what is your stim?

[abinun1987]

Well it's not that , actually my older brother used to tease me about it when we where younger .. When I get angry/ over excieted I press the tip of my tounge against the bottom row of my teeth and than bite down, not enough to break the skin but it's an "interesting expresion" ..My older brother I supect is also why I'm terrified of ballons still to this day as well ..

I used to do something similar when I was young... whenever my little brother would annoy me I would bite my tongue because I was angry. Then I squeezed his head but not so much to actually hurt him.

 

[Laura]

My stim today is making little quiet Chewbacca noises

 

[wyverary]

My stim today is making little quiet Chewbacca noises

This reminds me that I sometimes do this strange thing in my throat, essentially a grunt but without moving the vocal chords.

 

[_Josh_]

This reminds me that I sometimes do this strange thing in my throat, essentially a grunt but without moving the vocal chords.

I do something similar quite often. I use my vocal chords though. Like a slow hum.. A vibration of my vocal chords. Sounds kind of like a quiet, slow, dog growl.

 

[Aalo]

Do yo know how yogis breathe?
I haven't noticed before, but I also did that today chords just about shut. Like I'd breath with tremendous pressure and air almost not getting anywhere - just from really narrow cavity and making no noise but really low and deep "hhhh". And the air exits thru nasal. I've never did yoga and don't know if that has something to do with concentration, but maybe they have that kind of breathing for a reason.

 

[Mellotron]

I also bite the inside of my mouth when really anxious. Right on the inside corner by my lips.

I do this too. Funny because I was just doing it while reading through the posts on this thread. I hadn't heard of stims before but I guess I have a bunch. I like to make shapes with the skin on my fingers and between my thumb and index finger. I do this a lot without noticing when talking to people. I move my teeth around with my tongue which causes headaches I think haha. I play with my eyelashes too. I've done that one forever since I was a kid. These are just to name a few.

 

[anne.bc]

Today I wiggled my toes a lot. I do that every day, but most days I actually tap my feet or something. lol

 

[wyverary]

Today I sang out loud a bunch. Mostly Todd Snider and some songs one hears on Adventure Time.

 

[anne.bc]

I just started my normal stim again, my feet are "marching" while I'm sitting down. Left tap, right tap, repeat.

 

[Perkinsj88]

This one is quite embarrassing, I never realized it until my buddy with severe ADHD felt the need to point it out. When anxious or in deep thought I often times place my left hand in my pant pocket and "fiddle" with my male parts, I never intend to and I stop as soon as I notice it but it still happens. After my doctor put me on Adderall for adult add symptoms (I don't have add, it's been the Asperger's all along) I found myself humming uncontrollably. Sometimes I never noticed it, sometimes I did and tried to stop but just couldn't, I would come home from work with a very sore and sometimes numb feeling throat. Made it hard to swallow drink or food, quite frustrating, maybe even more so than the first one (lol). I replaced humming and "fiddleing" with eating sun flower seeds and it seemed to help, but made my mouth unbelievably sore so I just gave up. Guess I'm stuck as a "fiddler". I don't hum much anymore now that I'm unemployed, maybe it was kind of like when some people stick out their tongue when they're concentrating really hard.

 

[epath13]

I don't know... I don't really care or pay attention to those things any more, and it depends on level of frustration I guess: rocking, scratching my fingers, going back and forward from my heels to my toes, in extreme cases reorganizing objects or folding paper I used to stare... I might still do it, not sure... Some people say, it prevents people from paying attention. Ok, yes, if you do it all the time but, sometimes, when I haven't had a chance to do something like that, it felt like the world is collapsing or something it's relaxing and helps to reorganize, sort of like meditation in motion but I do know, you shouldn't overdo it... Otherwise you can get stuck in a cycle... At least, I know, I can: getting relaxed - getting frustrated again - getting relaxed - frustrated again... Etc

 

[Aalo]

Shaking my head and doing this repetitive motion with my arms and finger, where I stretch and fold them over and over before I can rest them. Also when ever I take glasses off, I'll have to fold them several times really fast before setting them back. I seem not to do much with my legs or lower body. Or is it just that I don't recognize these, hmh.

