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Does anybody else pace around in circles?

anthoskate

anthoskate

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There is a table in the middle of my kitchen and I sometimes find myself walking around it while I am thinking about stuff. I don't even realize that I am doing it.

I'm just wondering if anybody else does this or something similar and how does it make you feel. I feel very happy while I am doing it.

I'm just glad that knowbody has ever seen me doing this because I sometimes talk to myself while I am walking around in circles, and I would probably freak out if I saw somebody else doing that.
 
One thing that's consistent about my stims is that I do them without even noticing...whether pacing or rocking back and forth. Nowadays I chuckle to myself when I catch myself doing it. :p

I pace back and forth.....just like a judge.
 
Yeah, I do that also but very rarely. I thought it had something to do with hyperactivity.

Do you like going in circles? Like when you're driving for example?
 
Oddly enough, I only like the feeling when I am zoned out. When I'm driving and I miss a turn in a roundabout it makes me a little sick and disorientated.
 
Yeah, I do it all the time.
Another thing I do is apparently 'dance around' when I'm listening to music through my headphones.
 
Yes, I pace a lot. I do it a lot when I'm anxious, too. I often feel the urge to get up from my desk, pace and sit down again. I often run from one side of the room to the other rather than pace.
 
I pace a lot. Which leads to walking in circles or the same pattern over and over. I do it while thinking, anxious, or waiting on people. Cause I can't wait patiently. And then if they are late, I go into extreme pace mode with some of my hand motion stims.
 
Yep, and I've done it pretty much all my life. :)

It tends to happen when I start daydreaming, and my daydreams are usually awesome scenes I've seen in movies or games I've played. :p
And I daydream about that stuff quite a lot. I suppose that's why, when I go to english class, and it's time to write up a story, I've never needed much time to think of a story to write, since so many ideas flood my brains pretty much all the time. :p So there's a good thing that comes out of my pacing/daydreaming I suppose. :)
 
Yes, I pace, both back and forth and in circles. When I pace in circles, it's usually counter-clockwise. I'm not too sure why, but it's something that I recently noticed.
 
It's amazing how much better pacing makes me feel! I favor the figure 8/infinity pattern of pacing. I do this when I am excited/happy or very anxious. Whee!
 
Progster said:
Yes, I pace a lot. I do it a lot when I'm anxious, too. I often feel the urge to get up from my desk, pace and sit down again. I often run from one side of the room to the other rather than pace.
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I pace/dash from end to end in a room, usually to music. I've been told that's about hyperactivity, not aspiedom. I noticed that when I took meds for hyperactivity, the behavior is a lot less frequent, and less intense even when it happens.
 
ExplosiveTMT said:
Yep, and I've done it pretty much all my life. :)

It tends to happen when I start daydreaming, and my daydreams are usually awesome scenes I've seen in movies or games I've played. :p
And I daydream about that stuff quite a lot. I suppose that's why, when I go to english class, and it's time to write up a story, I've never needed much time to think of a story to write, since so many ideas flood my brains pretty much all the time. :p So there's a good thing that comes out of my pacing/daydreaming I suppose. :)
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That sounds really cool :). I would be there 4 hours without having anything written down because of my bad imagination (I don't think that it's bad, It just doesn't know where to start).
 
ASD_Geek said:
Yes, I pace, both back and forth and in circles. When I pace in circles, it's usually counter-clockwise. I'm not too sure why, but it's something that I recently noticed.
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I go both clockwise and counter-clockwise. I think that it depends where I am going in the first place.
 
I pace and giggle. Sometimes I even think the ends of my thoughts aloud. I try to suppress it because I don't want to do it somewhere important and get caught lol!
 
i pace around in icosikaienneagons. it is quite unnerving because i have to pay careful attention to not miss a turn.
 
I tend to sort of pace back and forth when I'm talking on the phone with people. Talking on the phone makes me nervous, so I think the pacing serves as an anxiety reliever for me.
 
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