How are you stimming right now?

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I am stimming by clacking my teeth together a bit, I'm excited to be on here with you guys and to have talked to my friend for a long time over coffee and to have such a fun future ahead of me! I stim like that when I'm excited (and alone in the room, of course).

Singing. The same thing repeatedly. Helps me stay focused.

Scratching the skin off my scalp furiously and wiggling my toes

Watching a disney animated movie over and over ... and over and over and over ...
When not watching it on repeat, I'm repeating the songs and scenes from it over in my head and "watching" that, or watching scenes from it on my phone if out ...

Leg shake, lip chew

Running my fingers through a bowl of elastic bands and rubbers that I collect for this purpose, have done a lot of spinning around and staring at the sky today, was trying to identify what code the clouds were sending.

~drawing~

^ I wondered if compulsive doodling was a stim. I started it at the new course I'm doing - it was a new environment, new people, new subject, studying is something I haven't done in years now, and I just needed to keep up the doodling to stay grounded and calm.

Shaking my leg, listening to the same song over and over, and gently rocking.

Rocking, and making a strange purring noise.

I have this old hard drive that my dad gave me to take apart and I'm just kinda' holding it and feeling all the textures on it, which includes an IDE port and a circuit board that are particularly interesting. I've probably already inflicted pretty serious electrostatic discharge damage on it but it's not like I plan on doing anything with it except taking it apart when I find the right hex screwdriver.

I'm sucking and chewing my hair.

Not right now, but I was just swaying side to side while looking through a cardboard tube roll.

Pacing.