What Is Twiddlooding and Why Do We Love Tactile Activities?

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The discussion centers around the habit of twiddling, where participants express a compulsion to fiddle with tactile objects like elastic bands, pebbles, scissors, and nail clippers. Many participants share experiences of needing to keep their hands busy while engaging in other activities, leading to a tendency to manipulate nearby items, including food and paper. The conversation also explores the connection between doodling and twiddling, with some suggesting that both activities serve a similar purpose in keeping hands occupied and aiding concentration. The term "twiddlooding" is humorously introduced to describe the simultaneous act of doodling while twiddling.
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Do you like to twiddle? i can not pass an elastic band without picking it up and twiddling it, or a pebble, any thing that is tactile.
 
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"busy hands..."
 
Bubble wrap.
 
I play with scissors.
 
I fiddle with anything and everything that's nearby while I'm doing something. I used to fiddle with nail clippers all the time, I kept dropping them on my computer, and my old laptop has a lot of little nicks from it
 
Gale said:
I play with scissors.


Errrr gulp.
 
NeoDevin said:
I fiddle with anything and everything that's nearby while I'm doing something. I used to fiddle with nail clippers all the time, I kept dropping them on my computer, and my old laptop has a lot of little nicks from it

I like nail clippers too. And tweezers. I like to cut things into little pieces, then pick them up, and pile them into little sculptures.

I also make things with food.
 
I'm the same, hands constantly moving looking for something to do. Any bits of paper nearby live in danger of being torn, twisted and folded into new shapes. Also, I find it difficult to think without a pen and paper to hand for random doodling.
Are doodling and twiddling related ?
 
kmbrow said:
I'm the same, hands constantly moving looking for something to do. Any bits of paper nearby live in danger of being torn, twisted and folded into new shapes. Also, I find it difficult to think without a pen and paper to hand for random doodling.
Are doodling and twiddling related ?

Do you doodle while you twiddle?


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Are doodling and twiddling related ?

add: only by hand shaking
 
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rewebster said:
Do you doodle while you twiddle?


Thats twiddlooding.
 
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