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Misokinesia - 1 in 3 may have "hatred of movements"

I'm happy when people fidget. It means they're getting happier. But what I don't like is when people are moving all over the place and not keeping still. I have had my autism triggered while teaching a very disabled ADHD kindergartener in a scout troop. She literally could not sit still. She was constantly climbing on shelving and on people, pulling on and pushing everything around her. Poor girl. I would sometimes have to walk out of the room and leave the assistant in there, just to get a few breaths, so I could go back to the children and continue with the lesson.
 
I have this for certain stims. I'm very sound-sensitive so I can pass out or get panic attacks if for example people make loud noises with hands unexpectedly without being warned like snapping due to a few nightmares I had. I'm dizzy all the time so any extra movement near me can make me feel like I'm going to faint-of course no offense meant, I'm just extremely sensitive and I can't seem to figure out why. I'll just cover my ears or look in another direction though, I don't like being rude.
 
@Bibliophile715 , No offese taken.

That sounds really difficult. Have you ever had a neurological evalutation for your dizziness issue?
It almost sounds like when a sailor returns to land they can feel dizzy and discombobulated being on land. We call it "land sick".
 
@Suzette

They refuse to evaluate me on a tilt table due to how easily I can throw up when nauseous (since I always am) so it's just called syncope and a condition called P.O.T.S. has been suggested. I'm extra sensitive to medicine since the majority of what they have given me has given me side effects before. I'm motion-sick even when in bed and that's part of the reason why I have such difficulty sleeping because it can feel like I'm on a boat. I was on one once a while ago and it did make me sick but I didn't faint until for years after that. At the time when I first did even though there was no one around me my backpack was mysteriously moved (it was really heavy) over a foot away-the place was a really open area around my school with no one in it and there wasn't anyone I could see so it confounded any law enforcement. Sometimes when I'm walking it can get to the point where I feel like I'm walking on an upside down floor especially recently. Though I'm accustomed to handling it so it's not that hard.
 
I fidget more if l am agitated. But other people can fidget as long as they don't poke my eyes out with hand movements.
 
Seeing movement doesn't bother me. FEELING movement is a whole other matter.

I've taken to pulling the tables in the work cafeteria apart about an inch because if someone at the other end of the 15' long group of tables touches the table a lot while eating, I will fly into meltdown. I rarely share a table with others. Some tables just transmit vibration extremely well and the tables at work are a great example of this. I can tell someone's phone is ringing (if it's on vibrate) at the other end of the table.
 
I think that if people are bothered by my swimming that is their problem.
A teacher and my mum used to get cross at my nail biting, - what has it got to do with them?
My mum bit her nails.
A teacher got cross as I couldn't sit still - what's it got to do with her? She should just be bothered about my school work and sticking to school rules.
 
I am only bothered by movement because I have a “T-rex brain,” any movement I see in otherwise fairly still or constant conditions instantly grabs my attention whether I want it to or not, and I can’t “tune it out.” Just like I’m bothered by noises, but only because they hurt my ears and/or I can’t tune them out. Had to explain to my therapist last week that when I said I didn’t have misophonia, that just meant that there aren’t sounds that make me irrationally angry, not that I never mind any noise:rolleyes: But that’s a whole nother topic.


*I did not intend any insult with “irrational,” it just occurred to me that it might seem that way. Only meant “otherwise unexplainable.” Plenty of things irrational regarding me as well:p
 
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Seems like half of the people in my high school had this. My pacing around made lot of them nervous. Then teachers would wonder why I was always sleeping in class. I needed movement. In a way I was discriminated against.
 
Kit said:
Seems like half of the people in my high school had this. My pacing around made lot of them nervous. Then teachers would wonder why I was always sleeping in class. I needed movement. In a way I was discriminated against.
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Neurotypical society seems to think that any behavior that reads as "anxious" (such as pacing) is a sign that you're up to something nefarious. :rolleyes: (Not all NTs think that way, but quite a lot of them do, and there have been enough "expert" opinions written about it that many take it as fact.)
 
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