Here's a random subject. Does anyone pace when they are on the phone or really thinking about something? I have to turn the lights out in the house when I'm on the phone so the neighbors don't think I'm an idiot.

I do it all the time. As a kid , I literally wore a hole in the linoleum flooring between my room and the kitchen from pacing back and forth.

Me :D

You're going to feel like an idiot when you bump into random objects in the dark and hurt yourself.

Yes, I pace and wander aimlessly while on the phone. And if I'm really feeling focused, I sit down and doodle or do dishes. Just sitting in my rocking chair is asking for me to not hear a word the person's saying, too many interesting things to look at from there.

May I suggest you take up dishes or doodling? Your toes will thank you.

I do it all the time too, especially when I'm bored sh*tless....I've done it for as long as I can remember

Eyeforgot!

What exactly do you use your rocking chair for?????.....I know this sounds like a stupid question but do you have SID/SPD???

You're going to feel like an idiot when you bump into random objects in the dark and hurt yourself.

Yes, I pace and wander aimlessly while on the phone. And if I'm really feeling focused, I sit down and doodle or do dishes. Just sitting in my rocking chair is asking for me to not hear a word the person's saying, too many interesting things to look at from there.

May I suggest you take up dishes or doodling? Your toes will thank you.

OMG, I have paced for as long as I can remember! When I was a kid, especially if I was eating something, I would pace around in a circle really fast. I remember that it was somehow calming to me. And, now, like you said, when I'm on the phone I'll pace a lot. For example, I frequently will sit in the chair by the computer for a couple minutes, the move to the couch for a minute or so, then to the bedroom, and so on. I TRY to sit, but without thinking I always get up and go somewhere else. Or I just won't sit at all and just aimlessly wander from room to room, which often frustrates me because I live in a small apartment.

Oh well, my last accident involoved stubbing my toe on the foot of the bedframe and I ended up almost tearing off the nail of my big toe... ended up with a bacterial infection .... it was a mess.

I vote for rocking chair.

ME :D

Does anyone pace when they are on the phone ...

Yes.

....or really thinking about something?

Yes.

I have to turn the lights out in the house when I'm on the phone so the neighbors don't think I'm an idiot.

I normally keep the lights out. :D

I avoid using my phone at work because it has a cord on it. I need to be moving when on the phone.

LOL - I've memorized the path from the kitchen through the living room into the bedroom. So far no painful collisions! I actually calculated the distance of my normal pacing 'route'. If I do it 80 times, that's a mile! I'm such a geek.

LOL yes I'm a big pacer especially when I'm on the phone. I'm not a big phone talker. I don't like being forced to focus on one thing at a time, if I could talk to severeal people on the phone all at once maybe it would be different.

Anyway I'm wearing out my carpet I pace so often. I also run and slide in my socks across the kitchen floor while on the phone and sometimes make up fake karate moves to entertain myself. I've also tripped over the dogs multiple times since they find my pacing quite exciting.

Usually they'll be a pause in the conversation where my friend will ask "What are you doing?" after hearing the commotion or noticing I'm short of breath. LOL

Eyeforgot!

What exactly do you use your rocking chair for?????.....I know this sounds like a stupid question but do you have SID/SPD???
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I sit and rock in it? :p Sorry. Not trying to be a PITB, but it's in my living room and I bought it for nursing my babies and I love to rock and rock and rock. And I don't know what SID/SPD is, but another co-existing condition would not surprise me.

What makes you ask?

Here's a random subject. Does anyone pace when they are on the phone or really thinking about something? I have to turn the lights out in the house when I'm on the phone so the neighbors don't think I'm an idiot.Oh yeah -- and how. Both my 8 year old daughter and I practically do laps while we're on the phone. Good thing for cordless phones! I also do it when I'm trying to learn or memorize something. I guess my brain needs the extra oxygen to concentrate! We also do it when we're daydreaming. I've paced around the house, dorm halls, balcony's -- just whatever was available -- probably the only way I got through college without medication.

Scattered

Oh yeah -- and how. Both my 8 year old daughter and I practically do laps while we're on the phone. Good thing for cordless phones!
Scattered
I'm guessing I'm not the only one that used to get tangled in the phone cord back in the days before cordless phone. :D

I'm guessing I'm not the only one that used to get tangled in the phone cord back in the days before cordless phone. :DIt's not so much a matter of getting tangles up but of pulling the phone out of the wall as I walked away or knocking it on the floor when I forget it would reach that far!:D

My Dad doodles while he's on the phone. All sorts of geometric designs in repeating patterns. My brother paces a lot while he's on the phone.

Me... I do both. I doodle, I pace, I juggle (when I wear a headset), I take pens apart and put them back together over and over again, I keep igniting a cigarette lighter over and over again. If I sit still I lose focus on the conversation.

Oh yeah i'm with that, I will pace when on the phone. I won't keep still thats for sure. A cordless phone is the best thing ever!!! lol. I also pace when in deep thought.

Yes, I pace and pace and pace.A cordless phone is great. Great exercise!

