Hurting yourself in times of stress

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(I don't mean cutting yourself or something similar. I'm referring more to hitting yourself, pinching yourself, or tearing at your hair, as examples)

Do you hurt yourself in times of stress or when you're having a meltdown? I find that when I get upset I often hit myself in the head or on the thighs, or I thrash my body about. I learned a term for it and heard that it was common amongst people with Asperger's, Autism, and HFA, but I don't remember where I heard that.

Do you know the word?

I don't know the word, but I do bite my knuckles and sometimes bang my head.
I bite my cheeks and lips a lot, too, but that isn't a meltdown thing - it's any time I'm stressed, which at the moment is all of the time, and also occasionally when I'm not stressed.

I bite my cheeks and lips all the time when I'm stressed as well. When I went to have senior portraits taken, there are several where I was biting my lip because I was nervous about having my picture taken.

No, I take it out on objects: scrunching up paper, breaking pencils - once I kicked a head of lettuce round the kitchen...

I have, on a few occasions since childhood slapped myself a whole lot when stressed/upset.
i also went through a cutting phase when young. My arms are still slightly scarred...

i tend to hit myself when i am upset.

I destroy myself slowly; I fail to exercise and instead sit and get even more depressed; and I eat sugary, carby foods that will eventually kill me.

It's called self-destructive behavior, and one can do it for a variety of reasons. It's usually stress/anxiety/sensory overwhelmed mediated.

I bang my head, hit myself, and I also cut myself; it's all the same thing.

Damien will pinch himself, head bang and lately started bending his fingers back. but he also head bangs when happy too

I hit my legs. Once, I had a meltdown in the middle of painting...and I hit my legs with a bunch of paintbrushes in my fist, pointy side down. Clusters of tiny bruises.

I hit myself. I dig my fingernails into my skin too. I do that a lot when I'm out and starting to feel like I'm going to freak out or something. It helps calm me a little.

I dig my nails in to my skin, or bite my fingers, or pinch myself. It's usually in response to a loud, overwhelming noise or someone speaking to me when I wasn't expecting it.

i pick at my eczema... have lovely scars on one leg

Used to. After a long hard drawn out battle with myself, I finally got to the point where I wouldn't . . .

Then again, while my dad has the aspie traits, my mom is the one who hits herself when she's freaking out . . .

Under severe stress, I bite my hands and hit myself.

Yes, I know this and do this. Hit myself and bite. That's what I do to myself or others. Except the biting, it's in my AS report too I think. (Oh, wait, I think the head banging is in there, but not the hitting.) I try hard not to do any of this for the past few months. So, that kinda means that I try to stay out of meltdowns too.