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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
Care to share what the weirdest one was, because that was weird as hell.
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.
*Bouncing intensifies*
As a leg bouncer I have very little control over this.
The second my brain stops looking my leg is going to restart.
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.
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 just put my piano fingers in my pockets while I’m walking around. I think it looks sophisticated.
I’ll do it for like a few seconds and stop because I’m irritating myself lol
Major mood
I work in a tiny office right next to my manager who leg bounces, hand flaps, is heavy-handed on his keyboard, and externalises his thoughts all the time. But when ever I leg bounce he’ll let me know how distracting it is.
I’m so close to a HR incident I swear to god.
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.
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
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.
With the foot on the gas pedal?
Haha, no. But that’s a hilarious to think about.
Tried it, my car just ignores it
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.
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.
No science but do you do regular sport?
Don’t and never have done regular sport and I’m pretty bad for it. I think it’s just restlessness or helping blood flow.
Huh… not science on my part either but i played waterpolo for 6 years 7 times a week and this is basically the most fundamental technique of the sport.
