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30 Oct 2005, 10:12 am

I've notived a lot of people talk as if they stim when they're haappy and/or stressed, etc. I stim when I'm bored or nervous, but never when happy but sometimes when excited.


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30 Oct 2005, 10:54 am

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30 Oct 2005, 12:13 pm

Sometimes I stim when I think or look of something I don't feel comfortable touching. I've only just noticed my stimming when I saw things on this site about it, so I don't know what other emotions I have when I stim yet.


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30 Oct 2005, 12:47 pm

I stim when I'm stressed or bored. The boredom stims are a lot less harmless than the stressed stims.



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30 Oct 2005, 2:39 pm

When I'm bored,anxious,hyper,or depressed.

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30 Oct 2005, 3:16 pm

Stimming in the morning, stimming in the evening, even at supper time...

For larger stims like rocking or flapping, I stim when I am anxious or excited. For smaller stims, anytime really.


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30 Oct 2005, 4:30 pm

Whenever I feel the urge to stim. It can happen at random times.



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30 Oct 2005, 11:28 pm

Bec wrote:
Whenever I feel the urge to stim. It can happen at random times.


I think that's the same with me as well; I don't think I actually have any stims that tie to the emotion that I have at a present moment.


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31 Oct 2005, 9:12 am

For me it's mostly stress or overload.



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31 Oct 2005, 3:11 pm

Late at nite when Im all alone and bored generally but I do sometimes do some forms of stimming during class when theres tons of people around but thats less obvious ways and only when Im not taking notes.


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31 Oct 2005, 3:18 pm

Usually in the evenings, soon as I get back. More the more stressed I was during the day. I also stim when in crowds sometimes or when concentrating.



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31 Oct 2005, 3:37 pm

I stim whenever I come home from a stressful day or when I'm really anguished over something.....which is constantly. Whatever the stim is usually depends on if I'm alone and it's something that's only acceptable in private or if I can't get a moment by myself and have to do something more subtle.


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01 Nov 2005, 9:30 am

When I feel that I'm being treated like a ret*d, or that I don't have enough chores to do, because somebody else did them all, and it seems like there's no light at the end of the Tunnel. I'm fine, the rest of the time.



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02 Nov 2005, 1:51 am

I stim constantly! When im bored, when im deep in thought staring at my computer screen. Im always bouncing my feet, or druming with my fingers. Some people get realy realy anoyed with the foot thing. but as soon as i stop focusing my thoughts on not doing it, it starts up again. LOL. I do a bunch of other wierder stims too.