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Stimming

I've done my video!!!! It was fully uploaded late last night, about 1:00am ish.
Here's the link: me I'm just rambling about girls being over the top and giggly when greeting eachother and other stupid crap like that. It's a bit quiet. I can't stand my voice sometimes and I won't keep bloody still through the whole video, I look like I've got ants in my pants fidgeting around and stuff.
 
I'll check out that video soon provided my internet connection doesn't cut out again. There's been power cuts and snow over Northern Ireland today... and it's supposed to be Spring!  :blink:
 
Emor said:
I actually seriously have problems keeping my tone of voice and changing it and stuff xD. I'll try though :P.
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I'll do you a deal... if you do my accent i'll do an English accent.


Deal or No Deal?   :D



@Monkey good video!  :)
 
Emor said:
^Irish Accent^. I told you I was bad. LOL.
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Lol, at least you tried. :P Mine is alot worse...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysTpWc_zL6U[/youtube]

Please whatever you do, just ignore me blabbing about valentines and that rubbishness. :lol:
I shall call this my fail attempt to do a vlog no.2
 
I flap if I'm over excited particularly if trying to talk but cant quite get my words out. I usually find myself stimming alot after work because I'm usually over stimulated, usually smacking my head, rocking my head or verbally repeating myself. When I feel I cant cope I can end up head banging or striking my head with more force.
 
Thanks to all you guys for your input on my stimming question.
I'm going to pose another question on a new thread that may be of interest.
 
I've just remembered a way in which I used to stim. If we were doing grocery shopping and I had to carry bags, I would start swinging them around in circles and spinning them. I guess that's stimming.
 
I'm sure there are lot's that I do that I haven't noticed or realized yet, but my range of stims already seems to be quite wide.

As I mentioned in another thread, I tend to chew(though sometimes I just simply put it in my mouth) on things, most of the time without knowing exactly when I started. Not sure if this counts as a stim, but based on what I know about them, it seems to meet the criteria. I am quite sure my fingernail/loose skin chewing is a stim. I have quite a few physical stims too, such as knee/leg bouncing, rocking/swaying; I may rock up onto my toes or sway while standing if I am excited or interested in something, pacing and playing with my hands. So far, that's all pretty normal stuff, I think, but I have a few stranger ones. I've only ever heard one person say they did this, but whenever I pass by plants and flowers... I can't resist grabbing some leaf material and massaging it in between my fingers. I have no idea why I do this, but I've done it for as long as I can remember. Not always limited to plants and flowers though. I do tend to be tactile and play with things in general- like glass prisms. :D I stimmed with a glass prism today, in fact. My neighbor has this prism thing that stands on its corner, on a corner of his desk... I spun it on that flat edge for about 3 minutes before I caught myself and stopped. I guess I just liked to watch the lights refract around inside as is spun... not the first time I've done that with similar objects.

Edit: crap, I actually failed to answer the question, lol. As to whether it makes a good anxiety reliever, I think the obvious answer(for me at least) is yes, as one of the times I do stim is when I am anxious.
 
Calvert said:
I've just remembered a way in which I used to stim. If we were doing grocery shopping and I had to carry bags, I would start swinging them around in circles and spinning them. I guess that's stimming.
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Me too!
Spinning things FTW
 
I definitely do stim sometimes, though not really because I'm anxious; more because I just enjoy it. One thing I do is preoccupy myself with parts of objects. I'll be holding something small like a key or pen or anything, and I'll just keep rubbing one part of it over and over. I do this with some parts of my laptop too. Sometimes I reach into my pocket and twist around the cap on my chapstick tube.
Sometimes when I'm on the computer and see something I really like I get excited and start tapping my toes. Ocassionally when I'm sitting alone I'll rock back and forth a little too. It can be comforting when I'm anxious, and sometimes I just do it unconsciously because I'm daydreaming.
 
I never realised why I flapped and rocked and jumped.
In an argument I pretty much flap constantly (not my whole hand, usually just my fingers), but also I do it at the computor.
I rock when I'm stressed. I tried to stop it when I was younger and limited it only to when I really 'needed' it, and now it's quite controlled.

About the voice jumping around- I get that too. A few years ago I got worried that my voice was breaking :rolleyes:

In school I doodle constantly. Otherwise I'd just be moving all the time and annoying people. Teachers always comment on it. At my last school they didn't understand and they kept putting me in detention (yes, it was that much), trite comments in my report. I was sort of known for it. At this school, they're being nice about it. They said it looks like I'm just really bored, and I explained that it was just helping me concentrate, and that I was trying not to be disruptive in other ways, that it helped me to be interested in the lesson...I certainly can't tune out what the teacher's saying! So we agree that I'm allowed to doodle, just not on work to hand in. Doodling only helps me work, it never stops me. I wish I could stop doodling because I don't like it, but hey, at least I can draw better now...
 
I don't do a whole lot of stimming, but if I'm a little bit agitated or impatient about something, I tend to do a lot of whistling or humming (I have this odd habit of humming the "Volga Boatmen's Song" over and over if I get really impatient about something). I think it is something that calms me a little bit. Anyone else do this?
 
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