It’s time to start submitting your stims and getting the conversation rolling! The idea of this blog is to explore how stimming is experienced by autistic people, and to build a database of behaviour types. What are your stims? How do they feel? What parameters of the stim are the most relaxing? What music is best for stimming?
I want to hear how happy you all become when you do your favourite stims. I want to see diagrams of what kind of movements have the biggest effect. I want to see pictures of what you imagine when you stim. I ask not just what stims you have, but how you conceptualise stimming as a sensory experience.
I’m interested in what triggers them as well (add warnings if they’re traumatic). One of my major triggers is actually reading about stimming, so this will be an interesting blog to run!
The blog is currently run by Alyssa.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
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Based off of a little nostalgic moment I had today.
I was out at a toy store, playing with the 3-year-old child of a friend, and I found this plastic dinosaur egg that you could open and close. While she took it and partook in imaginative play, I reverted back to my own childhood and started rapidly opening and closing it. Thinking about it even now makes me stim with excitement, it was just so FUN. The sound it made, the feeling of the clicking, how the plastic fit so perfectly together, I dunno it was just great.
And so, I made a little comic about it.
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oh god YES
…clickclopclickclopclickclickclopclopclop
IT’S STIMMY I WANT IT](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c4eeff0a3487ed3df7a16e211c9e9beb/tumblr_ml8d18diw71qijio5o1_500.gif)
Based off of a little nostalgic moment I had today.
I was out at a toy store, playing with the 3-year-old child of a friend, and I found this plastic dinosaur egg that you could open and close. While she took it and partook in imaginative play, I reverted back to my own childhood and started rapidly opening and closing it. Thinking about it even now makes me stim with excitement, it was just so FUN. The sound it made, the feeling of the clicking, how the plastic fit so perfectly together, I dunno it was just great.
And so, I made a little comic about it.
oh god YES
…clickclopclickclopclickclickclopclopclop
IT’S STIMMY I WANT IT
Why Stimming is a Big Part of My Life - Arman's Blog - Empower Autism Now
Today, we have a special guest blog by Alex Lowery . He asked me to write a blog for his website. …
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[Caption - Just because my stims aren’t visible / Does not mean I do not stim]
My stims don’t tend to be visible, physical stims. Most of my stims are actually verbal, or at least sonic. For example when angry, frustrated or hunting (not literally, just in the “hunter” mindset) I tend to growl under my breath, by vibrating my epiglottis behind bared teeth.
When enraged or scared, I’ll openly and loudly hiss like a cat, and bare my open teeth. This doesn’t happen too often, since I’m not often that scared or angry.
When I’m happy, I’ll making popping noises or whistle like a Singing Dog (look it up, you’ll be happy forever), plus I click my tongue loudly a lot, typically when I’m either happy or just because it feels like a good thing to do.
When overexcited, I clap and growl/hiss, but in a less threatening way.
— Sonic Sam](http://24.media.tumblr.com/c67bad12ef236eb720494bdef496c5a3/tumblr_mmfl9iW81e1rxfiqmo1_400.jpg)
[Caption - Just because my stims aren’t visible / Does not mean I do not stim]
My stims don’t tend to be visible, physical stims. Most of my stims are actually verbal, or at least sonic. For example when angry, frustrated or hunting (not literally, just in the “hunter” mindset) I tend to growl under my breath, by vibrating my epiglottis behind bared teeth.
When enraged or scared, I’ll openly and loudly hiss like a cat, and bare my open teeth. This doesn’t happen too often, since I’m not often that scared or angry.
When I’m happy, I’ll making popping noises or whistle like a Singing Dog (look it up, you’ll be happy forever), plus I click my tongue loudly a lot, typically when I’m either happy or just because it feels like a good thing to do.
When overexcited, I clap and growl/hiss, but in a less threatening way.
— Sonic Sam
Serie: The ABC of stimming
That’s going to end badly.
Serie: The ABC of stimming
a video game about autistic people called The Stims
Thanks God for wireless controllers!
Serie: The ABC of stimming
That’s what siblings are for, am I right?
Serie: The ABC of stimming
L is for Lining things up
Serie: The ABC of stimming
I was more making sure that you got the “it’s not a big issue” info because people have a tendency to say it is than assuming you definitely thought it was, not offended. Glad to be useful!
