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what is your stim?

Soup said:
@ Poey: How does that stim work? How do you do it? I tried your finger one but I'm too uncoordinated for that: it's tricky business!
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It is very hard to describe....
Your mouth, nose, ears and eyes are all connected. When you pop your ears, once they pop, normally you let go after the pressure is released. I just keep them popped, and don't let go. This allows air to rush through your ear canals through your sinus cavity as you breathe normally.

Again, I have never been able to adequately describe this but to one other person. She does it, and can't describe it either, except for the way above.

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Thanks for the explanation: I'll try to make that one work. I have the odd 'hobby' of visiting this thread & testing out other Aspies' stims. you never know: you just might discover some good ones you'd never have come up with yourself. So far, Kelly's daughter wins for most fun & energy burning stim.
 
I chew and pick at my fingers almost constantly, I hand flap, always a song in my head (and I don't want it sometimes) I love geography, so when I'm trying to go to sleep, I'll name all of the countries in the world alphabetically, or north to south, west to east.
 
Now that I've stopped moving so much....

Soup's stim of the day is....THE FREAKIN' FRIGGIN' ROLLICKING ITCHIES!!! It's driving me nuts. I took a warm but not piping hot bath in that Aveeno oatmeal stuff with a few drops of lavender essential oil, then I used sweet almond oil on my skin & put on fresh itch-less (no thick seams, soft cotton flannel, no tags, washed in a natural cleanser or annoying patterns) PJs. I even took a Reactine! All this helped (I'm no longer scratching like a mangy dog) but I keep getting sudden weird itches in hard to reach places. The same itch is migrating from one place to another; from the top of my ear, to inside the back of my throat to the middle of my back. This stim sucks, guys: put it in red ink on your DO NOT TRY list!
 
The most perceptive place I notice these stims in myself is in the bus, during the 50 minutes it take to get to college. I compensate that always hearing music when I'm there, so I can pretend I'm just "following the music" tapping with my hands. Now that my headphones are broken, I can't pretend that :unsure:
 
The itchies have returned with a vengeance after having gone back to wherever they'd come from. It's always weird places that get the itch too: like my upper eyelid, just beneath my bottom lip, my left shoulder...What is my body doing?!?
 
balder said:
The most perceptive place I notice these stims in myself is in the bus, during the 50 minutes it take to get to college. I compensate that always hearing music when I'm there, so I can pretend I'm just "following the music" tapping with my hands. Now that my headphones are broken, I can't pretend that :unsure:
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Oh my gracious! Balder!? I thought I was the only guy on the forum who used "following the music" as a stim. (Whew!)
 
For some reason, I've been stimming like a madman today. Rocking back and forth, rubbing my neck and arms...It must be the weather; I always get more stressed out when the days shorten and the days turn grey and drizzly.
 
@ WYV: Is election day stress adding to your need to stim today?

Soup's stim of the day: shaking my hair back away from my eyes. I've been growing out bangs (AAAUUUGGGHHH!) & they are at that annoying length where they're ot long enough for me to clonk behind my ears BUT long to leave the way I used to wear them because they hang over my eyes.
 
Soup said:
@ WYV: Is election day stress adding to your need to stim today?
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Actually, no! I went and voted before work, fearing the lines may be long, but I was in and out of the polls in ten minutes. Advantages of living in a small town, I suppose. :cool:
 
I seem to be having a stim-filled day today, maybe because I'm over-tired, but I'm doing the usual tapping my toes and rocking combined with the odd loud outburst of "BIG SMILES SAY CHEESE!" I'm getting some funny looks and I've only just got to college XD
 
Mouth related stims:
Putting my teeth very close to each other, then when I walk they automatically touch and create a sort of rhythm.
Pushing saliva out of the mouth and sucking it in again (rarely/never do this anymore)
Polishing my teeth with tongue
Biting stuff (lips, pens, headphone wires etc)

Other stims:
Wetting my hair
Smell my sweat and feet
... and of course rocking back and forth and shaking my legs...

Those are the ones I can think of atm at least...
 
Last night I noticed I kept holding my breath filling my cheeks with air, then letting it out slowly, it made a whistle sound I liked. I mentioned it to Richard he said he's seen me do it before, but this is the first I have noticed it. I may remember doing it vaguely as a kid.
 
Hi, ummm I've literally just read about stimming and what it is and stuff. I know it sounds really, really stupid but...I like to pick the skin off my lips. My mum used to do it when I was little, so I always blamed her, haha. A lot of the time I pick them to the point that they bleed and sometimes I dont stop there. Is this 'stimming' or am I just being stupid? :sticky_razz: I literally do this ALL the time, and then I end up having 'hangy bits' (what I call them) so then I feel the need to pick them, and it happens all over again. Am I just weird?
 
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