I'm a little late to the party but as always: thanks for sharing! 😁
Personally, I don't feel the urge to grab something and play around with it, although enjoying it. Yet, I have a severe issue of nail biting. But then, I also suffer from mild dermatitis resulting in constant itching of my skin (which actually might be linked to ADHD due to the relationship between serotonin, and dopamine on skin health according to some studies).
I feel like I did a lot of these things in my childhood. I remember being particularly addicted to the soft ends of pillows which I would use to tickle my face way into my teens. ^^ I also believe to have bitten my pencils a lot (or sometimes my arms). Apart from tilting with the chair, disturbing the lessons and getting disspelled from the classroom regularly. 🫣 But biting and scratching would probably top everything else.
Just noticed I picked my skin while writing this. I tend to do it more often in front of screens in breaks when I consider what to write next. Should I have a fidget toy in sight and arm's reach to redirect my (nervous) energy here? 🤔
Have you always played with fidget toys and just kept on doing so in your adulthood, or were they're different phases in your life? Did you sometimes introduce a particular fidget toy to tackle a particular issue such as nail biting, pulling your skin/hair etc.?
Thank YOU for commenting here, and also sharing such personal insights! 🙏
Well I cannot tell you if you should have a fidget toy in arm's reach, but from what you shared here, it sounds a lot like, that there is a need for some kind of fidget tool. Whatever that may be.
There is literally no limits (besides some obvious inhumane ones, lol) to what counts as a fidget tool.
I started using fidget tools consciously just since a few years now. But I remember that I used to play around with my erasers till the point of them falling in many tiny pieces, my pencils looked chewed up and I picked on anything rubber like on my pens or pencil-cases. Most of my books and notebooks looked like a war zone. Scribbled over, pages torn or holes created from going over the paper with ink erasers.
My system is very young, but the fidget rings or the massage (anti-stress) ball are quite effective. However, its not a fool-proof system. I end up biting my nails anyways sometimes. Because the stress still flows somewhere else. As long as I have enough control over it, fidget tools support me ever since I started using them more targeted. Keeping the hands busy has become a key factor for me, to avoid picking and biting. Yet to counter this more in depth it might need more than fidget tools, to reduce stress.
Love this post! Thanks for sharing! We have them all except the anti stress cube. That cube has the opposite effect on me. It’s one of very few things that can really aggravate me 🤣 and I guess it always will as it’s not something I feel I need to resolve 😅
Thank you sooo much! This means a lot to me, when I reach people with my work! Of course not all of these tools work for everyone the same way. There are always those itching the right spot and those you don't. Do you have some other tools I didn't mention in my post? Curious to discover more I don't know yet! 😁
I love this list! I'm autistic and ADHD and love to click pens! I recently broke my stylus to my phone because it's end was clickable. 🤦♀️ So now I keep a cheap clickable pen next to me instead. Definitely restacking this post! And, you've given me some gift ideas for my grandsons with ADHD. One of them likes to grab some Play-Doh and squeeze it around in his hand.
Omg thank you for sharing your experience and the post too.🤩 I just realized I did my typical ADHD thing, reading and liking your comment and answering in my mind, to then forget to actually answer 🙈
It's wonderful that my post gave you some gift ideas! I'm curious if you managed to find some of the tools and if they fulfilled their purpose ^^
Haha Play-Doh is definitely like those elastic stress balls. I never liked it because of the smell, that also sticks to my hands. I rarely find something without smell. But never really thought about Play-Doh, very interesting. Thanks for sharing! 🤗
I'm a little late to the party but as always: thanks for sharing! 😁
Personally, I don't feel the urge to grab something and play around with it, although enjoying it. Yet, I have a severe issue of nail biting. But then, I also suffer from mild dermatitis resulting in constant itching of my skin (which actually might be linked to ADHD due to the relationship between serotonin, and dopamine on skin health according to some studies).
I feel like I did a lot of these things in my childhood. I remember being particularly addicted to the soft ends of pillows which I would use to tickle my face way into my teens. ^^ I also believe to have bitten my pencils a lot (or sometimes my arms). Apart from tilting with the chair, disturbing the lessons and getting disspelled from the classroom regularly. 🫣 But biting and scratching would probably top everything else.
Just noticed I picked my skin while writing this. I tend to do it more often in front of screens in breaks when I consider what to write next. Should I have a fidget toy in sight and arm's reach to redirect my (nervous) energy here? 🤔
Have you always played with fidget toys and just kept on doing so in your adulthood, or were they're different phases in your life? Did you sometimes introduce a particular fidget toy to tackle a particular issue such as nail biting, pulling your skin/hair etc.?
Thank YOU for commenting here, and also sharing such personal insights! 🙏
Well I cannot tell you if you should have a fidget toy in arm's reach, but from what you shared here, it sounds a lot like, that there is a need for some kind of fidget tool. Whatever that may be.
There is literally no limits (besides some obvious inhumane ones, lol) to what counts as a fidget tool.
I started using fidget tools consciously just since a few years now. But I remember that I used to play around with my erasers till the point of them falling in many tiny pieces, my pencils looked chewed up and I picked on anything rubber like on my pens or pencil-cases. Most of my books and notebooks looked like a war zone. Scribbled over, pages torn or holes created from going over the paper with ink erasers.
My system is very young, but the fidget rings or the massage (anti-stress) ball are quite effective. However, its not a fool-proof system. I end up biting my nails anyways sometimes. Because the stress still flows somewhere else. As long as I have enough control over it, fidget tools support me ever since I started using them more targeted. Keeping the hands busy has become a key factor for me, to avoid picking and biting. Yet to counter this more in depth it might need more than fidget tools, to reduce stress.
Love this post! Thanks for sharing! We have them all except the anti stress cube. That cube has the opposite effect on me. It’s one of very few things that can really aggravate me 🤣 and I guess it always will as it’s not something I feel I need to resolve 😅
Thank you sooo much! This means a lot to me, when I reach people with my work! Of course not all of these tools work for everyone the same way. There are always those itching the right spot and those you don't. Do you have some other tools I didn't mention in my post? Curious to discover more I don't know yet! 😁
I love this list! I'm autistic and ADHD and love to click pens! I recently broke my stylus to my phone because it's end was clickable. 🤦♀️ So now I keep a cheap clickable pen next to me instead. Definitely restacking this post! And, you've given me some gift ideas for my grandsons with ADHD. One of them likes to grab some Play-Doh and squeeze it around in his hand.
Omg thank you for sharing your experience and the post too.🤩 I just realized I did my typical ADHD thing, reading and liking your comment and answering in my mind, to then forget to actually answer 🙈
It's wonderful that my post gave you some gift ideas! I'm curious if you managed to find some of the tools and if they fulfilled their purpose ^^
Haha Play-Doh is definitely like those elastic stress balls. I never liked it because of the smell, that also sticks to my hands. I rarely find something without smell. But never really thought about Play-Doh, very interesting. Thanks for sharing! 🤗