I took a fidget cube from my brother. It has a sphere that you can roll around and a switch (like a light switch, low profile) which I liked a lot.
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I ironically bought a fidget spinner back when all the boomers were bitching about hem on Facebook, liked it some and then bought one of the knockoff cubes from amazon. It's served me well over the years but the joystick is janky. I bought the branded one a few months back but the knockoff's switch is way better. The clicky ball and gears are great on the branded one though.
My only real gripe with them is they don't fit well in my pocket.
I've never used dedicated fidget toys. I do a lot of hands-on projects, so I'll usually fidget with whatever mechanism I've just built.
Get one of these https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsppIy_Bl4c
I could go find my old yo-yo. I was alright with a few basic tricks. When I was in high school we had a phase but most people only ever could sleep it. I learned like a dozen or so tricks before putting it down.
Big question is how the heck do you keep from cutting your circulation off from your finger.
But for sure, I always like watching videos like this!
Tricks like he's doing with a poly or nylon string won't choke your finger like looping tricks do
I'm gonna keep that in mind. When I was first into it, we didn't really have the internet so I was going at it blindly and figured just practice until if felt like my finger was gonna fall off.
I had one of those fidget toys and I really enjoyed it until some asshole co worker stole it. Now I use a spiky dryer ball. Which sounds super weird but it's all the right textures. A lil bit of give, lots of spikes that aren't too sharp since it's a dryer ball, and it's shaped like a cute animal so that also makes me smile
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Brotato and youtube.
I suck at them but I'm so glad "bullet heaven" games became a thing!
Gonna wishlist it since it seems to run better than Vampire Survivors lol
My advice for you is to list what textures/tactile feedback gives you sensory joy.
Maybe is the poverty lyfe/anticonsumerist in me but often I find the best sensory tools aren't even designed as sensory tools; there's a bottle cap in my hand right now that is better than 90% of the sensory tools that I've come across. Once you have your list of things that give you sensory joy it becomes so much easier to identify what sensory tools are going to be the best ones for you.
After all, sensory needs are very much a matter of individual preference and what works for me won't necessarily work for you. It's also worth keeping in mind that reviews of sensory tools suffer from what I suspect is a massive survivorship bias; most people who find them to be meh or okay but not great are just going to attribute their experience to their personal preference and they're unlikely to give a 3-star review while the people who tend review them are going to give rave reviews because it's perfect for them. So you'll often find that every sensory tool has these glowing recommendations but that's often a reflection of them being a good fit for that individual rather than it being a reflection of its universal appeal or it's suitability for your needs.
(You might also consider what else you want in a sensory tool such as it being stealth, being wearable, fitting into your pocket, having a lanyard attached to it etc.)
With all that being said, I've always wanted one of these [CW: R*ddit]
I appreciate this reply a lot.
I think that part of why I even made the post was because most youtube reviews are form edc channels or like influencers and I just want a personal experience instead? I'm still navigating what I do and don't like but I can add a list. Let me do that real quick lol
Sounds like you'd probably enjoy the following fidget tools. Note that these are probably knockoffs of "premium" fidget tools but they aren't the cheap and nasty ones that you'd find in a dollar store:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrij3Q2
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mNziALY
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mrePGVy
https://a.aliexpress.com/_ms0Wupy
Note that I haven't shopped around for the best possible price so if you see something that takes your fancy it might be worth looking around on AliExpress as well as Temu and Amazon etc. to see what their prices are like.
The triangle one caught my eye immediately. Gonna shop around and see what I can come up with on Ali. Maybe get a few from Ali, and a few from Etsy, then wait at the door like a puppy for 3 weeks lol.
The other fidget tools that I've had my eye on are called Stimagz and they look like they'd scratch that "clicky" itch for you.
They're definitely premium priced and I've seen them go in hard on the viral marketing angle which makes me a bit skeptical but it might be something worth considering.
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