what is your stim?

[wyverary]

Just wondering... Anyone know if smoking can be a stim? Would explain why it took me fifteen years to quit and even then I had to switch to vaping. Seems it's not so much the ingredients as it is the mouth/hand stimulation.

As a smoker, I would say absolutely, it can be one of many outlets of stimming. One of the reasons, I am sure, I have not yet succeeded in giving it up.

 

[Stacey]

I rub and pinch the skin above my left clavicle. I also rub the left side of my face.

 

[wyverary]

Recently it's biting the hairs on my wrist.

 

[Sander]

Recently it's biting the hairs on my wrist.

Eww! hahaha just kidding.
But I wouldn't do that, I hate having hair between my teeth or in my mouth. Hell NO!

 

[FlitterFlutter]

I do a lot of things like playing with my hair, playing with my earrings if I am wearing dangling ones, playing with my wedding ring. I am particularly trying to be careful with the third one. I have almost lost my wedding ring a number of times this way.

 

[wyverary]

Eww! hahaha just kidding.
But I wouldn't do that, I hate having hair between my teeth or in my mouth. Hell NO!

It's more like baby fuzz; I'm not a very hairy person.

 

[shaunaxaconda]

If i'm sitting in an upright fetal position watching t.v and get really into the show i'll start rocking in a circular motion, I also twist my wrists round so they click and rub my thumb over my nails, bite the sides of my fingers and insides of my cheeks constantly and always have to pull the skin on my neck in order to swallow a pill

 

[rache86]

Jogging my legs up and down, biting my lips and cheeks. Pretty tiring!


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[Spinosaurus kin]

Jogging my legs up and down, biting my lips and cheeks. Pretty tiring!


Aspergers Syndrome: Teacher. UK

The vibrating legs! The most uncomfortable part is when you have to stop and there's this kind of restless feeling in your leg(s).

 

[GoofKing]

Does constant finger tapping count as a stim ?

 

[wyverary]

Does constant finger tapping count as a stim ?

Yes. I used to do it a lot, but right now I'm back to the old classic rocking back-and-forth (whether sitting or on my feet).

 

[Judge]

Yes. I used to do it a lot, but right now I'm back to the old classic rocking back-and-forth (whether sitting or on my feet).

If I find myself standing in front of the tv that's exactly what I start doing....rocking back and forth from side to side.

 

[Dwayne]

As a teen and in my 20's I would bounce my legs up and down, like giving a pony ride to a kid, and tap my feet. I also strum or tap my fingers on my desk. Just in the past few years I've been biting and chewing on my tongue.

 

[wyverary]

Oh...here's an interesting one. Back when I used to play a woodwind instrument, I'd start fingering scales and warmups while waiting for the conductor to finish talking during rehearsal. It drove everyone around me nuts.

 

[GoofKing]

I've taken up making noises like instruments with my mouth or something I guess is called beboping

 

[atrocityexhibition]

I touch my face and pick at my face. It's sometimes a problem. I used to have it worse when I was in high school though.

 

[GoofKing]

I still make a sort of grunting noise with my throat that also sounds like I'm trying to clear my throat ... but that could also be because of my smoking as well

 

[atrocityexhibition]

Also, that reminds me, Goof, SMOKING! That's another one I used to struggle with to the point that it almost was a stim.

 

[Vexx3]

I've read through some of this thread and I feel kind of dumb for asking, but what exactly is a stim?

 

[atrocityexhibition]

It's basically a repetitive habit you do obsessively because it's soothing (i.e. tapping on a desk, finger-flicking, rocking back and forth). It's a spectrum thing, but I think anyone can do it.