homojabi:

What is stimming?

In it’s most simple form, stimming is a repetitive body movement that self-stimulates one or more senses in a regulated manner.

What types of stims are there?

• Visual Stims
• Flapping hands, blinking and/or moving fingers in front of eyes, staring repetitively at a light, pressing on closed eyes to create visual effect [pressure phosphene], …
• Auditory Stims
• Snapping fingers, tapping on objects, listening to the same song on a loop, rolling Rs, “cat noises”, repeating words, putting hands over ears, singing, clicking tongue, humming…
• Tactile Stims
• Scratching, rubbing the skin with one’s hands or with an external object, pinching the skin, putting thumb inside fist, sucking thumb, rubbing hands/feet together, petting preferred textures, tying knots/twirling string, twirling/stroking hair…
• Vestibular Stims
• Moving body in rhythmic motion, rocking front and back or side-to-side, spinning, pacing, walking in circles, walking on tip-toes, jumping up and down…
• Taste Stims
• Licking body parts, licking an object…
• Smell Stims
• Smelling objects or hands, smelling other people…
• Rhythmic Stims
• Tapping on surfaces/objects/self, clicking fingers, making repetitive vocal sounds, bouncing legs, foot tapping, hand flapping, clicking pens, …

There are a lot of other stims as well that don’t necessarily fall under the category of “repetitive” such as pressure stimming, which are still just as valid. Basically if what you do serves the purpose of the stim, you can call it a stim.

Why do people stim?

People stim for all different kinds of reasons. They may stim when they are happy or excited, when they are stressed, as a part of their normal body language, as a way of communication, as a punishment, as a response to something internal or external, as a compulsion, to focus, to self soothe, etc. Stimming can be a coping mechanism, but it can also be so much more! No matter what reason someone has for stimming though, it’s important to remember that all stims are natural and normal.

Who stims?

Anyone that finds stimming useful, whether consciously or subconsciously, can stim. This includes neurotypicals, but mainly stimming is seen as something that neurodivergent people do and it occurs most frequently in:

• the autism spectrum
• sensory processing disorder (SPD)
• Tourette’s
• schizophrenia
• OCD
• people that experience mania/hypomania
• people with ADHD/ADD
• people with anxiety
• etc

Where can I find stim toys/jewelry?

• Stimtastic
• TherapyShoppe
• AutismShop
• SensoryUniversity
• OfficePlayground
• RuthDoodle
• FidgetLand

oldcoyote:

i had a moment today while watching a whiny shitlord complain about the injustice of new sci-fi media having more female leads, i suddenly felt the strangest sense of déjà vu. i couldn’t pintpoint it at first but then out of nowhere, it fucking dawned on me

rustyvoices:

hope your days get softer from here on out. hope the hurt lessens and the dark turns to light. you deserve gentleness and good love. I hope it finds you soon.

shadowwolf:

Shout out to people who’s romantic and sexual orientation don’t match.

Shout out to people who are told they don’t really love their S/O because they’re not sexually attracted to them.

Shout out to people who are told it’s wrong to have casual sex without being in love.

Shout out to pansexuals & panromantics who are told they’re really bi.

Shout out to bisexuals & biromantics who are told they need to “pick a side”

Shout out to the aros and aces who are told they don’t face prejudice.

Shout out to the LGBT+ folk who’s problems are ignored.

Shout out to the LGBT+ folk who face prejudice from both outside and inside our community.

You are not broken. Your identity is valid.  Don’t let anyone make you feel like your problems don’t matter, like you’re not one of us. You are one of us and you belong with us. You are LGBT+

bearsatan:

sadtit:

poor people: *buy food*
rich people: if you’re poor then why are you buying things :) you should be eating rocks

When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.