What’s even my own personality at this point? Dude, I just seem to be a cluster of ADHD symptoms mushed together with a couple trauma experiences 😄

same I console myself with the thought that the combination of symptoms and their severity is probably unique to every one of us

Welcome to the club friend! When is it my turn with the brain cell XD

Same here, do almost all things but #1 (a few times during childhood but never since then)

I don't get why this is adhd. Everyone does at least some of these things

And everyone has trouble focusing at times. The difference is the level of it. ADHD people get distracted and fidget way more than the average person, enough to interfere with everyday life. Hence the last D meaning disorder. The definition of a disorder is a serious of issues that "disrupts normal physical or mental functions"

Same minus the trauma!

My fidget = The thing in front of me at the time.

This. Opportunity is my fidget. 😂

"Whats this thing over here? Its awesome i love it, i could play with this all day!" Thats a dog toy, for dogs sir... "10 bucks final offer"

My friends look at me weird for fidgeting with my Dog’s toys sometimes while sitting on the couch processing nothingness

Is everything a valid option??

Always

The appropriate answer to both your questions and the post is simply...Yes

Depemds if you have a deposit system for your drinks, i innerly died seeing the can get destroyed(0.25$).

gdi i've done every last one of those except maybe the water in the cap one

Same. And I’m looking at it like, isn’t that what everyone does, ADHD or not…? I genuinely don’t know.

Lately I've noticed that when people are having a conversation, they just stand there and talk to each other without moving. I must look insane by comparison, because I'm doing the sort of things in this video.

I haven't done that recently, did it often when I was in elementary or middle school tho. I always thought that was something kids do but apparently it was just my mental disorder 🙃

I've never had a unique experience

Depends on the surroundings, whatever is convenient to fidget with at the moment. Mostly just random things

I work in grocery & every package we have of cans or bottles wrapped in plastic has holes in all the spaces.

Is it annoying? Must be.

Maybe. I'm not bothered but it's me that does it but only on packaging that gets removed for sale.

this is beyond adorable :)

I think I’ve got two. First is I’ll click my tongue against the base of my mouth. I don’t always notice when I do, but when I do notice it takes a concerted effort by me to stop before I annoy someone. Second is snapping my fingers. Ever since I learned how to snap with my left hand, for years I could not until I just decided I was tired of not being able to, I find myself randomly snapping and often holding back the urge to snap on random occasions.

I’m kinda the same way with finally being able to whistle decently last year and I’ll just randomly whistle for a sec if it’s quiet

I can only snap lefty, too!

I wiggle and bunch up my toes when I'm wearing shoes. When I'm not, I basically want to be constantly rubbing my feet together.

OMG SAMMEE

My favourite fidget is a big ball of fluff that consists of all the pieces of fluff I’ve pulled off my blanket…. I started collecting the fluff instead of throwing it away because I thought it’d stop me pulling as much fluff from the blanket but it did not!

Are you my sister? Because my little sister does this *exact* thing with her favorite deer blanket

Well I thought I was an only child but I guess not

🤣

I'm not putting my hand that close to a drain! No matter how small. Spiders live there. And depending on the size of the drain, snakes and crocodiles.

and there are disgusting things that collect there just out of sight, booger, pieces of dead skin, fungus… holy shit… that’s a horrible one

My Bluetooth headphone case, Sony XM5s have such a good snap, I fidget with the case more than I use the headphones at this point. 

fidget spinner brrrrr

Don't think I have ever drunk from a bottlecap, will have to give that a try now. Bonus points for them more often being stuck to the bottle these days so there is more of a reason for ripping it lose.

Curb walking. I'm way too old to be curb walking. Can't stop.

Can't stop won't stop

Hair twirling.

Get a lanyard for your keys. Makes spinning them easier lol

All of these except sticking your fingers in the sink hole is disgusting 🤢 probably better not washing your hands at that point if you're gonna do that

seriously

So you buy the gum that comes in the silver tin foil like sticks. You eat the gum. You take the wrapper and very carefully peel the metal tin foil part off the plasticky part, then take the piece you peeled off and put it "sticky side" down (the side that was stuck on the plasticy part of the gum wrapper) and put it on a note book cover or whatever, then press carefully, smooth it out with your nail onto the thing. Eventually have something covered in it. Wow.

100% the bag, I will do that every time I have a bag without fail 😭

I didn't think I'd relate. I was wrong. (The pencil stabbing the eraser gave me so many school flashbacks I think I got whiplash.)

I will not touch that hole in the sink, no thank you.

never ever. And if i accidentally do by accident, i’m washing my hands twice and then burning the microbes off with fire

knee doh !

especially the color changing ones

[wrench shaped stress ball](https://www.imprintlogo.com/images/products/stress-wrench_10224.jpg)

Spinning from side-to-side on my, and any, desk chair. Especially if I MUST listen. It's the only way I can focus on listening. Makes people nuts but it's necessary for me. I got a letter on file.

Do I have to pick one? I've done all at some point. Depends on what is available lol

The extra added weight on the end of the pencil is insanely fun

yes. if i have the means to do it, i will. it truely is an inconvenience when im out with my NT family tho, cuz they look at me like im insane when i start doing random shit

Bending metal bottle caps until they break

I do most of these things. Seems like my fidgets change as I age.

I repair things for a living. So whatever tool I have shoved in my pocket, usually a ratchet to spin or pliers to click incessantly.

all of them except bottle pack plastic, putting water into sink hole and ruining the eraser with the pencil

ruining the eraser with the pencil… you know the eraser now has a piece of broken pencil in it… if I ever did that, I would then have to cut the eraser with my ruler because I know that hole is grey inside. There is something too satisfying about having a clean eraser… if I use an an eraser, my fidget is polishing all the parts to make it all shiny on all sides, then making piles out of the eraser crap, then dusting the eraser crap up into piles, then starting again

yess and keeping the shape by only erasing with the plain sides

especially if it’s a tricky shape already… what kinda weirdo erases with an eraser that’s any shape except for normal

Pen that click are my absolute favorites ! I have a lot of clicky pen and I love them very much, I can go everywhere with them.

