A confession

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I have a confession to make.

When I was little, I used to have this stim called rocking. I did it because it brought me pleasure. Unfortunately, it brought my parents pain, because I didn't listen to their orders to do it only "in your room, by yourself." I got punished for doing it in public sometimes.

One day, my mother explained to me why it brought me so much pleasure and her so much pain: it was the type of pleasure, thoroughly inappropriate for a child, that was the problem. When she said this, I felt so guilty over it. I'm a practicing Catholic and have been since I was born, and I knew that this type of stimming was against the rules. I tried to kick the habit immediately.

I was not 100% successful; I had a few relapses. But eventually, I was able to kick the habit for good, and got forgiven for breaking the rules. I've been (figuratively) sober for a little over two years now.

I pass no judgment on stimming. I just shared my experience of illicit stimming, to prove that if you really want to, you can kick any habit.

it should be nobody else's concern how you pleasure yourself, it is your right to take care of yourself the best way you know how.

Do Catholics consider the comfort you get from stemming as a form of sensual pleasure, as in the same realm as sexual pleasure? So self comfort, even though it has nothing to do with sexuality is sinful? That is some seriously extreme religion.

@khaoz: It was considered improper pleasure, yes. Because of what happened, I had to go through a pretty embarrassing confession and I don't want to get in trouble for it again.

any entity that would hassle somebody else over something like this does not deserve to exist.

You won't go to heaven bc you stimm in public!
Do these creatures behind boxes know what stimming is? they probably thought you were talking about a wrist job!