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STIMMING!!!

Hand flapping!! Nail chewing!! Toe walking!! Joint cracking!! Leg bouncing!! Jumping!! Spinning!! AAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

rb if u agree

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I’ve noticed that we don’t have any gifs of Julia stimming. I aim to fix that.

Happy Flappy Julia

Bouncy Julia

Please enjoy.

[Image Descriptions: The top GIF shows a yellow puppet girl with bright red hair and large green eyes, wearing a dark pink dress over a light pink shirt. She is standing in a garden, flapping her arms and smiling. The bottom GIF shows the same puppet girl sitting on porch steps. She is holding a small brown stuffed rabbit. She is bouncing the rabbit and mouthing the words “boing boing”.]

(Guys, this is my first shot at doing image descriptions, please let me know if there was enough detail.)

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Some Stims I Do (And Maybe You Do, Too)

Humming at just the right frequency that my teeth vibrate

squeezing my fingers together

chewing

on gum

on pens

on my nails

on the plastic pocket that holds my school ID

on my headphone wires

feeling the smooth

what smooth?

the smooth

the fabric

the sheetrock

the glass

the fur

the hair

the S M O O T H

feeling the rough

the brick walls

my elbows

my fingernails

the sand

the salt

the rock

bouncing

rocking

M A X I M U M  L E G  E A R T H Q U A K E

pterodactyl screech

alliteration + echolalia = Good Times

regular humming

blinking in a way that makes my eyelids rub around

F L A P FLAP FLAPPITY FLAP

drinking water (i lov the cold)

eating crunchy foods like carrots and green/string beans

also lettuce

jiggling my blueberry yogurt

other cronchy foods like doritoes and whoppers

breathing in a lot of air through your mouth in one go like you’re Kirby or something and then breathing it out through your nose slowly

bouncing along to the popping of the popcorn in the microwave

when you’re in a grocery store and a song with the Perfect Beat comes on and you awkwardly dance by swinging side to side slowly and bouncing your arms a little

cracking your joints 

like making the popping bubbly noise not actually breaking them

BUBBLE WRAP

playing with bubbles in the bath

playing with shaving cream in the bath

playing with shampoo/body wash in the bath

heck, playing with water in the bath

rubbing the sides of my nose and the top of my cheeks

watching one of those big grandfather clocks with the big metal pendulums swing back and forth

squeezing a partly deflated balloon

whipping around a piece of cloth

anything you wanna add

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stims that nts hate appreciation post

verbal stims

violent leg shake

rocking

playing same song on repeat for a week straight

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HAND STIMS!!

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seriously yall please be aware when you’re running a stim blog that stimming isnt just slime and sand … that there are OTHER forms of stimming that are socially unacceptable and that people get bullied and harassed for. stimming is not just an aesthetic and you should not perceive it as that

that is all

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Stimming is normal. Stimming is natural. People will try to dehumanize you or mock you for it, but don’t listen to them. It’s ok to stim.

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Hello, welcome to Old Friends Kin-Finding Adoption Agency!

We’re just starting out, but the goal is to help people find canonmates and other otherkin friends easily and hopefully with less social anxiety than other canon-finder blogs.

Putting in a request somewhere is easy! But what after? Sorting through the likes on a post, siting through hundreds of asks to find the right friends with the right criteria… that can be hard in and of itself! But actually getting the nerve to send them a message can be even harder sometimes! Here, we fix all of that!

Here at Old Friends, we take your information and use the information across the internet to match you up with kin friends that meet your criteria! Do you want to find people that are also cats, or dragons? We can do that! Do you want to find this one character from your fictionkin canon? We got you covered! Are you a minor or an adult looking specifically for people in your age range? Yup yup, we can sort that out for you too.

After we get you a nice list of new possible friends, we can send it to you, and if necessary, we can also break the ice for you by sending messages to them first offering them your friendship! (Mod Ulti can also make group chats on Discord to help introduce large numbers of people and get conversation started, if you wanted!) All of this is centered around you, your social needs, and anything we can possibly do to help you and your new friends get acquainted.

Our services may broaden (ex., giving advice and such) if there proves to be a significant need for certain things.

