Not a stimmer ?

Thank you all for replying. Having thought about what you have said, & caught myself fidgeting with the buttons my shirt & zip toggels on my trouser pockets while doing so, I realise I stim quite a bit. What I don't know is if I do this more so than would an NT. I don't have obviously unusual stims that I'm aware of , nor can I recall ever having had such with the possible exception of touching hair/fur when very little, 2-3yrs old. My Grandma had a mink fur broach that I constantly stoked whenever I could get at it, so my parents made sure she didn't ware it when we visited. I realised this was odd so I stopped doing it. I still like certain textures including running hair between my fingers & can vividly remember the (very pleasurable) feeling of that fur broach. Unfortunately my late wife hated having her hair touched. I also recall having had trouble with nail biting as a child & my parents trying various methods make me stop. I did but can't recall if it was through their intervention. Hair twirling & nail biting aren't unusual though & I don't know enough about normal peoples habits to be sure if mine would have be considered excessive or abnormally compulsive. Nor if what I do now qualifies as such. What you have made me notice is that I do do a wide variety of very discrete stimming but this hasn't ever been mentioned to me by anyone. Maybe I should start a list :)

Some of your comments have also jogged my memory about my late wife's habits. She compulsively counted things, stair steps in particular as she used them. She also habitually made & liked lists. kept utility bills, bank statements & kept detailed household accounts. The more I think about it the more I think she too may have had ASD1, which could well explain why we got on so well.

Thanks again.

Thank you all for replying. Having thought about what you have said, & caught myself fidgeting with the buttons my shirt & zip toggels on my trouser pockets while doing so, I realise I stim quite a bit. What I don't know is if I do this more so than would an NT. I don't have obviously unusual stims that I'm aware of , nor can I recall ever having had such with the possible exception of touching hair/fur when very little, 2-3yrs old. My Grandma had a mink fur broach that I constantly stoked whenever I could get at it, so my parents made sure she didn't ware it when we visited. I realised this was odd so I stopped doing it. I still like certain textures including running hair between my fingers & can vividly remember the (very pleasurable) feeling of that fur broach. Unfortunately my late wife hated having her hair touched. I also recall having had trouble with nail biting as a child & my parents trying various methods make me stop. I did but can't recall if it was through their intervention. Hair twirling & nail biting aren't unusual though & I don't know enough about normal peoples habits to be sure if mine would have be considered excessive or abnormally compulsive. Nor if what I do now qualifies as such. What you have made me notice is that I do do a wide variety of very discrete stimming but this hasn't ever been mentioned to me by anyone. Maybe I should start a list :)

Some of your comments have also jogged my memory about my late wife's habits. She compulsively counted things, stair steps in particular as she used them. She also habitually made & liked lists. kept utility bills, bank statements & kept detailed household accounts. The more I think about it the more I think she too may have had ASD1, which could well explain why we got on so well.

Thanks again.