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Stimming

NAS50499

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 

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  • I pass for normal most of the time but when I'm put in high-stress situations my right leg jiggles up & down at about 180 bpm. I could be a drummer for a German Techno band.

    I've also noticed my left arm gets the shakes - it seems the wrist joint is wobbling a little - at about 180rpm.

    Yes - the sad engineer in me has measured it. It seems to be based on the tension available from the tendons - bouncing on their elasticity.

    I have no control over it but I can feel that it is slightly soothing.

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  • I pass for normal most of the time but when I'm put in high-stress situations my right leg jiggles up & down at about 180 bpm. I could be a drummer for a German Techno band.

    I've also noticed my left arm gets the shakes - it seems the wrist joint is wobbling a little - at about 180rpm.

    Yes - the sad engineer in me has measured it. It seems to be based on the tension available from the tendons - bouncing on their elasticity.

    I have no control over it but I can feel that it is slightly soothing.

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