Walking/being the passenger princess while listening to music is so stimmy. esp when i have found a song i listen to on repeat. It's one of my favourite stims!! It makes me so happy and it helps me regulate my emotions when everything becomes too much
Question: What are your to go to stims? and how does it help you during your everyday life (if it does)
we need to stim a LOT. we are stimming constantly. We stim in private and in public. we try to do quieter stims around family because they don't understand our autism. around our friends and mental health team we stim a LOT. they make us feel less weird about it. normalize stimming in public. im no danger, i'm stimming.
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.
You know what, maybe its just because I'm autistic, but it really baffles me how growing up autistic people are so firmly shamed for happy stimming.
Like to be so happy you can't do anything but move? Can't help but hum, or squeal, or flap? To be momentarily blinded by sheer happiness? So much happiness that youre ever rushing mind shortcircuts into nothing but feeling? How is that anything but wonderful?
How could you witness such a thing, such true emotion and tell them that they're being cringey and weird? How can you look at the person in front of you overflowing with joy, and tell them they need to knock it off, and sit still like a normal person? How can you see someone light up in such a sincerely human way, making their merriment visible to the world, practically made of pure happiness and tell them to stop?
How can be shown someones soul and say they should hide it away?