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
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. …
Stimming is a coping mechanism, and it’s important, so if others is one specific one that is really, really not ok in public, help him find a substitute that works as well. At home, just dont worry about it unless he’s at risk of seriously hurting himself.
Checking to see if he is also autistic might not be a bad idea, though. And if he is, check advice written by autistic people over that written by supposed experts, because they seriously still think that the guest thi they can do is make us act like we’re not autistic. Which is very different from helping us cope in a world not designed for us, the thing we actually need help with.
Up Where We Belong toward Autism Acceptance | drive mom crazy
So he totally talks about stimming when he’s talking about autism acceptance.
Stim as You Please
Tip toe tightrope. Jump for joy. Flap your happy hands. Turn upside down your toys. Spin in circles. Stare at the light. Echo Echo Echo All throughout the night. Flick your fingers. B…
Stim More! Creating a Judgement Free Zone
Winfulness, actually.
Probably some of both.
Spinning is another one, since NT kids usually stop doing that and then you’ll see Autistic adults spinning. (I spin sometimes. Finished a final, left, dropped my bag, spun around on the quad until I fell over. A professor who knows me fairly well walked out of the building just in time to see me fall over, actually… he might have figured out that I’m not NT by now?)
I don’t know if it’s a stim, but I know that I do it.
*Suspects that there may be a better thing to do than lump everything under stimming because there are so many things that get covered under it with really, really different reasons. Oh well*
A video of stimming to music made in response to today's anon
Not by me. Is very good.
Quiet Hands
Anyone who thinks that “redirecting” or “ignoring” the need to stim is a good idea needs to read this, then shut up and think about their choices.
