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
it’s true,we’re trying to kill you
Just as I suspected!
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?
As a leg bouncer I have very little control over this.
The second my brain stops looking my leg is going to restart.
I’ve legit just started:
“Can you stop shaking your leg?”
“No.”
“Excuse me?”
“I’m literally physically unable to control it, so, no I can’t stop. Sorry.”
I’m not even trying to be funny or lying, just deadpan matter of fact truth: no, I cannot.
“Not easier than you can cope with it. No.”
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’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.
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
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.
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 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.
She needs to be transferred to basically any subject other than biology, seeing as she has clearly demonstrated her lack of knowledge on the subject.
Care to share what the weirdest one was, because that was weird as hell.
There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.
I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.
