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Kamoku
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12 Jul 2017, 12:01 am

I've been doing this weird stim ever since I was a one year old. Folding my ear into my ear canal. I mostly do it when I need to calm down. And it feels better when my ear is cold. But I'm wondering, does anyone else do this? I've tried seeing online if anyone else does, and I get nowhere.


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AceofPens
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12 Jul 2017, 10:32 am

I've done that, although I've never thought of it as a stim before...When I was a baby I would grab my mom's or sister's hair and shove it into my ear, too. I forced myself to stop stimming for the most part when I was a tween, though, because they developed into compulsions too often, and I would get caught in loops.


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sunshinescj
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12 Jul 2017, 11:15 am

Never really done it before but just tried it. It feels good! If you don't mind me asking when were you diagnosed? I see we're around the same age.