Stims

[SAIYAN48]

What are your stims? (If you're comfortable sharing them)

1. Talking too much
2. Making sound effects
3. Talking to myself

 

[Xdqwerty]

1. imitating dialogues of funny videos like this one
2. making drum sounds with my teeth

 

[SylverReZ]

1. I talk to myself too much as if I'm doing a tutorial somewhat idk.
2. Humming.
3. What else on the list?

 

[Spring_Spring]

What are your stims? (If you're comfortable sharing them)

1. Talking too much
2. Making sound effects
3. Talking to myself

Is it just actions you do automatically when idle?

 

[Veho]

Is it just actions you do automatically when idle?

Like idle animations in games?

 

[AdenTheThird]

Oh, God, where to begin...
1. Rhythmic tapping of fingers
2. Shaky leg (and fingers)
3. Rapidly snapping fingers
Lots and lots of other ones that I'd be embarrassed to share. I have particularly aggressive stimming.

Is it just actions you do automatically when idle?

Sort of. Kind of like Tourettes, but less involuntary. Like we find ourselves stimming without thinking about it, but if we focus we can stop stimming.
Key word there being focus. And getting an Autistic person to focus on ANYTHING for a long period of time is very difficult (;

 

[Xdqwerty]

1. imitating dialogues of funny videos like this one
2. making drum sounds with my teeth

oh and make my teeth graze too

 

[AdenTheThird]

oh and make my teeth graze too

Was literally doing this to the song I was listening to when I read this! Jesus.

 

[Willgheminass]

Clicking my fingernails with my fingers and thumb, making noises with my mouth, replaying earworms from catchy tunes in my head and with my mouth, squirmy feet. Doing something like "ffft, fft" with my lips while I'm really focusing on gaming, which causes them to chap often.

 

[Xdqwerty]

oh and make my teeth graze too

and scratching my head

 

[AdenTheThird]

and scratching my head

And snapping fingers and knocking on hard surfaces

 

[Xdqwerty]

And snapping fingers and knocking on hard surfaces

i cant snap my fingers, it doesnt produce any sound

 

[AdenTheThird]

i cant snap my fingers, it doesnt produce any sound

It took me a really long time to figure it out. But now that I can, I do it everywhere and wish I didn't know how!

 

[Xdqwerty]

It took me a really long time to figure it out. But now that I can, I do it everywhere and wish I didn't know how!

please explain me how to do it please

 

[Willgheminass]

please explain me how to do it please

press your middle and thumb together a bit hard and let your thumb slide off (on your left hand, slide it off to the left) while pushing with your middle finger down

 

[Xdqwerty]

press your middle and thumb together a bit hard and let your thumb slide off (on your left hand, slide it off to the left) while pushing with your middle finger down

Didnt work

 

[BakerMan]

this



jokes aside, i chew on stuff, grind my teeth, shake my hands, make random noises, talk to myself, and tap my foot on the ground sometime (if that is one)
also i make up dialogues using impressions

 

[SAIYAN48]

I read on an nsfw autism /r that fapping could be a stim...

 

[Veho]

Didnt work

Practice! Fine tuning! More practice!

https://www.wikihow.com/Snap-Your-Fingers


Do you know how to whistle? Same problem. The "technique" is trivial to explain, "just pucker your lips and blow", but the difference between a whistle and a puff of soggy air is in half a millimeter change in position, and you can't explain that in a tutorial.

 

[Xdqwerty]

and scratching my head

And movin my hands around