I like putting pressure on the arch of my feet. (Or where my arch would be as I have extremely flat feet.)
I actually bought a small wooden foot massager for this. As I’m working, I can just put my feet on this and roll them back and forth. I get the sensory input that I’m craving without needing to stop working to find something to press my feet against.
I do this too. I actually keep a pair of metal cuticle nippers nearby for just this purpose. Using those means that I get a cleaner cut and am less likely to bleed afterwards.
I also have some chain finger toys. It’s a small ring sized circle of bike chain with rubber on each section. You can put it on a fingertip and roll it around. It puts pressure on the cuticle area and gives a sensation which fills the need for stimulation in that area without ripping off skin.
When COVID hit and I started working from home, I decided to try growing a beard. After all, I didn’t need to look 100% presentable during that awkward phase when it looks like you just forgot to shave a few days in a row.
Now, it’s become a permanent part of my face and I love stroking it or pulling at the hairs (not enough to pull them out, just enough to play with them).
I’d second the recommendation to avoid BeeHaw. That’s where I started when I left Reddit. It’s not bad per se there. I wouldn’t say that they are rude or anything. The big problem is that they’ve decided to defederate from many other Lemmy instances.
In case anyone doesn’t understand federation, imagine if you signed up for an email address and then realized that, because the person running the email service decided so, you can’t email anyone at Gmail.com or Hotmail.com. If you have nobody you want to email there (no Lemmy communities you want to interact with there), then it’s not a problem. However, if you decide you really want to join a community there, it gets difficult.
I left BeeHaw and signed up for Lemmy.world.
It definitely has shades of the anti-vax idiots that said they’d rather have their child dead of a preventable disease than to have autism. As a parent of a child who has autism, the parent of a neurotypical child, and a person who is autistic, I’m happy that all three of us are alive and well and disease free thanks to vaccines. Even if vaccines caused autism (which they absolutely don’t), I’d rather my child be autistic and alive than not autistic and dead.