I know I pace a lot when I am waiting for an elevator Then sometimes go into deep thought and miss it

I pace like a caged lion while on the phone. Thank God for cordless and cell phones!:eyebrow:

I TRY to sit, but without thinking I always get up and go somewhere else.
Oh wow, yeah, I'm the worst at TRYING to sit anywhere, anytime. Give it two seconds, and I'm half-way across the room! If I don't feel like sitting, I ain't going to sit.

I pace like crazy on the phone too, and just in general, as long as there's nobody watching. I'm so self-conscious about people watching me move around that I won't pace or anything when other people are there, but I sure do fidget.


EYEFORGOT, I suspect "SID/SPD" means, "Sensory Integration Dysfunction," and...."Sensory Processing Disorder," I'm guessing. Probably a pretty common co-morbidity yeah, but I don't think too much is known about it yet, relatively speaking.

I'm a pacer as well--especially if I'm on the phone (which I don't like very much--but you gotta stay in touch with friends, right?) Someitmes, when I'm daydreaming/thinking hard, I can only do it of I pace like crazy, or oddly enough--lie down and close my eyes--go figure.

But I’m sure there most be more?

This thread made me laugh, I get so much sh*t for pacing - it drives people nuts.

I pace faster the more something excites me, to the point where I’m nearly running.

I think this could also be in relation to the gum chewing thread started recently, also the famous leg that tries to jump off the floor with out the rest of your body when you’re sitting down - you know the one that keeps bumping the table you’re sitting at. :D

A reply - and a *BUMP*

- Zach

HF, we have a guy that does the electrical plans review at work, and he has a 25ft cord on his desk phone because of this!
It's the funniest thing because he can go into things for about 30 minutes, pacing back and forth.
What's bad, is that his coworkers have learned a lot from hearing him all these years. LOL
And, he's worn out the carpet where he paces.
As for ADD, I don't think he has it.
Personally, I might walk around with the cordless, but that's to get a better signal.
Otherwise I don't move around that much.
From one room to another and that's about it.
I move around so much at work, due to ADD, I'm worn out in the evenings.

OMG! My husband is a phone pacer; it drives me bonkers when he's fielding a call from, say, our daughter while she's on a trip overseas, and he just paces away out of earshot! "oh, okay,that's fine, I wasn't interested or anything, hon, it's just our daughterI haven't seen in months talking about her trek backpacking through Europe, no biggie, I'll just read the paper or something".

Faithful to my Inattentive side...hyperfocus side....

I do nothing when I am on the phone....I must have absolute silence...and be left completely alone! LOL:D

Which probably what drives me most nuts..considering I live with an ADHD teenage son who gets constant calls on the other line....2 other boys...8 & 9 who want my constant attention.....and well their dad he's the worst of all ,,,interuppts...and wants to be apart of the conversation too!!! :mad:

A recipe for disaster...for them l should they disturb me more than once ! And no matter how many times I explain it to them....and considering how many times they have gotten shooed out ...yelled at, and had shoes thrown at them while I am engaged in a totally seriously deep conversation...they never learn aargh :eek:

Which leaves me online more!!!! and off the phone :p

I always pace while im on the phone. If Im nervious or anxious about something I have to pace to calm myself down.

Pacing is a reactionary mental tic of sorts for me when im anxious or excited about something.

I have always paced. It's been something of a joke. My daughter, who's seven (and also adhd), just started getting phone calls from friends from school, and now ... pacing unto the next generation.

Imagine if one has a whole buncha' cogs in one's mind.

It's wicked cool - and will work some - but it says - guy~! here's the deal - I'm all yours - but if you don't sustain my attention - I'm gonna' wander - and the less you engage in activities which turn my world - well 'dude' ... you've got this coming to you - the less I can promise that - your world will be just so
~just so~

so - I am pretty sure - that when we're running the risk of dropping below that threshold - that we engage in activities which potentially can lift us back over that threshold.

So - just to state that we're dealing in neurotransmission or neural firing numbers, rates (the stimulation which the ADDer mind craves) - and that
of course - the kindsa'activities which can give us that little extra - include

pacing
chewing
dreaming
looking around
listening to music

it's kinda' simple - just a case of putting SL's list of band widths for our senses together the idea that energy is transmitted from (in effect) - the outside ->- inside - and that's the job of the peripheral nervous system and its relaying effects to the CNS or brain.

Just then to say - that thought is kinda' special - divorces us off from the need for sensual excitement :-)

... neural stimulation may be obtained - in a well developed mind
by diving into the mind itself - into our own mind - and playing that character (ourselves) on our own internal stage.

It's all about the cogs -
windmills of mind.
Neurotransmission is the wind.

And there are different strengths of wind.

But just kinda' like with motorbikes -
one should not drive a Ducati Monster 1 mile per day at 0-20 mph ...

because
... as with the mind.

Only one thing can arise through maltreatment of our throbbing core.

mind
no more.

mi/in 2/nd
... broken

I pace endlessly while on the phone or in deep thought, or just daydreaming. In my thoughts, I find that it increases the focus and I get some of my best ideas when pacing. I usually pace in in circles, but that may be due to the floorplan of my home. :D

That does not sound crazy at all matters of fact I pace when on the phone but I was able to quite pacing and clean instead it is great by the time I am off the phone my house is clean. Try that on for crazy :) ;)