Do People Ever Comment on Your Stimming?

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it's always good for little aspies to learn self defense, and it helps with rage attacks, too. it will build his self esteem and help him control his rage. aspies are much more likely to get bullied, tortured, and killed, which is why i urge everyone to learn self defense, or send their kids. i'm glad i learned and feel much more confident ever since, and yes, it did help me gain control over my rage attacks and havent had one since.

Occationally, I do leg stims a lot. I can easily hide my stimming, such as giggling leg underneath the table or hand flapping under the table. I can stop when I need to so its not really a problem.

I click my tongue as well and my mum giggles and asks "are you being a chipmunk again?"

And I tend to interlace my fingers, rotate my hands downward then inward so my fingers then unlace, then upward & outward so they lace together again. No-one has commented but they sit staring in fascination.

Same as when I play with my toys - I have a Tangle (jointed plastic loop I can curl around my hands) and a squashy koosh ball with a light inside, and I can mesmerise a whole Tube carriage!

ETA: It's not a stim as such, but a boss commented recently that I bare my teeth when I'm absorbed in my work. He wasn't sure if everything was okay and didn't want to interrupt to ask!

Yes they do ask, but I usually only stim in front of close friends and family.
Those brave enough to ask me or stupid enough to enquire, I tell them it relaxes me and they stare back at me with the blank 'Aspie Stare'.
I is what I is, I does what I do.

My parents used to when I was little (this was before they knew I had ASD). I used to rock on chairs constantly and they told me off and stopped me whenever they caught me.
Also in secondary school one time my teacher said she was going to hit me if I didn't stop nodding my head.

Thankfully the leg shaking thing is thought of as acceptable. Mine only come out when super stressed and everyone tends to have a nervous tick.

i have many subtle methods of auto stimulation that annoy people.
i will click the plunger on a spring loaded pen continuously until i am stopped, or until i am done with clicking (i am always stopped before i am naturally done with clicking it) . if i am in a meeting and i find a spring loaded pen, i will obtain it and click it "in and out and in and out" until someone expresses displeasure at my activity. most (if not all) people eventually become extremely distracted by my clicking, no matter how normally polite and restrained they are, and they will ask if i may discontinue pressing the plunger on the pen. i most often will accede to their request. sometimes i need to click it a few more times before i agree.

if i have a pencil, i will draw a simple design (whilst in meetings or otherwise non private situations), and i will continuously trace my original design over and over until the pencil eats it's way through the paper. it is mildly distressing to me that i must make a new random pattern to trace over and over, but all the while, i have people who are anxious for me to devote all my attention to them. again, i must be strongly advised to stop that stim or i will continue until i can leave that situation.

i think "stims" are similar to tics, but tics are involuntary. tics are muscular contractions that dissipate unspent energy, and they are like the "shortest circuits" for the equalization of static energy that is imbalanced.

i see stims as a conscious authorization of a physical conduit within which stored energy can be dissipated as crudely as a tic, but with conscious stewardship.
stims must have an unvarying frequency in my case.

one thing that i consider to be a mental stim, is my fascination with rapidly spinning objects. i seem to be able to govern the "shutter speed" of my visual perception of movement, and i can alter my shutter speed of observation so that it makes very interesting patterns due to phase shifting between the speed of my intended observation, and the actual frequency of rotation.
i can see some astounding and very difficult to describe patterns in the phasal confluences of my attenuated visual shutter speeds combined with the reality of the speed of spin, and i can forget that i am anywhere when i am looking at those self governed patterns. i have to be "woken up" as it were when i fall into a trance connected with a rapidly spinning object. i am not literally asleep, but i am transfixed and unresponsive when i am in that condition.

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