KuromiGirl04What is your favorite kind of fidget toy/stim toy?
renegadesporkI rarely end up using actual fidgets because I always forget them… so I usually just fidget whatever object is within reach at a given time.
If you can, put them on your keychain! 🔑
High bar. -_-‘
Every damn time. I did just find a bunch of mine that my husband put into a box, one ADHD person and one near-obsessive cleaner makes for a fun mix in our house 😅
Vengefu1 TunaI have those too! They’re fantastic!
Twinklebreeze I really like using a Rubik’s cube.
lime!i’ve tried finding one i like for a while now, ever since i got a 3d-printer… i feel like i need something with more heft to it. weirdly the thing that has worked best so far was a cylindrical pill box which opens with a spiral motion. flicking the top makes it spin all the way open and it’s smooth enough to close on its own.
Whatever trash I accidentally left on my desk. When that isn’t around, I tend to grab my phone.
Seriously. I trim mine close, but any tiny bits that are slightly longer or shorter become my stim until the next time I trim.
That and running my tongue above the inside of my teeth, or fingertips along my thumb.
I am not sure I could pick a favorite but here is my desk’s current fidget toy box hah! If I had to it’s probably the fidget cube or whatever is in my pocket. Also, I’m going to need to know more about this floppy chain most importantly where do I get one 😄
Well, i got my flippy chain from Amazon.
If you search “bike chain fidget” or “flippy chain fidget”, you should be able to find some 😊
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CoelacanthI feel you. I’m glad I quit and all, but I still miss smoking more days than not. You described it absolutely perfectly. Also you can watch the ember glow, flick the ash, turn the cigarette around in your hand…
Plus I’m one of those who really enjoyed the taste, too. Especially now that spring is coming I miss sitting outside in the warm sunlight with a coffee and a cigarette.
I feel you on taste. I tried baking once and the only flavor I liked could be best described as Liquid ashtray. I could stand the “coconut mango “ type flavors “
Tap for spoilerHave you ever tried smoking while taking a shit? That’s is the best cigarette. I don’t smoke inside anymore tho ruins the paint, the dog doesn’t like, also it gives the kids cancer. Sorry don’t want to portray smoking in too much of a positive light. It’s a deadly habit but it goes well with adhd. Except for the cancer.
I dated someone for whom that sadly was absolutely a dealbreaker alto it was far from the only one lol
Want to know something funny? I started smoking because a girl called me a boy. I was just a boy but I wanted to lie about being a man
Tap for spoilerThat’s where smoking came to my mind. I purposely became a smoker as an early to prove to a girl a was older: anyway the end of the story or she couldn’t stand cigarette smoke. So we broke up. “Goodbye taja. By the way your view in ancient Egyptian is really wrong. Your tattoo ideas are as cringe as me starting smoking She was cute though
I dont have tat ideas besides i would never get one lol. Whered u get that
Lmao i grouped it under me
MinnesotaGoddamand also are forced to enter a cancer lotto every day.
don’t tell me that on days like today
oh, my meaning is not the usual one. it’s more “Cancer? Where? Gimme!” it’s been a month.
camelwizeYeah been an on/off problem of mine for half my life now, something about both the nicotine and the ritual. I haven’t really found anything to replace it with, chewing gum kinda does it a little bit but it’s not quite the same.
I used to take my glasses cleaning cloth and roll it up like if I was rolling a cigarette, that’s another one that relaxed me but I haven’t done it in forever.
I recently got a hard plastic smush toy i really enjoy
I also really enjoy the classic 3 lobed spinner fidgets. My longest enjoyed fidget is a bit smaller than a switch joycon and has a bunch of buttons and switches on it. I often have it in my pocket at work as i can easily fiddle with it quietly with 1 hand while speaking with someone
SubArcticTundraI’m afraid I’d try to eat that by accident. It just looks so appetising
thesingingsea [she/her]I have a set of plastic playing cards that I love
They make it easy to do a faro shuffle, it’s sooo satisfying
Tess
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Ooh, that’s neat and simple.
I’ve seen various fidget cubes that have 6 different tactile things on them, and the one I want most is so hard to find… It was 5 different kinds of toggle switches and a mechanical keyboard key. I want it so bad.
My guitar has these too
Guitar
Exactly. Been trying to tell people this.
I’m a drummer, so mine is usually just finger-drumming to whatever is stuck in my head at the moment. But when I do use an object, spinning a pencil/pen or bic lighter around the thumb will keep me busy for hours
FilthyShroomsI have a metal mini slinky that I love to fiddle with, it’s definitely the best fidget toy I have
Oooh I want one 🤩
Rubik’s cube was my favourite for a few years when I was commuting by train. I had a 40-60 minute trip each way for work and it was an amazing way of killing time without going mad.
