Post how you be stimming here. Reading about different people's stims is always interesting, and usually hilarious, and I could use some solidarity and laughs.
I'm nearly constantly humming, singing, whistling, or tapping a beat somewhere on my body (I sync everything from eyebrow movements to breathing to whatever song is currently playing in my head). Being able to perfectly match the tones and rhythms of things soothes my brain like nothing else.
Because of that though, I'm really good at mimicking the sounds of objects and people, so my echolalia extends to pretty much anything that makes noise! I've had some unfortunate faux pas when my mask slipped at some inopportune times It can be a little tough to quickly explain to people that no, I'm not mocking you, the cadence of what you just said tickled my neurons and I needed to try it out or I wouldn't be able to focus on anything else you said.
My siblings and I also sometimes just bark and meow at each other. We're also prone to the typical wild shaking of limbs for a short duration, which I have specifically dubbed "Thrashing", which led to us saying that we're going/need to thrash as a stim itself.
I play a woodwind, which involves alot of air flow control. This also effects singing alot. I like finding ressonant frequencies in things using my voice.
matching a room frequency create a tone faar stronger than im able to myself produce.
If i match the tone of a vacuum cleaner, whisk, mixer; destructive interference creats a wobble in volume that oscillates faster or slower depending on how well I've matched the tone.
Some vases or decorations will sing back att you from the display cabinet if you match their frequency. Jumping a bit allow me to hear what frequency i should aim for.
Hmmm... I'm unsure whether or not I'm neurodivergent, I certainly can identify lots of actions that I do frequently that could be defined as stimming, neurotypical people also stim sometimes right? I think this would be a good place to gather opinions so I'd really appreciate any!
Alright, first of all whenever I get my hands on a firm, thin piece of paper or a strap of fabric I can't help but run them between my nails, it's just a really good feeling, I do it in a pattern from my thumb to ring finger and cycle back (Small finger is indeed too small TwT).
Another would be that I use the ring part on the back of my phone case to twirl it around in my hand, it can definitely hurt a lot (force of the phone smaking my hand) but the spin is satisfying and feels good on the finger used for spinning.
Naturally pens are fun to click on and off, over the years I've become a master of silent pen clicking, my favourite mechanism to click is one where in order to release the pen you have to push down the little... yoke you can use to attach the pen to a clipboard etc.
Other than that I tend to bob my head in an "unce, unce, unce" fashion and tap/twirl my feet. As far as I can remember I've never used vocals to relieve stress or feel good, not my thing I guess, thanks for reading my rant! ^^
I tend to roll stuff like this up into tight spirals, like backpack straps or hoodie strings.
I've definitely had to consciously fight myself from constantly clicking my pens in the middle of lectures and such. I also like to take em apart and rearrange their parts to create different kinds of clicks and mechanical interactions between the pieces.
it never crossed my mind before as something i do. But i constantly comb my hair with my fingers att work, while focusing. (i have cholder blade height hair)
feels so nice in the back my neck as hairs are pulled, like scratching an itch, and it creates nice noises in my skull.
I have a metal beyblade ( actually polycarbonite ) That has a nice heavy weight to it, I keep it found like a fidget spinner, but i use my fingers to hold id and spin it so it can spin in my hand, It's gotten to be like doing Yo Yo tricks, how long can it spin? can I spin it on my finger while my nail helps it balance? (For a short moment) , I flick my wrists and catch it mid air while it's still spinning, somtimes i can get it spinning in a dip in my wrist tendons. Yea! the weight of the object plus the coolness of the metal (or warmth if ive hung onto it for a long time, sometimes i just hold it and feel the details) As well as the physical sensation of it spinning on my skin is very grounding.
CW for minor self harm? I suppose? I also have a habit of picking at the skin on my thumbs, as well as picking (moreso rubbing) at my scalp and face.
The symptoms of this aren't severe enough that I would consider them to be dermatillomania (the need for different people to consider the need for diagnosis differently is implied), however I did find out through that community that dog toothbrushes (i.e. the ones with plastic bristles that go around your finger) help a considerable amount to kind of reduce the urge, as well as being really cheap to get in bulk
I have a 31 video playlist of liminal spaces from when it was hot 4 years ago as of writing this message and a lot of the fear factors did fade when i kept repeating the same videos all from the same youtuber but the music in the compilations always stuck so i just play the music whenever i need a stress reliever or to use it as background music when im doing a long task, and because the playlist hasnt been edited or changed for 4 years, i know exactly whats going to play and i love the repetition of it too
It can be a little tough to quickly explain to people that no, I'm not mocking you, the cadence of what you just said tickled my neurons and I needed to try it out or I wouldn't be able to focus on anything else you said.
