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Who needs fidget spinners? I have straws.

Nervous Rex

Nervous Rex

High-functioning autistic
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So I started doing this 2-3 years ago.

I got fast food one time and I kept the straw to fidget with, and I looked at it and thought, "What can you do with a straw?" After trying a few different things, I creased a straw twice, to make a squarish cylinder, and I accordion-folded it. I found I could make all sorts of shapes once I had an accordioned straw. The picture shows a few of them.

Now, any time I get a straw, I always keep it and accordion it. Sometimes I save up to make a big shape I've got planned. Sometimes I just throw them away because, once I accordion it, I'm done with it, and I need something else to fidget with.

I generally don't show people outside my family, because it probably looks really weird to do and I'm self-conscious about it. My son passed some out at school and they were in demand for about two weeks.

So, anyway, that's my show-and-tell.
 

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Wow, those are amazing indeed! Rather than a fidget spinner, I use magnets and either click them together or hold them at reversed polarity to feel the energy they create. Nothing as cool as what you are making, but they do the trick.
 
Major420 said:
Rather than a fidget spinner, I use magnets and either click them together or hold them at reversed polarity to feel the energy they create.
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I love magnets, too. I have about 1200 Buckyballs, small spherical magnets. Not for sale in the USA anymore, but I buy them through AliExpress. Definitely keep out of reach of all small children. I love making geometric sculptures out of them.

I also like the “Ball of Whacks”. It’s 30 wedge-shaped plastic pieces with magnets in them to let you connect them in different ways. I bought one and found a neat shape I could make with two. So I bought another one and found another shape that needed four ... and on and on and now I have 6 of them. If I talk about buying more, my daughter gives me a stern look and says, “DAA-aaaad, you can’t buy any more of those.”

I’ll never get tired of magnets.
 
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Oh my gosh. I do the same. If their a straw I just have to fiddle with it. When J was on holiday I had a huge house structure over the weeks of being there.
 
Major420 said:
Wow, those are amazing indeed! Rather than a fidget spinner, I use magnets and either click them together or hold them at reversed polarity to feel the energy they create. Nothing as cool as what you are making, but they do the trick.
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Did you ever have them magnetic stone things. They are so satisfying.
 
Pens! I never realised I was such a fidget until someone pointed it out a few yers ago, but I have to have a pen or something to play with during a meeting or I can't focus on what's being said.
 
Nervous Rex said:
So I started doing this 2-3 years ago.

I got fast food one time and I kept the straw to fidget with, and I looked at it and thought, "What can you do with a straw?" After trying a few different things, I creased a straw twice, to make a squarish cylinder, and I accordion-folded it. I found I could make all sorts of shapes once I had an accordioned straw. The picture shows a few of them.

Now, any time I get a straw, I always keep it and accordion it. Sometimes I save up to make a big shape I've got planned. Sometimes I just throw them away because, once I accordion it, I'm done with it, and I need something else to fidget with.

I generally don't show people outside my family, because it probably looks really weird to do and I'm self-conscious about it. My son passed some out at school and they were in demand for about two weeks.

So, anyway, that's my show-and-tell.
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Inventive
 
Nervous Rex said:
So I started doing this 2-3 years ago.

I got fast food one time and I kept the straw to fidget with, and I looked at it and thought, "What can you do with a straw?" After trying a few different things, I creased a straw twice, to make a squarish cylinder, and I accordion-folded it. I found I could make all sorts of shapes once I had an accordioned straw. The picture shows a few of them.

Now, any time I get a straw, I always keep it and accordion it. Sometimes I save up to make a big shape I've got planned. Sometimes I just throw them away because, once I accordion it, I'm done with it, and I need something else to fidget with.

I generally don't show people outside my family, because it probably looks really weird to do and I'm self-conscious about it. My son passed some out at school and they were in demand for about two weeks.

So, anyway, that's my show-and-tell.
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OMGOSH I love this. I use straws every day, so I have a TON around. I will try to make somethig and post. This is really creative.
 
This is for you, Rex, because I am now investigating :-)

 
It's beautiful! Sort of like origami with straws.

All I ever did with straws was chew on them (well, besides drinking from them).
 
Sometimes when I am deep in thought, I chew on a toothpick. I don't really even know what a fidget spinner is. I am over 40 so I guess a lot of the newfangled stuff passes over me.
 
Nervous Rex said:
So I started doing this 2-3 years ago.

I got fast food one time and I kept the straw to fidget with, and I looked at it and thought, "What can you do with a straw?" After trying a few different things, I creased a straw twice, to make a squarish cylinder, and I accordion-folded it. I found I could make all sorts of shapes once I had an accordioned straw. The picture shows a few of them.

Now, any time I get a straw, I always keep it and accordion it. Sometimes I save up to make a big shape I've got planned. Sometimes I just throw them away because, once I accordion it, I'm done with it, and I need something else to fidget with.

I generally don't show people outside my family, because it probably looks really weird to do and I'm self-conscious about it. My son passed some out at school and they were in demand for about two weeks.

So, anyway, that's my show-and-tell.
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only problem I have I wouldn't want to touch them !they look too delicate and I Break things !
 
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