold of it.

 

[dreunc1542]

My mom used to yell at my brother and I because we would chew the ends of all our pens. I have many other fidgety habits, the worst of which is that I chew my nails like crazy.

 

[novelist_wannabe]

I've never fidgeted before. I did sashay once ...[/billycrystal]

 

[jakewriter82]

I've tried to stop biting my nails, but sadly I don't even realize I bite them anymore. If I can make myself be aware I'm biting them I can stop, I think.

Doesn't everyone get a little fidgety after a while, though?

 

[JakeandElwood]

Absolutely. I can't sit still at all.

 

[BYH]

Oh man, I can not sit still. Whether it's leg tapping, knuckle cracking, neck cracking, whatever. I fidget. It's not really being nervous or anything. I just seem to always have to be doing something, unless I'm concentrating on doing nothing. I have to go outside at least once a day unless I'm realllllllllllllly sick, and that rarely happens. Even then, by day two I'm going stir crazy.

This is true. You were quite the bundle of energy at the ballpark. :D

I'm a fidgeter too. Sometimes I look down and wonder how long I've been bouncing my foot up and down on the recliner.

 

[Norman Stansfield]

I fidget like crazy on planes. People probably think I have Tourette's or something. I have long legs and I can never get comfortable.

And I have a friend who's a serial pen chewer. He's good for biting all the way through and getting ink all over his lips and face at least once a year.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Every time you fidget, God kills a kitten