Stimming

Hi,

I am an autistic adult had my diagnosis for over 10 years, I have noticed more awareness around "stimming" and I not sure if some of the things I do are "stims" or not...such as repeatedly touching my cold ears which I find makes me very relaxed, hot ears make me very agitated, smelling things repeatedly especially my thumb and top lip this makes me feel calm, I used to self harm all the time from a child which I found soothing such as burning and cutting (I no longer do this as I have replaced it with weight lifting) but I am wondering if the self harm was also a "stim"?

A lot of the stims I have seen in the public domain is hand flapping, spinning etc

Parents

NIck over 6 years ago

I like to circle rub back of my head when in situations around lots of people , if I do it for to long tho il actually put myself to sleep ,

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NIck over 6 years ago

I like to circle rub back of my head when in situations around lots of people , if I do it for to long tho il actually put myself to sleep ,

Children

aidie over 6 years ago in reply to NIck

i used to work with a piece of machinery that had a particular Humm that would put me to sleep during work. I would wake up face down on my table when someone poked me. Very embarrassing.