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sicksadstar · 1 year

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Needing to stim is NOT bad.

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autisticdreamdrop · 1 year

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iust keep stimming pin

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spenglercore · 5 months

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Omggg I was gonna send you some asks about Egon headcanons and completely forgot lol

So I saw you headcanon Egon as autistic and wanted to know what kinds of stims you headcanon him to do/have! Also as a bonus what kind of fidgets do you think would work best for him? Because we all know those are hot and miss and not everything works for everybody 😂

It's funny, I had a bit about him being on the spectrum to be widely accepted fanon in the last ask, but trimmed it bc I'd already written a novel.

Stims are one thing I've actually put a lot of thought into as far as his character, cos like you said, they differ from person to person. I stim very differently from my spouse, lmao.

Finger tapping is one that he actually does in the first film; he's tapping his fingers on the surveyor's tape measure he's holding when they first got to the firehouse, and I feel like that's also pretty common. This was also my jumping-off point for a few of his other physical stims.

More under the cut!

So alongside finger tapping, I often see him doing the classic idle leg bounce. Both are mundane and fairly ubiquitous even among NT people, so he doesn't feel the need to actively resist or stop himself. Both motions tap into his sense of proprioception in a very pleasant way. Something about the motion coupled with the resistance of changing direction rapidly just pings his brain Just Right. Another thing that stems from that, but one that he's learned to hide after one too many times getting mocked for it is dancing. I hc he learned to dance as a kid because well, in the late 40s and into the 50s that's just. What one learned to do, and in the first film it's stated that he and the others danced with some people at a club called The Rose. He enjoys the movement for the same reasons he taps his fingers or bounces his leg; there's motion through space, a sort of resistive feeling when there's a change in direction due to inertia, the impact of his feet on the ground. But he only dances whenever he's sure he's alone, so nobody really knows about it and they actually assume he can't dance, especially because he dislikes having to dance with a complete stranger, so his movements become stilted and almost robotic because the proximity to someone he's unfamiliar with.

You get him in the same room with someone he's comfortable with though and it's a different story >:)

Dancing as a stim also leads very nicely into his auditory stim. He's a Song Repeater of the highest caliber, and the music that tickles his brain is very much not what people expect. He tends to gravitate toward songs that have sounds more toward the lower ranges that feel 'fuller' sound-wise. Songs like Don't Bring Me Down by ELO, Gimme Some Lovin' by Spencer Davis Group, and The Loco-Motion by Grand Funk Railroad is one he listened to so much in college that Ray will change the station or turn off the radio outright if it comes on. But anything with a sort of 'heavy' or 'bouncy' feel to it, especially if it has repetitive or broad cyclic elements is going to get his attention most of the time.

He's also got a tactile stim with a bit of a story behind it, but I'll save that for another ask bc it's 1: Long and 2: Involves my headcanons for the kind of people his parents were. So, in lieu of any sort of purpose-made fidget toy, he's almost always got a rocker switch in his pocket:

The motion of clicking it back and forth is very pleasant to him, and he also likes the feel of the switch's smooth, concave profile and sometimes just runs his thumb along the curve rather than actually clicking the switch over. It's small enough to keep in his pocket or even just hold in his hand while he messes with it, and doesn't attract attention. And most importantly it's not loud. I definitely feel like he's one of those people who would have to be physically restrained from attempting to murder the pen-clicker in the room because it feels like someone stabbing him in the brain with a pencil repeatedly. Bad Noise(tm).

#asks #nonbinaryvulcan #headcanons #egon spengler #autism stims

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thechaoticgingers · 4 months

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Chainmail fidget

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#fidget #chainmaille #chainmail #metal fidget #autism stims #stim toys

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justanotherstardrop · 1 year

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the-grim-heaper · 2 years

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Sho is REALLY good at masking. He refrains from doing anything too obvious around people, especially those he doesn't completely trust. He'll usually bounce his leg or tap his fingers against a surface when he gets stress or bored. If he's around someone he's more comfortable with, he's more likely to chew on his necklace or mutter nonsensical equations to himself.

#//recently found out i might be autistic and honestly some stuff fits Sho #:: headcanons #autism stims

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golden-bubblebee · 27 days

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Considering the fact that my best friends group is called 'beep boop' and one of my vocal stims is saying 'beepedieboopboopbapbap' this is GREAT

#boop #autism stims

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itsaspectrumcomic · 5 months

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I just want to stim in peace

#animated comic #stimming #autistic #neurodivergent #autism #actually autistic #animated gif #ta da it's the animated comic I promised you!#its a spectrum

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noriartz · 6 months

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Normalize stimming! How do you stim? I pinch my hands like a crab when im excited~

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sicksadstar · 1 year

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squeaking/squealing when excited

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autisticdreamdrop · 2 years

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happy stims

sad stims

angry stims

frustrated stims

anxious stims

fearful stims

content stims

excited stims

overstimulated stims

underestimated stims

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etherealspacejelly · 7 months

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girl help im going feral listening to music again

#autism #actually autistic #adhd #actually adhd #actually audhd #audhd #stimming

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thechaoticgingers · 25 days

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Hello friends! April is autism awareness month, did you know we both have autism ? A lot of our copper items are also fidgets. And the leather items need to have a purpose, otherwise, why are we making it?

We’ve got a lot of fun things coming up this year. a lot of fun shows. When we are closer to the time of the shows, we will let you know what we’re doing

Fun things right now are on the work benches. A Skyrim map out of leather and copper necklaces that are also fidgets ✨🧡

oh, and one more thing. There’s nothing broken about us and we have no “ missing pieces “ . Just because we are on the spectrum does not mean we are any less

#autism stims #autistic artist #autism awareness month

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raskolnikov466 · 8 months

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Stim toys are not a tool for autistic people to make stims less annoying for neurotypicals. I'm tired of my teachers coming to tell me to grab my stress ball as soon as I move an arm or a leg. I need to make large movements and these stims cannot be replaced by more discreet ones. Stim toys are undoubtedly useful for some autistic people but not for all, and they are not made for the comfort of neurotypicals.

#autistic things #autism #actually autistic #student #autistic stim #stim #stim toys #stimming #autistic stimming #autism stimming #ableism

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jennafiresteed · 6 months

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I think people don’t give rocking chairs enough credit. Talking from an autism and ADHD standpoint, it’s the ultimate stim chair. You can rock back and forth, back and forth for hours and nobody will question it.

Definitely getting one if I get my own place.

#autism #adhd #adhd things #stimming #audhd #stim

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adhdandcomics · 9 months

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hey.. dont cry, let's stim in the home depot lighting section together, okay?

#autism creature #adhd creature #i love these little things u dont even know #and i love! the hardware store #art #adhd #autism #stimming #home depot lighting section #hardware store

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