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Fidget Toy recommendations? (things to stim with)

I’ve been looking at this a while. Probably going to get one .
I have heard that the Jr. ones are too small unless you have very small hands. I bought the aluminum ones, but you can get different metals. The main complaint I have heard is that the plastic that holds them together can break. I have not had that issue, but I have been careful with them. Hope they work for you.
 
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For many years before I had ever heard of a fidget spinner, I would bend the pocket clips on the caps of my employer's ballpoint pens and use the bent clip to spin the pen at lightning speed, repeatedly, alternating directions. At least it's silent.

If we had clicky ballpoint pens instead, I would click them and click them click them and click them until I drove everyone in my office mad.

At home, it was the VCR remote's battery cover, which made a satisfying clicky noise until it broke from wear and tear.

Also, my wife just told me this month that when we first married, years and years ago, I used to click the computer's mouse buttons over and over and over, and that it used to drive her crazy.

There's also my own leg, bouncing it rapidly (which drives my daughter crazy).

And also, liked to spin my key ring around on my finger as quickly as I could.

And I had no idea that I could possibly be on the spectrum.
 
I keep it in my car, in the footwear, and it extends to the back seat of the car as its 160cm long.

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This cassette tape and case are always on my desk for use as stim toys. I like the feel of the plastic and also the clacking sounds they make as well. I find myself flipping them around vertically and horizontally with my fingers. Sometimes with both hands, sometimes one handed. Sometimes cassette in case, sometimes cassette on its own.

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I had some compulsive-like tendencies I abandoned, because I felt like my faith was telling me very emphatically that they were unhealthy. I don't know whether that's the same thing. It felt like it was a lot of staring into the abyss, really, so it might not even be the same thing.
 
I keep everything tied together (so I don't lose it as soon as I turn around: loops, mini flashlight, and stim), plus I have my emergency bag.
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Komboloi. I always have one within reach. (In retrospect, I wonder why I received so many as gifts…)
 
Yes, that’s one. One of my current favourites looks like this:

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Small enough to always have in my pocket, and very tactile.
 
Do you use fidget toys in public though?
I always got in trouble when I clicked my own pen in the classroom. Or around any other people really 😆
 
Yes, I always have a komboloi with me, and will use it when I need it (even when playing lawn bowls.) I tend to use it in the “quiet” fashion, not the flashy, noisy, flick-over-the-hand way. If I am in a quiet place, I may become self-conscious about the clicking sound of the beads dropping (an advantage of the one shown above, as it is very quiet. I have other, more traditional ones that have a pronounced “click”. For me that is soothing, for others, maybe not so much.)
 
My most favorite stim toy is my wheelchair. I can spin round and round or do figure 8s. It's odd though. Every time I make a swirl in one direction, I go back and do the same but the opposite. So it'll be sort of like my wheels are tracing out flower petal designs. Something about weaving different roundy roundy patterns regulates my emotions. I feel calmer when I'm afraid.

One time, I was waiting for pizza outside a restaurant with my brother. I was kind of bored, in an adhd impatient way. And a little nervous. It was so funny, I didn't even realize I was stimming with my wheelchair. My brother goes, "Hey Sis! Quit using your wheelchair like a fidget spinner!" So funny! I stopped and kinda woke up realized I had zoned out and was using my chair as a giant stim toy. I laugh every single time I recall it.
 
My most favorite stim toy is my wheelchair. I can spin round and round or do figure 8s. It's odd though. Every time I make a swirl in one direction, I go back and do the same but the opposite. So it'll be sort of like my wheels are tracing out flower petal designs. Something about weaving different roundy roundy patterns regulates my emotions. I feel calmer when I'm afraid.

One time, I was waiting for pizza outside a restaurant with my brother. I was kind of bored, in an adhd impatient way. And a little nervous. It was so funny, I didn't even realize I was stimming with my wheelchair. My brother goes, "Hey Sis! Quit using your wheelchair like a fidget spinner!" So funny! I stopped and kinda woke up realized I had zoned out and was using my chair as a giant stim toy. I laugh every single time I recall it.
I have a Triride (front attachment) and like to go round in circles fast
 

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