favorite stims?

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yarn or a crocheted blanket or sonthing. I take a somallsting and maker it into a knot and rubb my fingers agaisnt it. I've done this since I was a baby. also with my hair.
II also totally stim off of the smellof oldbooks.my mom got me a great one to day and I was all "Thanks mom! This smells great!" and it did. Not too must, not to been on the shelf tolong, real nice.

Mine would probably be rubbing cool, smooth shiny things against my lips. Not only does it feel soothing, but it's shiny! Aaaah, it's so mystifying!!

I compulsively tighten the muscles around my shoulder blades; I've been trying to quit for years, because it forces me to take short breaths and places a lot of stress on my chest.

Sooner or later it's going to give me a heart attack.

two of my favorites, which i happen to be indulging in now as i write, are taking an old raggedy hair-tie and rubbing it against the dead skin on my lips and fingers. i know that sounds gross but its really relaxing! dont let me get started on how i peel the dead skin off behind my ears-its a great stress reliever

lol. i do that with pretty much everything, (the skin thing) like with lips and such.. several years ago my ears decided to flake up for some reason, and I would keep on peeling it off.I had a nice little pile....I also love topick at scabs, booboos ect, so they blled and then reform so I can do it again. in the fourth grade I had extreme dandruff and it would make little scabs. I was known as the girlwith her hands in her hair.

that is hilarious! i thought i was the only one who actually has a pile of old dead skin chunks. it is so funny, when i get a big flake i say out loud to myself :this ones a keeper" then add it to my collection! i dont know if this would be considered a stim but i love to clean th wax out of my husbands ears and to pick my kids toe jam.

Ok now thats a bit gross...

i do that as well!

Rubbing things on my lips.

For me it is rocking back and forth. (I'm definitely "old school".)

i like rubbing my tongue to the top of my mouth... kinda like what you do if you were sucking your thumb... only there's no thumb. i have a tongue ring, so i play with that a lil too... but not visibly. most people don't even know i have one

Heh, I do that too.

It depends; I hold my breath a lot... and I tap my leg when I'm nervous, drum my fingers when I'm confused and I handflap when I'm freaked out, nervous or frustrated.

I only rock when someone touches me when I'm not expecting it; if someone touches me and I'm not ready, I stim the whole nine yards, handflapping, rocking, and I get nonverbal for about a minute.

Bouncing the leg is a winner as well.....

Yeah, a lot of aspies seem to like this stim ;^).

Also (this might just be me...lol), I like to whistle if I'm nervous. I start usually with Symphony 40 from Mozart and usually move into Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by Bach if it's a good day. Bad days have Frank Tichelli's Shenandoah.

Ya...bouncing the leg...doin' it now. Almost always when I'm at the computer or table.
Sucking my thumb when I can get away with it.
Twirling my hair, usually when I'm feeling shy.
Wiggling my fingers in the 'synchronized wave'....I do this at work a lot. (Kinda like Mr. Burns, but not with my hands together, and not in an evil way...!)
And singing...but whether this is a stim, or just being happy, I don't know.