stimming for life?

Hi, I'm very new here, and I was only diagnosed with ASD pretty recently right on my 23 birthday basically, so I'm not an expert or anything, but from my personal experience re-contextualizing my whole life pretty much I don't think it ever stops. But it does tend to decrease over time or fluctuate depending on the day or how stressed you are and such.

Also according to all these self help websites and such that I'm checking out nowadays its perfectly normal behavior for someone with autism and should not be attempted to be reduced just for societal standards, only reduced if its self harming or some such (like me with head hitting for example). In regards to that as well, certain things such as stim toys can help turn a potentially "bad" stim into a better one, like me with an oral fixation I would bite the heck out of my fingers, especially when I'm stressed (like to the point of bleeding and stuff) but I got a chewy necklace thingy after i got diagnosed and wanted to spare my fingers so I could type faster for my dissertation and it helped a lot. Sorry if this isn't all that helpful or anything this is my first time writing on a forum to anyone ever honestly, because my doctor told me I need to try talking to people more and to join this forum in the first place.

Now I don't know where you live or anything, but I assume anywhere in the UK is fine, and I also don't know if you can get banned for posting links like some other places but 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/911249518/silicone-gemstone-crystal-shaped-chew?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=stim+toy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&bes=1&col=1

this is the kind of thing I liked for chewing on until I broke it if you were interested, there are also plenty of similar things on Amazon for example. Good luck with everything and have a good day / life.

Hi, I'm very new here, and I was only diagnosed with ASD pretty recently right on my 23 birthday basically, so I'm not an expert or anything, but from my personal experience re-contextualizing my whole life pretty much I don't think it ever stops. But it does tend to decrease over time or fluctuate depending on the day or how stressed you are and such.

Also according to all these self help websites and such that I'm checking out nowadays its perfectly normal behavior for someone with autism and should not be attempted to be reduced just for societal standards, only reduced if its self harming or some such (like me with head hitting for example). In regards to that as well, certain things such as stim toys can help turn a potentially "bad" stim into a better one, like me with an oral fixation I would bite the heck out of my fingers, especially when I'm stressed (like to the point of bleeding and stuff) but I got a chewy necklace thingy after i got diagnosed and wanted to spare my fingers so I could type faster for my dissertation and it helped a lot. Sorry if this isn't all that helpful or anything this is my first time writing on a forum to anyone ever honestly, because my doctor told me I need to try talking to people more and to join this forum in the first place.

Now I don't know where you live or anything, but I assume anywhere in the UK is fine, and I also don't know if you can get banned for posting links like some other places but 

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/911249518/silicone-gemstone-crystal-shaped-chew?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=stim+toy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&bes=1&col=1

this is the kind of thing I liked for chewing on until I broke it if you were interested, there are also plenty of similar things on Amazon for example. Good luck with everything and have a good day / life.