Non-native here. For a good half a minute I couldn’t wrap my head around legs having to do anything with “door guards”.

One of my kind colleagues asked another - “What are you sewing?”. It was both unoffensive and funny enough to get them to stop.

I’ve legit just started:

“Can you stop shaking your leg?”

“No.”

“Excuse me?”

“I’m literally physically unable to control it, so, no I can’t stop. Sorry.”

I’m not even trying to be funny or lying, just deadpan matter of fact truth: no, I cannot.

One of my best friends in the world bounces his leg often. He’s a bigger guy and it can definitely get annoying. I try to just let it go unless we’re sitting at a table and he’s shaking it too, then I will gently reach over and touch his knee to let him know. He immediately apologizes and stops, and I feel bad for having to say something, but I draw the line at shaking the table lol. If he’s sitting across the room from me he can bounce to his heart’s content.

I had a biology teacher in middle school who said boys/men bouncing their leg are masturbating their prostate. She would also slander boys/men in any way she could during every class. Getting good grades as a boy in her class was impossible. Not my weirdest teacher but still memorable.

I do this and yet any time I realize it’s bothering someone I stop and am only bothered that it bothered them.

As a leg bouncer I have very little control over this.

The second my brain stops looking my leg is going to restart.

I work in a tiny office right next to my manager who leg bounces, hand flaps, is heavy-handed on his keyboard, and externalises his thoughts all the time. But when ever I leg bounce he’ll let me know how distracting it is.

I’m so close to a HR incident I swear to god.

The trick is to bounce both legs but in opposite directions. When one is going up the other is going down, cancelling each other out.

I’m typically very idle and upset by noise and fidgeting so other autistic people make me want to explode like you’re putting too much nuclear material together and making it reach critical mass.

I’ve had someone recognise I’m a drummer because of the way my leg bounce made the bench move. Apparently my anxiety ticks groove.

There’s leg bouncing and there’s the house is shaking leg bouncing.

I draw the line at when my monitor is shaking.

it’s true,we’re trying to kill you

I do that in the car. Whenever I was going somewhere with my ex, they’d always tell me to stop, lol.

For me it’s enough to rearrange my legs so I’m no longer able to bounce them to stop. An easy fix tbh. Though I do enjoy bouncing my leg when it happens and I’m not bothering people but I don’t have to bounce.

I am really, really sorry. That really bothers me when people do it, but I know it helps them. I try to tolerate it if I’m not having an awful sensory day, but sometimes it’s like the noisy lightbulb and I just can’t take it.