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
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.
*Bouncing intensifies*
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.
Fool me once, devil. I’m not torsioning these testicles
I do this and yet any time I realize it’s bothering someone I stop and am only bothered that it bothered them.
I appreciate you
You can appreciate them, but know in 10 mins when it starts up again they tried.
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.
As a leg bouncer I have very little control over this.
The second my brain stops looking my leg is going to restart.
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.
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.
I’ll do it for like a few seconds and stop because I’m irritating myself lol
Major mood
There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.
I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.
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.
it’s true,we’re trying to kill you
Just as I suspected!
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 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.
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.
I do that in the car. Whenever I was going somewhere with my ex, they’d always tell me to stop, lol.
With the foot on the gas pedal?
Haha, no. But that’s a hilarious to think about.
Tried it, my car just ignores it
I see why they’re your ex
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.
No science but do you do regular sport?
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.
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.
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.
Might’ve just been wooden floor boards
It’s a symptom of PaD you might be subconsciously maintaining blood flow with the leg shaky shakes.
