Do you vocal stim?

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I sometimes have vocal stims. I'm most susceptible when I stress myself out while thinking silently about something stupid I did in the past. It's really hard not to shout out, especially lately.

My stims are: "SO" and "CHA."
The first one can be annoying, because it makes everyone in the room look at me as if I'm about so say something, but I have nothing to say =_= ... occasionally I make something up. "Cha" is harder to mask. lol

How about you guys?

My mother, daughter and I all have auditory processing disorders. However, only the two of them vocal stim.

Cha--rlie! Cha--rger of my laptop is not working…Ch--ina airlines are safe? Ch--ild support needs reform….
Make some sentences in advance...

I use repetitive phrases alot, sometimes it is what I just heard.

It's hard to keep track of it if you've always done it.

But I do it every now and then and it's probable that I'm on the spectrum.
When I'm alone at home, I do many different things like say random sentences, repetition of words or sounds. I like to sing to myself from time to time. I especially do this when I can't sleep at night. Singing Rickroll from memory at 2am is possible.
But I don't like when it happens when I want to sleep because it annoyingly persists for a long time, even into my sleep.

In public settings I often make a deep "Hm-" mouth closed, I push it hard and short, I'm not sure if people notice it every time.
At other times when I'm in thought it's more of a "Hmmmm~" long and soft like I'm thinking, it's for vibrations and I also do it when I feel like singing in public.
Sometimes I start saying a sentence just because, no intention to actually say anything.

I growl, meow, I make a sort of whistling noise by breathing out when my teeth are together, I whistle normally too.
I also have a lot of palilalia, which is echolalia but you repeat yourself instead of someone else. I don't just repeat the word once but constantly for a few minutes, in varying volumes and voices.

I sing whenever a song comes to my mind. I meow and sometimes growl too.

I say things like "so" and "la-la". I grunt and growl when I am focused on trying to do something. (I am not aware of this latter and only know about because I've been told.) I often sing and hum and sometimes talk to myself (but I really try not to because I don't necessarily want my thoughts being audible.)

My son used to hoot all the time and say nonsense words.

...Singing ~ " doo-wopping "/background vocals , perhaps ?

Hahaha! You had me in stitches!! Those are good ideas. They'd probably crack my room mates up too. I should try them!



Oh! Another "so" person! Cool!

I'm not sure if it's stimming... But when I have an uncomfortable thought, I sometimes repeat the last word / phrase that I was saying or thinking when that thought came. I sometimes make random noises, too.

Or you can always make it look like you have a song stuck in your head: "Cha, cha, cha!"

I feel obliged to learn the cha-cha now to go along with my song

Sometimes, when I'm overloaded, I sing or hum. When sirens are blaring outside, I sometimes yell or scream in order overpower the sounds. It's not effective usually.

Same here.

Mine is "no". I'm weird that way. I like the way it makes my throat feel. I also has echolalia and vocal tics.