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When you have sensory problems and there’s a leg bouncer won’t/can’t stop it’s like they are trying to kill you with vibrations in your chair the floor the air your brain

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[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 13 minutes ago

I've legit just started:

"Can you stop shaking your leg?"

"No."

"Excuse me?"

"I'm literally physically unable to control it, so, no I can't stop. Sorry."

I'm not even trying to be funny or lying, just deadpan matter of fact truth: no, I cannot.

[–] Greddan@feddit.org 29 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I had a biology teacher in middle school who said boys/men bouncing their leg are masturbating their prostate. She would also slander boys/men in any way she could during every class. Getting good grades as a boy in her class was impossible. Not my weirdest teacher but still memorable.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 minutes ago

She needs to be transferred to basically any subject other than biology, seeing as she has clearly demonstrated her lack of knowledge on the subject.

[–] some_random_nick@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 34 minutes ago)

Care to share what the weirdest one was, because that was weird as hell.

[–] gex@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

*Bouncing intensifies*

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I do this and yet any time I realize it's bothering someone I stop and am only bothered that it bothered them.

[–] bees@sh.itjust.works 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mcdolan@lemmy.world 13 points 18 hours ago

You can appreciate them, but know in 10 mins when it starts up again they tried.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 44 points 22 hours ago

As a leg bouncer I have very little control over this.

The second my brain stops looking my leg is going to restart.

[–] Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I work in a tiny office right next to my manager who leg bounces, hand flaps, is heavy-handed on his keyboard, and externalises his thoughts all the time. But when ever I leg bounce he’ll let me know how distracting it is.

I’m so close to a HR incident I swear to god.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The trick is to bounce both legs but in opposite directions. When one is going up the other is going down, cancelling each other out.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Fool me once, devil. I'm not torsioning these testicles

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 31 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'm typically very idle and upset by noise and fidgeting so other autistic people make me want to explode like you're putting too much nuclear material together and making it reach critical mass.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I'm both like you and a fidgeter myself. It sucks. I do try to fidget subtlely- I like rubbing my fingernails with the thumb of the same hand.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

I just put my piano fingers in my pockets while I'm walking around. I think it looks sophisticated.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I'll do it for like a few seconds and stop because I'm irritating myself lol

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago
[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

I've had someone recognise I'm a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.

[–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 6 points 18 hours ago

There's leg bouncing and there's the house is shaking leg bouncing.

I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

it's true,we're trying to kill you

[–] bees@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago

Just as I suspected!

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 8 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

I do that in the car. Whenever I was going somewhere with my ex, they'd always tell me to stop, lol.

[–] Hubi@feddit.org 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

With the foot on the gas pedal?

[–] SpicyTaint@lemmy.world 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Haha, no. But that's a hilarious to think about.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Tried it, my car just ignores it

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 9 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Yareckt@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 21 hours ago

For me it's enough to rearrange my legs so I'm no longer able to bounce them to stop. An easy fix tbh. Though I do enjoy bouncing my leg when it happens and I'm not bothering people but I don't have to bounce.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I am really, really sorry. That really bothers me when people do it, but I know it helps them. I try to tolerate it if I'm not having an awful sensory day, but sometimes it's like the noisy lightbulb and I just can't take it.

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

For me, leg bouncing isn't 'helping' anything so much as my leg just does that and to stop it takes constant effort. The moment I get distracted it goes back to bouncing.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Btw why do i bounce my leg? Whats the science there. It doesnt bother me thst much to stop and i dont stress or anything its just kinda nice to do it when im sitting. I also just move my leg to a rythm when im lying down for example.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

No science but do you do regular sport?

[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 17 hours ago

Don't and never have done regular sport and I'm pretty bad for it. I think it's just restlessness or helping blood flow.

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

Huh... not science on my part either but i played waterpolo for 6 years 7 times a week and this is basically the most fundamental technique of the sport.

[–] okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

One time worked in an office building with a pretty shitty floor on the second floor. Wouldn't have surprised me if it wasn't really all that structurally sound, because I could bounce my leg, just like I am doing right now, and the dude sitting next desk over could feel it in the floor. I ended up moving to another desk to avoid the conflict with the coworker... and in case the building was shitty enough that it was a weak spot in the floor.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Might've just been wooden floor boards

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

It's a symptom of PaD you might be subconsciously maintaining blood flow with the leg shaky shakes.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 minutes ago

Phallic Assured Destruction?