Reply To: Nervous players – do they get to you?

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I fidget. I always have, usually its a bouncing knee or a swinging/twitching foot. you could say its a coping mechanism for me to deal with anything that makes me uneasy, work, play, stress, dinner, TV, whether that fart was actually a dump etc. my wife just calls it annoying and chastises me for it.

also, i tend to do it when concentrating really hard, when really bored and when nervous.

call me crazy if you like but i expect if you took a sample of gamers you would find that most of us are on the spectrum somewhere and maybe all our ‘ticks’ can be explained by that (along with the stereotypes that exist around gamers)

Eitherway i am aware it can be offputting and if someone tells me i do try to stop for as long as i can but it is mostly involuntary on my part through years of doing it.

I must agree with @laughingboy however. personal hygiene is a real killer. take a shower for the love of god