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Do you fidget?

By February 10, 2009 - 11:16am
 
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Do you fidget?

I'm just now becoming aware of how often I'm fidgeting. I move things on my desk. I change position in my chair while waiting for a web page to load. I think about getting a snack. I pick at a hangnail and then find myself picking at it again a few minutes later. I get a glass of water, then it's a trip to the bathroom, maybe the dogs need out. I get back to work and instead of concentrating, I'm fidgeting again. My fingers seem to be always in motion, even when I'm doing something like reading. It's like they have a mind of their own. Why is this? Why can I not just be still?

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I love the humming bit! My hubby thinks I'm nuts if I break into song or he catches me humming around the house.

Good for you for expressing your joy for life; where's the fault in that?!

February 12, 2009 - 8:41pm

I don’t fidget but I do find myself humming a lot. My mother and my older sister do it too. It’s my mother’s FAULT we do this. When my sister and I are in the house or car we sing about what we are going to do and then add a humming sound to it.

February 12, 2009 - 8:39pm

There are times when I have the hardest time sitting still too. I'm most productive, and happier, when I'm multi-tasking.

February 10, 2009 - 10:58pm
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I fidget constantly, I have since I was little! Even as I write this my knee is bouncing faster than a rabbit. My grandma hates it because it reminds her of her ex husband, HA. It's bad enough that if I'm fidgeting while talking and some one stops my fidgeting I stop talking and can't remember what I was talking about. Though the only people who have ever said anything are my family members.

February 10, 2009 - 8:59pm

I like that angle, Alison!

Yes, I fidget, but I don't look at it that way. I'm constantly putting things away because I can't stand a messy desk.

My Wii Fit asks me if I'm fidgeting, too...hmmm...

February 10, 2009 - 5:21pm

This might help you "reframe" your fidgeting into a positive light:

"The extra motion [fidgeting] by lean people is enough to burn about 350 extra calories a day, which could add up to 10 to 30 pounds a year, the researchers found..." article in Washington Post, January 2008.

Do you think your fidgeting is prohibiting you from being productive?
Have you received negative feedback on your fidgeting?
Do you feel that it is excessive or compulsive?

February 10, 2009 - 3:38pm
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