[Stimming] - Flapping Hands

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Yo wazzup people, just gots me a question to ask yas and ay'll be usin a different talkin' starl purez because ay feel like it.

This flapping yo hands stim, why does it feel so baus? When ay flap me hands the feels exhausts me muscles, but vhen ay bounce it feels a lot better! Is this a personal thing, or do others feel.. me?

Discous plarx.


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Nope, it energizes me.

Mentally it energizes me, but physically my muscles get tired pretty fast. Maybe I'm just weak. >.>

How long do you guys flap?

I have flapped some, but I only do a few times, and then quit. Nothing to get tired from and I lack stamina.

That's what it is.. my stamina is atrocious. >.>

I never really flapped automatically but I tried it just for the sake of trying it and it just doesn't feel right, way too tiring. I've always been one to do smaller motions such as scraping/flicking my fingers against each other as it requires barely any power whatsoever.

I don't flap my hands, I prefer other methods of stimming that I usually don't recognize, but, I do it because it *greatly* reduces anxiety. Until it's brought up in conversation.

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Never tried it myself.

I mostly use flapping as a siphon to drain excess energy from whatever intense emotion I'm feeling at the time, be it anxiety, anger or excitement. I did it a lot when I was younger just because I liked the pressure on my joints, then stopped at age nine or ten. It came back a couple of years ago, but is now more of an emotional release than a physical one.

Stimming gets talked about a lot here. Especially hand flapping.
But in my experience hand flapping is something I usually see children with lower functioning classic autism doing
- as opposed to seeing adults with Aspergers flapping their hands in the same manner.
I mean if someone has a raw candid video of a high functioning adult doing that kind of hand flapping, I'd love to see it.

I can flap in excitement, and I can do another kind of flap (more like rubbing/twisting one hand with the other) when I'm anxious, but I never do any kind of stim in public, never have. I have always understood that it's something to hide. So there will never be a video of me flapping.
I don't stim a lot, and when I do it's usually more like fidgeting with something.

Well then maybe it is something only done in private by high functioning adults, because I really have never seen it it in real life and I have been around a lot of adult aspies. Quite frankly I'm skeptical and wonder if it's not something a lot of adults make up about themselves in their heads, because they read it's a trait of autism. Personally I really think it's something that exists in lower functioning autism, and mainly in children, who are the only ones I've ever seen doing it. I don't really consider conscious fidgeting to be the same thing as autisic stimming. I think rocking is about the only HFA stim I have and have seen in others. But that's a purely subjective opinion on my part.

Last edited by briankelley on 26 Jan 2014, 5:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

flapping is something I do, mostly without realizing it. happens when upset, stressed or bored.

I completely agree with you, but I'm one of the high-functioning autistics whose stereotypy is exactly like those with low-functioning autism. I'm not filming myself do it, because for the obvious reasons of being made fun off. But I was more Kanner's autism when I was young, but now I'm high-functioning.

It have flappy hands ad I'm really good at sport, do I have HFA or Asperger's?