Hello. I'm new in these forums.

I'd like to know if I should worry by the fact that I daydream a lot (which has me helped to achieve positive goals, but I believe it might be a problem too), and also that when I'm excited about the subject I'm daydreaming about, I've tendency to hand flapping.

I've seen at YouTube videos of children with autism who are flapping hands while watching TV, like if they were very excited about what they're watching or imagining.

I flap hands very similar to them, with the difference that I'm not a child, but a 30 yo.

Also, it's voluntary... hand flapping is like an optional resource I can use for enjoying some of my daydreaming more. But I can choose not to do it, although I've some sort of "internal desire" to do it. Because hand flapping is not "normal behaviour", I close in some room when I wish to do it.

I've checked the symptoms lists of several illnesses that are related to hand flapping, but I don't match any of the symptoms: just hand flapping and a lot of daydreaming.

My social skills are good. I didn't have any learning disability as a child. I always got great marks in my childhood at school.

So, I believe I don't match any of the symptoms of autism, except hand flapping.

I believe there's a genetic component in whatever this symptom means: My father closes his fists and rubs his eyes with his closed fists when he's very excited about what he's watching on TV (he doesn't daydream, though, as far as I know).

My father has not been diagnosed about this symptom either, as far as I know, and he has normal social skills too.

Thank you in advance for any suggestion!!