Then podcasts and audio books came in and honestly, I can manage sitting still with audio playing. I need it to be stimulating enough, but running everything at 2x speed is fantastic and really makes a huge difference.
That said, I also have a notepad and pen so I can write things down while sitting, so I plan projects and write questions to be answered later. That helps a lot. I also have my phone which is great for passing time, Offline Games is a fantastic set of games that dont require purchases or ads. I also have my first aid kit on my belt and I regularly go through it and make sure all is well, along with my tech pouch. Organising those and cleaning them out works well.
For ad free games I can highly reccomend Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection. It’s been ported to most every platform under the sun but I mainly use the android port.
Yes, they are fantastic. They do have a little bit of a Windows 95 aesthetic but I kind of like that.
OP, I had a floppy chain like yours, but I fidgeted too hard and broke it 😂 I liked to try to squeeze my finger in between the rubber bands and over time it didn’t like me doing that lol
My favorite is my Ono Roller. It’s metal and has a delightful weight to it. I got the youth size for my small hands lol. I like that it’s completely silent and occupies my entire hand
I also like the Nee Doh squishies. My mini cube is my 2nd favorite fidget at the moment. The ones filled with gel are superior to the ones with white goo. The ones with more varied shape (mushroom/animal) are more likely to make fart noises when squished. (I also have to resist fidgeting too aggressively and breaking these lol. One night the intrusive thoughts won and I was biting a cube while stretching it. It was a really good bite feel, but a bunch of air got in the cube and solidified the goo and now it’s extremely hard and won’t squish unless you sit on it and warm it up for half an hour first lmao 😂)
Ooh, that flipoy chain looks fun. I’m going to have to get one of those.
My favoritrs are a nice heavy metal 3 prong fidget spinner I got bacj when that craze first started. This bike chain gear sprocket one - not sure how else to describe it, but it’s two gears, one bigger than the other, and a bike chain going around them. It’s neat.
But my real favorite? My absolute love it to death favorite? Some Stimagz. They are little magnet rods and they are infinitely amazing. I do not use them anymore and it honestly took a while to break the habit. Why don’t I use them anymore? I swear I started to develop hand pain. It’s like I was on track to give myself carpel tunnel. My right hand was starting to get stiff and painful and I couldn’t figure out why, and I realized it started happening about a month after I got my Stimagz. I had them in my pocket 24/7 and no matter what, when, or where, I was fidgeting with them. I put them away in a drawer and stop using them, and bam, hand pain cleared up. They were like fidget heroin. I wish I could trust myself around them, but I know I would just get carried away. The safest way for me to use them is to not use them at all.
ZozanoA dog clicker they gave me at my dogs training course a few years ago. It’s louder than any clicky pen. So satisfying!
nightspawnWithout thinking, I pick at the skin around my fingernails. Sigh. But when I do reach for a fidget, I have a spinner and one of those Needoh gumdrops that is satisfyingly squishy.
Alejandro_P@Strider @nightspawn so true. Just the other day without realizing I was bleeding a little from my finger, exactly because of this
Exactly. I have to carry nail clippers all the time to try and keep myself from picking to the bleeding point.
ApyteleRubik’s cube. It’s an algorithm you can memorize over the course of about a week at which point it’s mostly muscle memory but it holds attention a little better than a fidget spinner.
M1k3yWhat are your typical fidgeting algs? Mine are:
- R U R’ U’
- M E’ (holding the cube diagonally)
- U R’ F R
- U-perm Other than U-perm, theses are just random moves that feel nice and cycle relatively quickly. Ive forgotten many of the PLLs, but I remember that some of them felt really satisfying
I like wearable fidget toys. I have an enamel pin of centrifuge tubes, which actually spins^[1]
I also have a couple of cool interactive pins from AtelierEumori (currently on break). I have this social battery pin and this TTRPG dice pin
There’s a couple of rings that I have long been coveting, such as this one, this one, or this one^[2]. I don’t own any of these, because they’re super expensive, but they’ve inspired me to learn how to make stuff like this — I’ve been learning how to use a jeweller’s lathe.
I like wearable stuff because otherwise I will forget them or lose then. I do have some begleri, which are as much as a skill toy as a fidget toy. This aspect of skill is why I like them — I like the feeling of practicing stuff. For this reason, a standard deck of cards is also something I like to fiddle with. Unfortunately, I tend to forget to take them with me, so I’m not actually very good at this stuff.
[1]: From dorbitalgames, but out of stock
moondoggieI have a small, pocket-sized fountain pen. In meetings I can take “notes” (draw), then spin the cap on and off. Some of the other people below mentioned smoking and it’s good for that too. I just say “sorry, I need a smoke” as I put the pen in my mouth. Nobody bothers me and nobody asks for a light. Worked a lot better before vaping was a thing though.