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
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
I just put my piano fingers in my pockets while I’m walking around. I think it looks sophisticated.
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.
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.
There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.
I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.
I do that in the car. Whenever I was going somewhere with my ex, they’d always tell me to stop, lol.
I see why they’re your ex
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.
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.
One of my best friends in the world bounces his leg often. He’s a bigger guy and it can definitely get annoying. I try to just let it go unless we’re sitting at a table and he’s shaking it too, then I will gently reach over and touch his knee to let him know. He immediately apologizes and stops, and I feel bad for having to say something, but I draw the line at shaking the table lol. If he’s sitting across the room from me he can bounce to his heart’s content.
You shouldn’t feel bad for making a reasonable request considering the compromise of letting him do it most of the time without saying a word.
Is it ideal for him? No. Is it ideal for you? Also no.
Non-native here. For a good half a minute I couldn’t wrap my head around legs having to do anything with “door guards”.
One of my kind colleagues asked another - “What are you sewing?”. It was both unoffensive and funny enough to get them to stop.
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.
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.
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It’s a symptom of PaD you might be subconsciously maintaining blood flow with the leg shaky shakes.
