matsuiny2004 wrote:
Sophist wrote:
It's not necessarily the only trigger for stims, but yes, anxiety and excitement can increase the need for stimming. In general, you'll find many of our autistic behaviors increase with anxiety or excitement.
For me at least, I also find stims relaxing, like the anxiety/excitement causes built-up energy and the stimming is a release for it.
So him saying anxiety was causing my stimming would be inaccurate?
I wouldn't necessarily say inaccurate, but it's probably more complicated than a simple A caused B. If anxiety triggers the need for stimming, then I guess in a roundabout way you could say it caused it.
Probably more accurate to say anxiety can increase the need for stimming to facilitate release.