People who sit and shake their leg/s

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Obviously I am not talking about people with neurological or physical conditions that make them have a tremor or shake.
I'm talking about people who sit and jiggle one or both legs.
There is a man say 2 seats away from me and all I can see is the constant juggle of his leg!! If he was sat next to me, my chair would shake and make me feel physically sick.

I do it and hate it.

It always starts in the evening and I have to shake my legs or stretch them some how. It is horrible, but DH is used to me. I love going to late night cinema but hate knowing my legs are going to start playing up.

Sometimes I end up like 'Cupid Stunt' the Kenny Everit Character from a couple of light years ago with my legs are flinging everywhere! ( only when I'm at home though!)

My mum does it when she needs a piss. Why she doesn't just get up and HAVE A PISS I'll never know...

Dd does it she has DCD dh does it he is more than likely has the same but undiagnosed it is irritating though

Just lold at cupid stunt

It's displacement -- the transferring and expelling of nervous energy into something physical; an outlet.

I think the restless leg affliction is different from the leg jigging to which the OP refers.

I have restless legs sometimes at night and have to move them every few moments until the feelings wear off, but it does not take the form of rapid up and down movements so it is not like the leg jigging that so many men, and it's usually men, do. It is particularly noticeable amongst the audience at a lecture or similar. You can easily count the leg jiggers and very annoying it is too if one is sitting by you. I reckon it is either tension or some sort of sexual sublimation

I'm another who does it. I don't notice but my DH sometimes looks pointedly at me and I try to stop. I'm terrible in bed and often my DH will sleep in the spare room.

I notice a kind of pressure in my ankles if I deliberately try to stop though and can only beat it so long before o have to either stand up and walk around or jiggle again.

I do it, I don't look like I have a neurological condition, but I do- Asperger's syndrome. It's a stim that I do when I'm nervous or anxious.

Yes, YABVVU to mention it or let it annoy you.

Unless of course you have never been known to pick your nose, pull at your hair, pick fluff off your clothes, talk on your phone, tap away on your phone, wriggle in any way, make eye contact with strangers, drink coffee/eat on public transport, have small children or a pram, talk loudly to elderly deaf relatives, whistle or sing in public, stretch or sit over the seat next to you, put your bag/newspaper/rubbish on the seat next to you, sit alone at a table for four, save a seat or table for someone else, make your mind you what you will order after you get to the front of the queue, eat your own food in a café, want to split a bill evenly when you ate/drank the most.....

I do this - I'm sure it is annoying but I am not inclined to try to stop because of all the calories it must burn.

I do it, but I have ADHD and find it hard to sit still. I do t even realise I'm doing it

I do this, and so does DH. We don't annoy each other

It makes me so anxious and irritated when I'm stuck near a leg jiggler. I have the same reaction if I'm sitting opposite someone on a train who is biting their fingernails or I'm near someone who's whistling.

i had an ex who did this all the time. He could never relax, very highly strung and nervous and the two were definitely related. Drove me absolutely round the bend.

Yes Mitzy or chewing with their mouth open!

I am now sitting at my desk jiggling my leg in an attempt to burn off some calories.

My DH does this. We have separate sitting rooms because of it

I have OCD and fidgeting, jingling and other casually obnoxious behaviour drives me mad. So naturally I married a bloke with dyspraxia who has an eldest child with dyspraxia.

It's all fun and games in our house

I do this, i do it because i suffer from anxiety - trust me, it makes me feel worse than my shaking leg make you feel!

I do try and stop it because it is one of the ways i control my anxiety. But mostly i am unaware of it.

I do this and have done since i was a small child. I have no idea why I do it and do not realise I'm doing it either. I annoy my family all the time lol. Yanbu

Guilty, sorry. It's so annoying I know. My DH hates it.

I do it. Always have. It's just a habit. I'm a right fidget. If it's not my foot I'm jiggling then I'm tapping something or clenching some muscle or other.

I'm not anxious, have no special reason for doing it.

And I'm not thinner either!

YANBU. But I am guilty of it .

I suffer with trapped nerves and jiggling my leg/s helps the pain when I have to sit down.

I do apologise to those in the vicinity.

I do it. It gets worse the more anxious I become