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27 Jun 2024, 6:57 am

I'm a covert stimmer me

Are you a covert stimmer too?

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27 Jun 2024, 6:58 am

Nope.

I'm an in-your-face, can't-help-it, do-it-without-thinking, 24/7 stimmer, even in my sleep.

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27 Jun 2024, 7:30 am

What's a stimmer?

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27 Jun 2024, 8:15 am

^ Someone who "stims".

Does repetitive physical stuff to themselves to relieve tension or whatever. Common among autistics.

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27 Jun 2024, 8:31 am

At work and in public I am definitely a covert stimmer, unless I am in distress. I subtly do a lot of rubbing my hair, rubbing my pants, rubbing my fingers together, touching my lips, picking my skin and nails, tapping surfaces, using fidget spinners, etc.

At home I am absolutely very vocal and visible in my stimming (making repetitive mouth noises, echolalia, repeating song lyrics, repeating memes, high pitched noises, rocking back and forth, etc.). I also feel a lot more comfortable being what we call "feral" at home.

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27 Jun 2024, 8:58 am

It's not that I'm being covert when stimming.

More like my usual stims are covert.
I don't hide them, it's just that others don't think much of it.

If I feel like rocking, swaying, spinning or even scream-sing certain words at a certain pitch at public over and over, I will.

I can control it that I can stop whenever -- it's a choice for me until a certain threshold...

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27 Jun 2024, 9:02 am

Yep, I’m a covert stimmer. Sometimes I might stim without realizing it, but I think I mostly do it covertly.

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27 Jun 2024, 9:06 am

Rossall wrote:

What's a stimmer?

Mines like dancing and doing workouts that are repetitive movements

Mine aren't obvious stims but I'm at it almost constantly. That's why I'm calling it covert stimming

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27 Jun 2024, 9:08 am

And as soon as my feet touch the kitchen floor I'm like a whirling dervish

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28 Jun 2024, 9:03 am

Yes, whenever I'm under any kind of stress, which is often.

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28 Jun 2024, 12:34 pm

My stimming is so covert that for a while I didn't even realize I did it. I'm too oblivious to say if other people notice it, but it's nothing so obvious that anyone would ask me why I'm doing it.

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29 Jun 2024, 4:18 pm

naturalplastic wrote:

^ Someone who "stims".

Does repetitive physical stuff to themselves to relieve tension or whatever. Common among autistics.

I think he was being sarcastic. How can any autistic here not know what a "stimmer" is?

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29 Jun 2024, 4:21 pm

MoeTrashPanda wrote:

I'm interested in the echolalia. I know a "mid-functioning" man who has this, and it's adorable when he does it (I have a crush on him but am not able to access him; let's leave it at that).

But what compels you, as a higher-functioning autistic, to have echolalia? Of course, this can vary. The man would repeat what my GPS navigator said; would repeat what someone nearby said.

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29 Jun 2024, 4:38 pm

MoeTrashPanda wrote:

I’m the same. In public I have to be very unconscious or under a lot of distress to stim however at home I often have a burst of energy to get out and associate home with a non judgemental place to embrace my weird behaviours though some siblings are more understanding than others.

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29 Jun 2024, 8:16 pm

Elgee wrote:

MoeTrashPanda wrote:

I don't necessarily think I choose to have echolalia/am compelled to, but I can say that it occurs for me mainly at home or with people I'm comfortable with. I have many memories of repeating the same words over and over again, or repeating things that scratch my brain right (hearing something that catches my ear on the radio, on TV, a video I'm watching, a chorus, a line my partner is singing/saying/repeating, etc.).

I'd say it's less extreme for me as someone with "higher functioning" autism. I can control the impulse to repeat a phrase or something I hear when I am masking. Though at work I repeat phrases to get them to stick into my brain sometimes. ฅ՞•ﻌ•՞ฅ

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26 Aug 2024, 12:23 am

I stim all the time in covert ways. I rub my hands, flick my fingers, tap my feet, among other things I do that don’t draw much attention.

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