"Rocking"

[Alicia Rodriguez]

I know that having MD you probably have some sort of repetitive movement that you do. Mine is HANDS DOWN rocking my head!! I've done it since I could remember. I remember being young and my parents thinking I was crazy and taking me to a doctor. I think I was so young that I didn't realize that I was daydreaming. "Rocking" my head also gets me to concentrate super well. In school I would rock my head at my desk and do schoolwork at the same time and never got dizzy. I was always super confident in myself and it wasn't until I hit that weird age at 11 when I became embarrassed of my head movements and made it a point to stop them in school. I can lock myself in a room for hours and do nothing but listen to music and rock my head to music. I feel that when I read others talking about their movements they aren't as bad as mine. To give everyone a good illustration: I sit usually cross legged,  fold my hands together, keep my eyes on a certain object (like a letter on a key) and move my head vigorously from side to side to the point where my hair is flying everywhere!! It looks absolutely insane but it's the best natural high EVER! I really have to be careful in public when I start to wander off that I don't accidentally start rocking. Does anyone have a similar movement to this that they would never want anyone to see?? I don't mind the daydreaming all day, it's just the looking crazy while I'm daydreaming that I hate!! LOL :)

[Badgery Fox]

Also I do love talking out loud. Where there never a chance to be alone I'd just go crazy not being able to express myself. Sometimes my boyfriend catches me doing that but he doesn't judge :)

[Badgery Fox]

I tend to rock back and forth a little when there is no chance of anyone seeing me. Unconciosly I  sometimes move my fingers very fast and kinda spastically when thinking very hard about stuff. That has always helped me do math problems though, and even now at university I do this when thinking hard.

Kime wrote that she paces her room --> doesn't everyone do that?? I never knew that this might be ankward to some. lol

[The1andonlyAbber]

I don't really have a repetitive movement I do WHILE daydreaming, but I noticed that for some reason I do repetitive movements like shaking my leg or my hand when I'm trying to decide which imaginary world to go in (I have a few), what I should do next if I have to make a tough decision on my daydream (in some of my daydreams I'm queen of an intergalactic empire, so that happens kind of a lot, LOL), or if I have to decide which new character to bring into my world between 2 characters.

[ashlee]

I dont rock my head, but I shake my lake, rub my legs, and lightly rock back and forth. not all at the same time LOL but i always do those movements. People always tell me to stop shaking my leg...in the car, in class...cause it shakes everything. I dont even notice i do it. B ut when i stop i feel really uncomfortable and have to move somehow...
i didnt even notice the leg rubbing thing till i started hanging out with this guy (ugh -.-) and he would point it out everytime (so i stopped hanging out with him). I brought it up to a friend and she said that I do do it all the time. oh.

idk

[Sandra]

My car is one of the few places I feel comfortable going to my world in. Several times, I have looked up at a light or in a parking space with someone looking at me with faces ranging from puzzlement to bewilderment. I usually play it off like I have a Bluetooth in. random people at lights have asked who I'm talking to. I usually pick up my phone and wave it at them. I wish I could be comfortable just don't my thing, too.

[Alicia Rodriguez]

@kim Yes I am able to concentrate sooo much better while rocking!

[Cordellia Amethyste Rose]

I'm really tired of people being called crazy for things like this.  Society needs to change.  It's really dumb to judge people like that.  I have Autism Spectrum Disorder, so when I tell people that, and they see me acting a little weird, they don't question it so much, at least not that I pick up, not that I could pick it up.  I don't have a particular movement that I do while daydreaming, except making facial expressions and sometimes mouthing words of conversations, but I do catch myself "stimming" (as they say when referring to what people with ASD do) sometimes.  I rock when I get a little anxious about things, which is common, and also when in new places.  For some reason, I have a need to touch my face and arms when at the doctor's office, for example.  Anyway, if you've found something that's harmless and helps you focus, power to you.  

[Kim e]

Wow I just tried that and I think I gave myself a headache! :)

I pace back and forth a lot, no one but my partner has ever seen me do this - and he thinks its the strangest thing ever! 

I think these movements allow us to concentrate more, at least it does for me. What do you think?