Has Stimming Ever Gotten You Into Trouble?

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Because it has for me... I remember sitting in my sixth grade Science class, just messing around with my hands at my lab table.

My teacher then immediately assumed that I was putting makeup on. Lol, just what? I didn't even wear makeup at the time, (and I still don't).

Eventually, he got so fed up with me, that he yelled at me in front of the entire class... There was also another girl who was getting yelled at, but that still didn't make me feel any better... I felt like crying for the rest of the period.

I'm pretty sure he felt bad afterwords once my aid told him I was on the spectrum, though. And even after that day, he began acting nicer towards me...

So, has anyone else had a similar experience to mine?

It's never gotten me in trouble but people have told me to "Stop it!"

I've had people give me grief about my side-to-side swaying several times because it distracted them while they were trying to talk to me, but I can't recall a time it actually got me in trouble.

I do remember a lot of complaining when I was a kid because I would always lean chairs back and make them rock, even if they weren't rocking chairs - mothers have a fit when you do that in their expensive dining room furniture and teachers hate it because the metal caps on the feet of school chairs would dig gashes in linoleum floors.

Mainly teased

I have never gotten in trouble from stimming. No one ever complained at what I did except telling me to sit down when I would pace.

I didn't get into much trouble for stimming, but my back-and-forth rocking has annoyed my peers to the point that they would ask me to stop it.

Yes, I was constantly told to "Stop drawing, look up and pay attention". I would go into 'auto-sketch mode', which would get me to a relaxed enough state, to actually be able to absorb the material being presented. I would, of course, stop when asked, because, 1) I never wanted to get into trouble. 2) I hated attention being drawn to me. 3) my lack of knowledge as to why I was unconsciously sketching did not provide for the ability to explain or justify my behavior, which had been perceived as rudeness, total lack of interest or regard for my education. et al, yet I was an extremely well behaved, mild-mannered, consciences child/person, in general.

I've never gotten into trouble, but I've annoyed people before with some louder stimming, like tapping a pencil on a desk.

One low-functioning autistic, whom was in therapy with me and one of my autistic friends, was upset because he said the psychologist who was looking after us was talking too quickly and he started flapping his hands wildly and she got angry at him and said "Quiet hands!" and his hands immediately slammed onto the table and he started to cry. This was the administration for my elementary school. If you flap your hands, you need to sit on them or someone yells "Quiet hands!"

Slowly, me and my autistic peers started to repress our stims. Until middle school. I'm thankful for the administration not being jerks (as much).

At first, we started stimming subtly, but on occasions where one of us is in distress, stimming gets big.

I got into trouble a lot when I was young for repeating back what I heard. Also got into trouble for cracking my ankles and my leg jumping.

I don't understand how anyone can get in trouble for stimming that is just normal or something lot of people do and it's not even loud or disruptive. Is that what they mean by an impairment if it gets you into trouble because some people are really that closed minded and want you to be a zombie?

My wife hates it. She didn't even like it when I put a stone in my pocket to give my hands something to do without people looking.