Padium wrote:
pensieve wrote:
LabPet wrote:
No need to cure or fix this aspect.
I agree. I feel calm when I stim. I once recall waiting in a very long line for ages in an job seeking office (over here it's called Centre Link) and the NT's were getting really annoyed because they were not being served. And I was stimming and really intrigued by a painting on the wall. I remained calm while the others around me (including my mother) were shouting about the lack of customer service. That was the day I became fine with stimming and I no longer try to hide it from other people.
It does nave its uses, very useful for passing time. don't know what I would do if I had to tolerate long waits the same way an NT does, it really is something that helps, especially with me having more patience than most people.
I wish I could think like that. But really, if people treat me they way they would treat someone with low IQ who they think needs to be spoken to in a high-pitched voice, in short sentences and a forcing nature (which is as insulting to to those of low IQ as it is to me me) or say that the behaviour is that of an insane person who needs to be restrained and locked away like an animal, then I don't see how stims are fine to do in public.
Well, maybe being freaked out by stims demands a fix. I'd like that.
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett