Published on 12, July, 2020
I was feeling quite agitated this morning. I've been aware for a while that I don't seem to have any mechanisms of making myself feel calm. I don't have any 'stims'. I've spent the last hour reading the latest posts on this forum, and doing an Aspie Quiz on one of the threads, and I've found I feel much better now, calm and back to normal. I suspect because my mind became focused on doing something intently (replying to topics in detail, then doing a 122-question quiz), so it had no opportunity to wander and be distracted by whatever it was that was causing me to feel agitated.
What methods do you use if you're feeling agitated or stressed out by something, to make yourself feel calmer?
Being in nature or around animals. Editing my photos and listening to music. I do tap rhythms all the time with my fingers, feet, legs even my tongue!
Music is defiantly a great way of comforting yourself. For my is classical or electronica.
Another physical "stim" I've noticed recently is that I place my hand on my shoulder underneath my clothes so my hand touches my skin. It's like I'm hugging my collarbone and neck with my hand. I do this when I'm concentrating on something.
How funny, I do that too, but never thought of it as being related to AS ..... but now I think about it, no-one else does it :-) (well, apart from you of course!)
Hah, I do that as well! How funny.
hehehehehheeee it only makes me want to write it even more!
A few weeks ago I posted images of my cat and referred to her with the 'p' word. That got replaced by *****
hahahahaha b.r.e.a.s.t - did that work?
It removed the word "***" and replaced it with stars.... Weird
That's funny, I place my hand just above my *** half tucked in under my arm. I have to be mindful as to where and when I do it as it could look like I'm having a good old feel of my boobies hahahhaa