Writer's Block: Less Than Idle Hands

[i_amthecosmos]

[Error: unknown template qotd]I rock back and forth. I do it in public, even. Half the time I'm not even aware. My husband called me on it in front of his mom and I just said, half-embarressed, "It's just an old leftover coping skill from my depressed days." And it is. Now I do it when absorbed, excited, lost in thought. It's harmless, but it looks bad to other people. I stop if I realize I'm doing it in public. In private, who cares?

Comments

[whisperingtome.livejournal.com]

I do that too! I'm never aware that I've started rocking until someone mentions it. Like you say, I think it's a comfort/coping thing as I only do it when I'm feeling stressed.

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'll not really notice. I do it when reading, when I'm writing a story, when I'm telling a story. It's a symptom of interest and absorbion for me.

Some people on a thread for autism/Aspberger's people were mentioning the rocking, and a lot of us that didn't have those types of social disorders were like "Oh, I do that too." Someone said it helps regulate the nervous system.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_mydecember_/]

I do that too. I mostly do it while reading or when lost in thought.

[sic-gurrl.livejournal.com]

Hm. That's an interesting one! I do something like that when I'm sitting Indian style. It's not a nervous habit so much for me but just a plain ole habit. :/

[poofusgirl.livejournal.com]

I do it too and it takes me a bit to notice I'm even doing it. I would do it a lot too when I used to get high. Like my favorite thing to do while high was laugh and rock back and forth. lol

[i-amthecosmos.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's a cute image.

[poofusgirl.livejournal.com]

It's even weirder when I'm not the only one doing it. Once, after probably 10 minutes or so of rocking, my friend and I realized that when I would rock forward she was going back and vice versa. We didn't even realized we'd both started rocking or the way we were doing it. I was an odd stoner. lol