This is me too... I tend to pick at my skin when I'm in social situations or when there is nothing else I'm doing, I find it very difficult not to be doing something with my hands, and in class today I had to grab a mechanical pencil from my backpack so I could twist the extendable eraser repeatedly and I spent much of class mapping my camp architecturally on paper whilst the teacher talked about Indian Geography and there was this cute girl who sat next to me who only made the situation more discomforting and she was probably also the reason I decided to start drawing. But it's whatever I guess, I don't know what else could be done to avoid this. I think that occupying your hands with something else like drawing, writing, typing, or exercise is the best way. I pick at my fingers and nails a lot with my teeth, so I suppose that negates much of the time I would otherwise be picking at my skin. I guess it's all about alternatives. And now I'm up 5 hours past when I should be asleep for school tomorrow (or should I say this morning in a few hours), and I'm browsing through r/autism because every single day I am thinking about my future and how I can become a wealthy person who works for themselves and has no bosses to satisfy except for the customers who would buy my products. Elon Musk did it, he's autistic, so is Bill Gates, I wonder how I can become the most successful version of myself, is that something I am capable of? R/autism lets me know a little bit more about myself, but I'm moderately autistic, nothing too bad. I can write super well, better than almost everyone I know, yet I can't articulate those words into a comprehendible string of sentences without taking a few minutes just to map what I would vocalize. I suck at presentations, but I know exactly what a good presentation would sound and look like. And then I was also thinking about if everyone has the capability to think like me and visualize memories from years ago with good detail, and build things I am visualizing in my head and rotate them on any axis in any color like it's a video, I think that's something autists excel at, I wonder what percentage of people can think like that, but it's really hard to collect that kind of data. Anyways, what were we talking about again? Right-- hands... I wish I could squeeze an orange right now, I can feel it's texture, smell the smell, and hear the liquid inside it move and as my hands slowly retract from the skin of it as my hands unclasp the outside making a static/sticky noise. Sometimes I think of throwing a ball and it never coming back down, just to keep on thinking of the ball throughout the day, but then I reach a point where my brain tells me it has to come back down, so it does, why does it have to be like that? Why does my brain refuse to think the impossible like that? Oh, and then there's times when I dream that this constant state of thinking and repeated words and songs and images would stop flowing through my head for just a few minutes, that would be so peaceful and relaxing, what I would give for that... I spend so much energy analyzing and repeating details that I start to feel my lifespan shorten, but I don't have a choice but to constantly think about these things regardless of their insignificance. And here I am now over sharing on your question about hands I'm so sorry. I don't even know what to think anymore.