Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Hand carved soap stone elephant carving from Kenya with free shipping #white #bedroom #artnouveau #tabletop #artdeco #stone #artwork #homedecor #soapcarvings https://etsy.me/3HnIYqn https://www.instagram.com/p/CoD9zcZKF1j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Crafting artistry in motion: Watch the Hand Cutter delicately carve soap slabs from a raw block. #SoapCarving #HandcraftedBeauty #ArtisanalCreations #LiveMachineryVideos
I am an ND who stims as a matter of neurological necessity. Stimstuff helps me deal with ADHD/sensory processing issues; it calms my hummingbirb brain and soothes me when I’m overwhelmed. When I was little, it was digging my hands into the big tin of household buttons, then dumping it out and sorting it 10 different ways. Now it’s glass beads, cutting up/melting beeswax, molding dark brown sugar so that I can gently break it apart.
I enjoy GIF stimboards because they offer the same soothing quality in vicarious visual form. Something about watching soapcarving and pigment-blending and spoons being scraped against honeycomb helps me to regulate my overactive CNS switchboard. I can’t do without it. But it seems that every visual stim-centric blog I follow posts a list of DNI warnings directed at terf, swerf, truscum, transmed, thinspo, and alt-right users. What draws them to stimboards? Do TERFs and Nazis have some inexplicable liking for kinetic sand? What is the direct correlation between soap carving and sexual preference, or sparkly goo and gender identity?
To think that someone whose beliefs and practices repel me might be in any part similar to me and seek the same neurological effects from stimming... makes me mighty uncomfortable. It's the potential commonality between me and the bête noire that leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Even as I'm feeling happy, I hate that ugly-minded people feel the same. And yet if it healed them... but even if it did, I wouldn't want to hear from them about it.
Excited to share the latest addition to my #etsy shop: Hand carved soap stone elephant carving from Kenya with free shipping #white #bedroom #artnouveau #tabletop #artdeco #stone #artwork #homedecor #soapcarvings https://etsy.me/3kwZ6xV https://www.instagram.com/p/CntzQh2KH0-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=