Do You Engage in Stimming?

TheGreatCthulhu · Aug 6, 2023

Mikey the Moblin said:
the current thread name is discomforting

the most "stimmy" thing I do is like, claw my fingers and then flap my hands really quickly. It causes a really unusual sensation in my fingertips that I can't describe (so you should try it right now)
it acts a bit like a pressure release valve ig for when I'm feeling too amped up and can't do anything particularly productive
I used to play with my hair a lot by like, taking a lock and sticking a pencil through it and twisting the pencil (must've looked weird to classmates)
and I pace a lot a lot

Well the original thread name was "Do You Engage in Self-Stimulating Behavior?"

Which has... not the right connotation, that's what he was addressing.

Ragnarokio · Aug 6, 2023

tbh when i hear the word stimming the first thing i think of is starcraft

GrooseIsLoose · Aug 6, 2023

I do many of this but I'm not sure if I have adhd. I'm thinking of consulting to a psychologist in a few months

TheGreatCthulhu · Aug 6, 2023

GrooseIsLoose said:
I do many of this but I'm not sure if I have adhd. I'm thinking of consulting to a psychologist in a few months

Couldn't hurt. Even if you get a clean bill of health, knowing you're all good is great information to have.

DawningWinds · Aug 6, 2023

Yeah. The main thing is bouncing my leg a lot, but I'll also hum the same note repeatedly (with short pauses) and crack my knuckles fairly often, along with rocking back and forth and finger flicking sometimes. Didn't really think of spinning thing as stimming before, but I definitely tend to spin pencils and similarly shaped objects around my fingers.

Azure Sage · Aug 6, 2023

God yeah, bouncing the leg. That wasn't on the initial list so I forgot to include that. My legs are constantly bouncing around when I'm sitting. Sometimes it even shakes the table I'm sitting at, to the annoyance of family lol.