16 Jun 2016, 6:06 pm
Elizabethp78 wrote:
Hey! thanks for your response. I know I'm really late in responding haha. So, I feel a little more secure now in understanding that everybody stims. Ive read a lot about different types of stims, though, and it seems like my stim isn't "neurotypical." I've seen autistic kids do the same thing that I do with my fingers - like wiggling my fingers back and forth, and sometimes it's on both hands. For the past 2 weeks, I've actually been able to resist the stim - but in resisting, i've noticed how often I actually have the urge, and perhaps how often I used to do it without realizing. It's many times a day that I feel the urge to do it. I know that I may be overthinking this, as I often do with many other things in my life. I guess my main question is - do you think "neurotypical" people sometimes stim in ways that autistic people do? Not necessarily finger tapping or bouncing a leg. Thanks! 
That doesn't sound like an autistic stim to me. In my case I have silly putty, two stress balls, and a small chain on my desk that I often fidget with, I often rock back and forth, and I often pick at my skin as a stim which I have been trying to stop. And that's when I'm not stressed, when I'm having a bad day then I will rock back and forth a lot more, pace around a lot, and sometimes wave my hands around as if I walked into a spider web. There was a time before I knew that stimming was an autistic behavior when I tried to stop it, and every time I managed to stop doing one stim then another one started to take it's place, and even so it wasn't easy.
My point is, your stimming is not really the same as autistic stimming. I don't know how normal it is to do what you are doing, but it's not autistic stimming.
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