Do you have any calming and soothing routines or rituals that you use to help unwind and slow yourself down if you find yourself moving a bit too quickly?
Category Archives: stimming
An Autistic Stimming – Flying Glitter Discs
Where was this in my childhood? This stuff is so cool. And this one has a really smooth feeling, like I just need to rub it.
An Autistic Visually Stimming
It’s like visual ASMR, I guess. You know how people say ASMR gives you a relaxing, pleasant sensation that helps you go to bed? I watch slime videos and glitter videos and visual stim videos before bed, almost every day on Instagram, and it’s how I fall asleep.
An Autistic Stimming – Why ANYTHING Can be a Stim Tool
Do you pick up random objects and stim with them? Just anything and everything? I do. Let me know in the comments below what are you favourite household objects to stim with?
An Autistic Stimming with Ice Pops – do you LOVE them or HATE them?
I also like things that have a lot of flavor. This is just one of my favorite sensory things here, is a nice icy pop.
An Autistic Stimming – Stimmy Hair Toy
It was one of my favorite things, and I still have it. I still like it. It’s still fun.
An Autistic Stimming – Stimmy Liquid Sand Phone Case
It is a liquid sand filled phone case, and I need a phone case because I drop my phone a lot because I’m clumsy.
An Autistic Perspective – Stimming & Masking
Those stims that I do when I’m trying to be quiet and still, and not disruptive, tend to actually be stims that aren’t very good for me, like ripping off my fingernails, and things that hurt. So, it’s much better to let my body just stim naturally.
Autistic Stimming – My First Chewy Necklace
And now I’m engaging in a behaviour that is better for my health. I’m a little self-conscious, I need to admit, that I am an adult chewing on something, but I’m going to get over that because this is just so much better for me than biting holes in my lips and mouth.
An Autistic Perspective – Stim Suppression
When I can’t move at all, I start to get this really heavy tension in my body. I get tension in my shoulders. I get tension in my jaw. I get tension in my neck and my legs. I hold my body hard and tight and stiff just to keep myself from moving, and it feels horrible.
