Nope you are not alone in this, I too keep mine in my mouth when I am not using it.

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Sometimes I chew on my Stylus.

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Mines usually in my mouth when its not being used. Always lose it otherwise..

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I do this as well. Mainly while playing playing puzzle games - Layton, Puzzle Quest, those Yoshi puzzles on Tetris. Sometimes while playing Phoenix Wright I twiddle the stylus between my fingers like a cheerleader's baton.

My little brother chewed up my stylus for my original DS so I've tried to keep him off the Lite. Are replacement styluses expensive? I haven't checked.

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Not at all. I tend to chew lightly on my stylus while not using it.

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I totally do this all the time! That's so cool. I think the reason is that with my first stylus, I got in the habit of pulling it out and putting it back in a whole bunch, and then it wore the stylus down and it kept falling out and then I lost it. I have been trying not to put in/pull out as much, so if I have a game that requires a lot of stylus use, I will leave it in my mouth.

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HAHA, my daughter and i were just discussing this the other day, i would find that my stylus is hanging out of my mouth like a gangsters cigarette and i would be using my fingers to interact with the touch screen.

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I sometimes hold the stylus in my mouth and pretend it's a cigarette. My wife finds it rather funny. Then again, she laughs at me frequently.

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Guilty as charged!

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... I just put mine in the slot in the back when I'm not using it. Not all the way so it clicks, though.

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Same here, i hold it with my lips, without chewing it.

My daughter instead, ruined my original stylus with her teeth XD so I had to buy new ones... now when she asks to play on my DS I give her a q-tip :D this prevents both scratches and chewing marks :D

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Only on few occasions when I do it purposefully. All other times I quickly sheath it back into the DS's holder.

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Well, I am the same way. I hold it in my mouth all the time. I think my co-workers think I'm a little weird for doing it, but oh well. As Roto13 stated, I sometimes also put it back into the slot, but I put it in wrong so it doesn't go all the way in.

I don't destroy them from chewing, but I have problems with losing mine. After some usage, they seem to like to fall out of the carrying slot.

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Well, I actually do this with my favorite pencil (it's mechanical pencil, with the clip broken, leaving a little tab that I just seem to unconsciously want to put in my mouth), but not my stylus. Probably because I use my various custom styluses more than the regular one, and one of my favorites is the Naruto stylus - which is on a handy little springy strap, so when I'm not using it, I just let it hang loose.

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I do the same thing, so you aren't alone. Thought I was weird, but I guess a lot of people do it.

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I actually hold mine my index finger and middle finger (as one would a pencil). I'm left-handed, so it's the hand I use the d-pad with.
As a left-handed DS player, I've discovered that with some games, I am at a disadvantage, however.

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Yeah, I do this all the time -- sometimes even while my DS is turned off. Then again, I'm also a chronic pen-chewer.

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Funny, I just snapped the end of mine chewing it while playing Professor Layton. When my girlfriend was playing it the other day she thought she did it cuz she does the same thing.

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