hey guys ! last night my friend said something annoyed me a lot. in a gc she said “I was so overstimulated in a good way” because she went on a date and she was having a lot of fun/they were doing a lot of things. this is crazy to me though (for context she does not have asd nor is suspecting it, but is suspecting adhd, not seeking diagnosis). since the rising “trend” of people throwing around words like overstimulated, vocal stim, hyperfixation, etc (that’s a WHOLE diff convo i won’t get into right now) i get so annoyed when my friends misuse the word.
anyways i searched on reddit and found this https://www.reddit.com/r/AutismTranslated/comments/1bxbaju/being_overstimulatedbut_in_a_good_way/ and i just feel like most of the comments are talking about different things like sensory seeking. i dont know if im holding a grudge because she has misused the word + vocal stim before (i think she thought overstimulating mean stimming too much it annoys someone but she told me i was overstimulating her while we were playing minecraft on call.. that kinda hurt because i took overstimulation literally (because that’s how it should be taken) and i was like damn i am one person that was just being silly and i’ve made her go into fight or flight yk?.. then she also said while i was saying labubu “im gonna get vocal stims” like idk if im going insane and easily offended because so many people have been misusing it)
sorry kind of a tangent but idk do you think overstimulation in a good way is possible? because i feel like the literal definition is the nervous system not being able to cope with sensory input, and going into a fight or flight response. this doesn’t sound like it could be positive, and as the people in the post were saying it sounded more to me like sensory seeking? i know people have k*nks but im not talking about that, thats an outlier lmao (no offence). i genuinely dont see how being overstimulated can be a good thing, i understand you can be overwhelmed by joy and you can also get overstimulated even in good situations but is the feeling of overstimulation ever GOOD??