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what IS the problem with fidget spinners:

- Teachers are not educated on what fidget spinners/fidget items are used for and automatically assume them to be “toys” and “distractions” and ban them from classrooms, getting rid of a valuable resource for those who benefit from stimming/fidgeting.

- Kids/students who use the fidget spinners as frisbees or use them obnoxiously in the middle of class (spinning them in the air or doing tricks with them while the teacher is trying to teach the class).

what ISNT the problem with fidget spinners:

- neurotypical kids/teenagers using them in the way they’re supposed to be used.

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neurotypicals who use fidgets and stim toys because they find them personally helpful: YAY

neurotypicals who use fidgets and stim toys but treat them like their only purpose is to do cool tricks and have fun and subsequently treat the ones they find less fun as pointless: NAY

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EDIT: I have an issue with neurotypical people MISUSING fidget toys. NT kids and teenagers who are buying them to play with or because they’re trendy are ruining it for people with learning disabilities/autism/etc. who actually need them to work.

At my school they’ve been banned because people are abusing the privilege of owning one and using it in a disruptive/distracting way. This makes it impossible for teachers to sort out who actually needs them to focus and who is just messing around with them because they’re cool. Teens with learning disabilities have enough to worry about, they don’t need their coping toy taken from them because some kids chose to be a dick with theirs.

I’m not asking NT people to stop, but really encourage your friends, kids, peers, to use them respectfully and correctly, so the people who actually need them to do their work can continue to do so. We’ve been using fidget toys for years and years, and it’s great that some NT people are using them now, but most of them are using it in a way that is just making it even harder for us to cope with our issues without these fidgets.

So please, before you use a coping mechanism for a lot of people as a toy or a trend, think about the impact it can have on others.

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This may be an unpopular opinion, but… I think that while neurotypicals can certainly find fidget toys to be useful, the way it is becoming increasingly popularized by neurotypicals is kinda trivializing and ignoring the true purpose of these fidget/stim toys? Like if you’re neurotypical or neurodivergent and you use fidget spinners for fidgeting purposes to help you keep calm and concentrate, great, but the way this stuff is being promoted is more as a regular old “toy” than for its intended purpose and I find that to be problematic. The people trivializing fidget toys aren’t all neurotypicals as well; some of them are neurodivergent, but I find it’s a lot more common for neurotypicals to dismiss the purpose of fidget toys and popularize them for an arbitrary purpose rather than neurodivergent people, the people these fidget toys were originally intended for.