Guerilla Stimming Movement?

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I just recently heard and read about the "guerilla stimming" movement, which is the idea of stimming in public, loudly and visibly, whenever and wherever you need to. The only discussion I can find on this topic is from around 2014. Is this a movement that just didn't take off, or is this something autistic people are still trying to incorporate into their lives? Thoughts? Insights?

I guess that it died out.

Never heard of it.

You just now joined this site, and this is apparently your first post.

Have been here for years, and also go to real life ASD support group occasionally, and I have never heard of such a movement.

Hard to imagine how it would even work. It would be like a "public sneezing movement". The need to stim cant possibly be orchestrated to be cued on command to make a public statement like that (I would think).

Gorilla stimming ...
hmmmmm ...

Well, this is the closest thing I could find ...



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No, I don't mean like a coordinated action. I mean being comfortable and visible with stimming in public, when you need to. The idea is to normalize stimming and have it accepted by neurotypicals. It was mentioned in Amythest Schaber's "Ask an Autistic" video on passing.

To some people, some stims make it look like you're having a grand-mal epileptic seizure.

I'm not saying that's the "right" reaction.

I'm emphasizing the fact that most people really don't know autism too well.

This just seems like nonsense. Why would you want to do this? It would make autistic people seem annoying if anything! Also, I really don’t want to draw attention to myself, ever!