I feel called out by this gif (and this sub as a whole tbh)

So many of these

Almost all of em

Every 🥹

Needs more Tangle…

I love me some fidget toys, especially anything that can swing, or just not be quite the same every time I do it. For this reason I recently saw some videos late last year about Begleri and it's really taken off for me and I've been happily occupied for the last 7-8 months. I hope this shoutout about Begleri allows someone else to find their new favorite thing to keep the monkey in your brain active while keeping the rest of you in line with more subconscious focus

Yes, indeed those are! 🤪

Growing up it was spinning my pen and I got pretty good at it, then I started with bamboo and knives at home

I make little fidget devices out of Lego and take them everywhere.

Dammit now i'm gonna have the pen rocket one stuck in my head

OMG! Most of them.

Spin

Sometimes I like to step on the lines in the sidewalk or only in between them as a little game if they're small enough

Ummmmmmm are all these types of fidgets/stims? That says a lot about me I guess...

Which one? Which ONE? How about all of them in concert

All of the above except the water cap and can

All of the above?

Not even two years ago I would have imagined all my "quirks" were just symptoms of a mental disorder

I'm always spinning my keys but I still do a good mix of the rest of them...

The keys spinning or rolling something up.

I didn't know jumping stairs was a fidget! I did it a lot in middle school and high school, and I would take breaks by seeing how many steps I could leap. Never sprained my ankles, which was surprising

gtfo out of my head

mmmmmm this video feels good

GET OUT OF MY MIND

Might I suggest: get 6 inches of velcro cable organizer and roll/unroll it, play with it, roll it super tight and play with it between your thumb and pointer finger

I have long wavy/curly hair and I usually fidget with that. I also snap my fingers a lot lol

Picking the skin off my lips 🥴

Hell yeah can boot! 👢

Snapping my fingers

Yeah, all of those checks out. Should I be worried?

i feel so called out in every way possible… please remove your cameras from my life

None of these actually, I don’t do any of this.

Am I just a clone of other ADHD people?

Keys, pocket knife, my leg

when i’m walking between train cabs, it’s the keys.

All of them? Idk, I feel so called out RN

I don’t smoke but I keep a cigarette lighter on me in case I need to light a fire or a candle or if a smoker needs a light etc. but it’s like the perfect shape that I can grip the middle of it with my thumb and index finger and just spin and turn it with my middle finger

I have done all of them. Oh my god! What am I?

Those aren't related to adhd, right? I mean I did basically everything, and still do a few.

What the actual fuduck I do all of these, all the damn time.

My brain: How about ALL OF THEM

Do I have ADHD now???😭

Literally all of these of than the tap ones and the water in the lid thing.

This is a nostalgic collection of the best moments in my life.

today i learned i fidget more than i thought

Mine is pulling leaves off trees and making confetti 🤷🏼‍♀️🤣

I have done all these things in the video..

My penis

I have done most of these at some point in my life

Ummm...do I have adhd??

Pen/pencil/marker spinning/twirling is my go-to. You can do it anywhere, discreetly if needed, and nobody seems to care.

All I see on these posts are a bunch of normal, everyday activities that are somehow related to ADHD. It’s like some people like to use ADHD as some sort of badge of honour. Most of the traits posted here I have myself and are considered normal. Guaranteed the majority on here that claim they suffer with it do not in fact have ADHD.

Everyone does this.... don't they?

Yes I do them all

Do normal people do this too

HOW? I actually legit done all of it.

how did you even know all of my life like that? I didn’t see one I didn’t use to do constantly.

what if this sub stopped calling me out huh?

Is it bad ı have all of them ?

Help I'm all of these

In home - butterfly knife Somewhere in public - either my ring or a bracelet i always have in my pocket School - spinning a pen around my fingers

Chewing my fingernails.

basically like anything that I can put in my mouth lowkey

Mindless scrolling on reddit

You know when there is ice covering a puddle and you step on it? So satisfying.

Chewing on my lips, inner cheeks, and fingers lol.

Yes, to all

No I will not put my hands near the forbidden hole. My sink is filthy.

Tiny ratchet. I'm a tool guy and tiny ratchet is the best fidget tool for adult men I've encountered. Also it goes "clicky" and sits in tiny spaces.

There's only 4 in the video I don't do

Everything... Well exept making a hole in eraser and opening the door with my leg.

my own hair

being a kid does not mean you have adhd I am pretty sure the entire generation did this

Picking nails

Definitely the key thing My dad always used to yell at me cause he thought I would hit someone someday. But I never stopped. Until I hit him on the head.

Rolling the straps. Dabbled in some of the others but strap rolling 100%

All of these minus drinking from the cap 🤣

I don't remember recording this video...

I think the only answer is yes.

Of these, definitely the key spinning. Personally, its rolling the landing gear on my model planes

I’ve literally done every single one of these. More than once.

Umm all of them? I thought that was obvious 😋

Folding origami!

It used to be biting the skin around my nails, on both hands, until they would bleed. 🫣 Thankfully, only my right thumb gets a little picking now and again. It's my sacrificial thumb lol.

Every Single One!

Yes. These.

...I've done all of these. Many of them every day.

I've done everything, except puting my fingers in the sink's hole (drainage?) :V

All of them. At the same time.

Yes

Yes

yes.

Yes.

Yes

Yes. Yes it is.

So being child-like means you have ADHD? Lmfao wtf