Happy kin-hunting, and we hope you let us help you!

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@allistics who want to cure autism

It seems that most of the argument on curing autism and other disabilities is that people “don’t want anyone to suffer it”

But here’s the thing about autism. We’re born autistic. We don’t know anything else. And as long as I have access to my coping methods, I’m totally fine.

I’ve been autistic my entire life. I didn’t know it until a couple years ago, but I’ve been finding my own ways to deal with sensory issues since I was born. It’s not really a problem to me. I have soundproof earbuds to block out extra noise. I have a necklace full of perfume in case of a bad smell, stim toys in case I get anxious. I know ASL in case I have a nonverbal shutdown. I know how and where to seek out accommodations for myself if I need them. My autism-related problems are hardly problems at all. They’re just life for me.

So here are the reasons I suffer due to my autism:

when I get overwhelmed but can’t leave the room because people accuse me of being rude

when I can’t plug my ears if there’s a sound I can’t deal with because people accuse me of being rude

when I get ridiculed for stimming in public

when I get ridiculed for whatever my special interest is

when people force me to eat food I can’t eat

when people force me to use spoken English when I’ve gone nonverbal

when people talk down to me because I’m autistic

when people try to force me to do things that my brain can’t handle under the assumption that I can do it if I believe in myself

Notice what all those things have in common? They’re all problems caused by people who don’t try to understand that our brains are different.

We don’t suffer because of our autism. We suffer because of YOU.

So don’t give me that “nobody should have to suffer the burden of having autism” crap. If you actually cared about autistic people, you’d let us be different and try to understand the way our specialized brains work. You don’t care about us. You just don’t want to deal with us.

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figured out this cloth is called minky – some sites call it “dimple dot” minky and joann fabric calls it “soft n comfy dot fabric” (x). i vaguely recall once touching something made of this stuff and i LOVE it so maybe i’ll stop by joann’s when i’m home and buy a little piece of it!

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Chew toy AND fidget toy!!

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Body stim stimboard (because i wanted to!) 

Credit: one / two / three / four / five (cutest art ever by @catnippackets!! / six / seven / eight / nine 

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It’s Time for Stimming Positivity!

If you rock by turning your body-

Or by shifting your weight from side to side-

If you flap your hands with stiff wrists-

Or with loose wrists-

You’re great! Body stims are amazing. Kinesthetic stims are a great way to regulate your senses, and they need to be recognized as a good thing. Just because they’re not “cute” stims like glitter or slime or frosting, that doesn’t mean they’re not beautiful and useful and good for you. You’re the only one who knows what kind of stims help you.

Yes, these are GIFS of me.

[Description: (First GIF) A person with glasses and a chewy necklace holds two stuffed animals, a teddy bear and a lamb, while turning quickly back and forth. They then move the head of the lamb stuffie and bury their face in it and rock slightly forward.

(Second GIF) The same person rocks slowly from one side to another with their knees pulled up to their chest and one arm wrapped around them. They drop their head onto the teddy bear and lamb while chewing on their necklace.

(Third Gif) The person flaps their hands for several seconds with stiff wrists, fingers curved slightly backwards. They then cover their mouth, which is still occupied by their chewy necklace, and their nose with their hands and turn quickly from side to side.

(Fourth Gif) The person leans forward to the camera, having dropped their chewy necklace immediately prior, and places it back in their mouth. They then lean back and flap their hands with loose wrists quickly.]

- Mod Ash

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Stimmy monday! With left hand who just does whatever and an A+ blanket.

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Me: is flapping cause im super happy

Me: pauses to text

My hands: hey! Did i say were done flapping? No. Im gonna feel weird until you start flapping again

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Stimming with my new chew necklace!

[image description: a person in a grey hoodie chewing on a silver twist chew necklace]

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I wanted to voice my support for all stims not just pretty paint and slime so here are my most common body stims!

1. Pressing my finger nails into my palm. I’ve been doing this for so long i have callouses on my palms.

2. Rubbing my teeth against my lip.

3. Tapping my collar bone. I like the vibrations it sends through my chest.

4. Similar to raptor hands but im acctually stretching my wrists.