#actuallystimming

[chewelry]

children's museum of science part 1!

if the camera or my hand is shaky it's due to a hand tremor, sorry :(

[adhd-induced-happiness]

Did you listen to Owl City's "Fireflies" for the first time when you were a kid and feel something akin to melancholy stir so deeply in your gut that you almost cried, and a balloon swelled up in your chest, and you wanted to move your body but you didn't know how or why, and it awakened something deep and primal inside you,

And you thought maybe it was flight, that freedom, that exhilaration, and for a time you were obsessed - wishing you could fly, because maybe then you'd finally do whatever it is the music makes you want to do,

And now as an adult you crave good music like sugar, and you savor every hit of dopamine you get, wringing every last drop of it from your playlist, the balloon in your chest (longing) still there but never popped,

And your hands are just in your lap but your body is pulsing, desperate to move, desperate to do something - something! You can't listen to music like that and be still - but you still don't understand how you should move, so you stay calm, eyes unfocused, picking at your cuticles, listening to that lead line over and over and over and wishing it would never end,

Wishing that other people could understand what it does to you,

Longing for a feeling you don't know how to achieve,

Wishing you could fly,

Or are you neurotypical?

[stimmystims]

Are there any other users that started on Tumbles when they were like 12 or 13 and now you’re older than almost everyone here and it’s so weird? Because it’s so weird.

[vampire-clowns-r-us]

*harmonizes with the microwave as a vocal stim*

[actuallystimming]

Don’t touch people’s stim toys or comfort objects without permission. They can be incredibly important to neurodivergent people and taking them away or even just touching them can make people uncomfortable or panicky.

If you do want to try a stim toy or touch a comfort object, ask politely, be prepared for the answer to be no, and most importantly accept a non-verbal no. People might be uncomfortable saying yes but not feel like they’re allowed to say no. And if they do say yes, give the item back as soon as the person who has let you try it indicates in any way (verbally or otherwise) that they want you to stop touching it.

[autisticjoy]

yes portray stimming in a postive light to combat the very negative view of it by neurotypicals but don’t forget that stimming is connected to all emotions not just positive ones and dismissing that also dismisses what stimming actually is and means to autistic people

[sackof-stims]

before i say anything: i am white

ive noticed that both the stimming and cleancore communities are almost entirely white? i dont know how to fix/help with this but i dont see a lot (meaning none) of posts mentioning it and i think its important? probably? i dont want to overstep or say the wrong things because, again, im white, but if theres anything i can do to help lmk?

[hawthornthoughts]

Person: What's that?

Me: It's a tangle, it gives me something to do with my hands while I talk

Person: Can I try it?

Me: Sure! *hands them the tangle*

Me: *retrieves a second, smaller tangle from my pocket to hold until they give it back*