Hand Flapping While Daydreaming Posted: 01-05-08 09:42am
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!!
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frankweb
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Posted: 01-05-08 11:20am
I've continued searching the internet, and
I'm really puzzled now, because I just
realized that I've at least two "autism
traits":
-I flap hands when daydreaming and excited
(although I can voluntarily avoid to do
it, for example when I'm not alone)
-I've tendency to "toe walking", also when
daydreaming and excited.
Am I autistic? This is big news. I never
had communication problems, nor attention
problems... I always had friends, and I've
been a good student.
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frankweb
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 3 Location: ,
Posted: 01-05-08 11:58am
Well, I just did an online autism spectrum
quotient available at http://aq.server8.org/ and my score
was 20, which is in the average range for
normal (non-autistic) people.
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Georgia59
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Posted: 01-07-08 15:48pm
These are tendencies of people with
autism. That doesn't mean that you are
autistic just because you have them! It
would take a bunch of other symptoms to
diagnose you with autism.
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