 

[xubly]

When I'm really happy, I jump up and down, or kick my feet under the blankets :giggle2: when I'm feeling down or angry, I either bite the tip of my tongue, rub my head, rub my forehead, rub my fingertips together, rub my hands together, rub my fingernails, put my hands in-between my legs, bite my lips, bite the scales off my lips, or move my feet up and down. Sometimes I do them all at once or some for no reason at all :sticky_redface:

 

[Kari Suttle]

I just got self-diagnosed (me and my family talked about it) on Friday so i'm still very new to all of this but i've already identified several stims. My worst one is twirling my highschool class ring around my finger over and over and over - i recently lost my ring so i've had to replace it with a cheap kids ring and am finding it just isnt the same. I need my ring back! But anyways, as i was saying i also sway side to side but only when i'm anxious out in the open in public and have people looking at me - like when i'm doing a speech or am standing at the front of my line at walmart where i work as a cashier waiting for customers. Whenever i'm really frustrated and upset over something i'll jump up and down a few times, moreso meaning to stamp the floor than for the action of jumping itself. Yeah they all revolve around touch...idk if its cause i think i'm hyposensitive to touch or what. Oh and i also pick at the skin on my lip too though i'm rather embarrassed to admit that one - i've done it since i was at least seven, if not earlier. I also shift randomly without even wanting or needing to, as well, usually if i'm excitedly talking about something and simultaneously uncomfortable about having attention on me.

 

[balder]

Oh and i also pick at the skin on my lip too though i'm rather embarrassed to admit that one - i've done it since i was at least seven, if not earlier.

You're not alone, I also do it, though I worry that someone might see me doing that. :spin:

 

[Fox]

I do a lot of things. I knee-bob (I've always called it knocking my knees), I'll chew my lip raw, I do a hand motion where I crack the knuckles of my four fingers with my thumb over and over, I'll run my fingers through my hair repeatedly, when I'm in meltdown mode I'll start to claw at the skin on my arms, and I've come to notice that sometimes I'll randomly say "meow" completely unprovoked.

I don't know if these would be considered stims but I do/have done these things on a daily basis and don't feel right if I don't do them. I find myself needing to be extremely active during the day. Subsequently I've done things like swing on a swing set or jump on a trampoline repetitively, for hours. HOURS!! My biggest stim of this sort is pacing. I've paced for as long as I can remember. I section off a certain part of the house/room and I walk back and forth, in a circle, etc. in a pattern that feels right until I get tired of it and then I go and find myself a nice activity to do. At one of the old houses I lived at, I wore a circle into the wood on the deck from where I would pace. I have to do this for a few hours a day otherwise I will get incredible antsy, cranky, and above all, unproductive. It eats into my time too but it's better than sitting there being unable to do nothing because the thoughts in my head are flying around so fast. I've started to walk around town to try and curb this and wear me out a little faster but I just got back form 30 minutes walking back and forth in my bathroom so...obviously not helping.

Oh, embarrassing stims too now? Ok, when I was a kid, I humped chairs. That's right. I humped chairs. Now nobody can feel embarrassed of their quirkier stims because hey, at least you don't make love to recliners.

 

[WilliamGeorge]

I'm too embarassed to say my stim

 

[Ylva]

Oh, embarrassing stims too now? Ok, when I was a kid, I humped chairs. That's right. I humped chairs. Now nobody can feel embarrassed of their quirkier stims because hey, at least you don't make love to recliners.

Don't be too sure of that.

 

[Jacki Cucinotta]

Always did this, and still do to an extent, more so if I'm nervous or overwhelmed more than anything: rocking back and forth.

 

[Fox]

Don't be too sure of that.

Well I guess I have no choice but to start a club for them freaky deaky chair lovers then.

In case anyone was wondering, yes. There will be jackets. :sticky_cool:

You know what I realized today? If I'm wearing something on my upper body with drawstrings (i.e. my hoodie) then I'll play with the strings. Tug on them, twirl them around my fingers, run my fingers down them repeatedly, and so on.