Autism!
So I haven’t talked very much about being autistic on here. I’m technically not officially diagnosed, but 3 of my therapists have suspected it, it’s just takes time and money to get the official paperwork and such.
But from my last two posts, you guys can probably tell I happy stim a lot. I used to hide it more cause I thought it was embarrassing. But my boss lets me stim at work which is helpful. I sometimes hide it at home or with new people cause I don’t want to weird them out. But I’m gonna try to verbally describe some of my most common stims.
So first, and most commonly seen in autistic people is the “flappy Hands” I do that with either open palms to closed fits. Next one I call the “rocking chair” I either rock front to back, or side to side. Sometimes I combine flappy hands and rocking chair.
The next two I call my bunny stims. The first is I bounce up and down on my tippy toes. The second is I scrunch my nose up like bunnies do. I do that one when I find something too cute to express in words.
Right now because I have a shaved head, I like to pet my head because it feels like a hedgehog and it’s very calming and soft. But when my hair grows out I like to play with my curls since they’re really soft and bouncy.
The next one I do is shaking my head back and forth. I call it my “dizzy” stim cause it makes the room all blurry like when you go super fast on a roller coaster. This is usually also combined with my nose scrunching stim.
Because of my septum piercing, I do my “duck lips” stim, where I purse my lips and play with the jewellery by wiggling it front to back. This is the most addicting one, I’m pretty sure if someone watched they could catch me doing it in my sleep.
The next one I call “the fly” cause sometimes flies rub their little hands together like Disney villains do, but I do that with my feet. Kinda like how crickets rub their body parts together to make noise. I also do little finger taps.
This one’s really weird and it freaks people out when they see it. And it’s really hard to describe, but I can kinda do the worm with my second toe. My toes are hypermobile so I basically push down on my toe until it dislocates then pops back into place. And it looks like it’s making a wave motion. It’s not the best stim cause it’s probably not good for me, but it feels funny and I do it subconsciously.
Another stim I for sure have to stop, but I’ve been doing it since I was little, so it really hard to. When I get super excited, I bit things. Normally I try to bite the collar or hem of my shit. But if I go for my sleeve, often times I miss and just end up biting myself. And I bite my thumbs and for fingers a lot. Never hard enough to hurt too bad, but I have drawn blood in the past.
But I think that’s all of them. That I’m aware of at least. There’s probably a bunch of shit I do that I’m not conscious of.
An: I got deja vu writing this, and that’s a feeling I hate more than anything in the world. It’s awful and it makes me feel icky and paranoid
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Neurodivergent people who hair pick/pull as a stim:
How do I stop??
I appreciate it is a sensory thing so I need to find something similar sensory wise to do but I have no idea where to start.
If anyone has experience with this please give me suggestions for what to do instead. Thank you
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Much like a dog licking a hot spot, I continue to grind the ulcer on my tongue against my teeth
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Howdy My Beloved
(I’m so down bad for him it’s horrifying)
LMAOOO mostly mutual howdy love
speaking of howdy iv been seein cowboy/Wild West aus for welcome home and I decided to dip my toes in it a lil while I was hyper KXHDGDH
cw poorly drawn guns and messy sketches
I was just gunna make Home a sheriff’s buildin’, but I thought it would be cooler if he was a big bad spooki
also howdy’s lil bugdega is both a convenient store and a restaurant/bar (same building, all shopping stuff at the front while the restaurant is in the back) howdy can make a mean beef n cheddar KDHHFH
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