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Kaelynn
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24 Jun 2012, 10:43 pm

TalksToCats wrote:
I have a repetitive type habit (maybe stim?) where I rub my face a lot (especially when I'm feeling a bit stressed or bored).

I don't always realise how much I've been doing this until I realise how red my face has got! sometimes I end up with a mild rash due to doing this.

So I'd like to stop doing this, but I'll need some kind of comforting repetitive behaviour to replace it, and it needs to be something I can do in public.

Has anyone managed to swap a stim they don't really like, or causes some kind of problem, for a stim that they still find satisfying but doesn't cause a problem?

Any suggestions about how to do this?


I dont know if it is possable to do that. Maybe it is, I have no idea. When Im alone I rock, when Im around family sometimes I jump up and down, when Im around people in general I tap my hands together or when Im really happy I flap my hands.



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24 Jun 2012, 10:55 pm

XFilesGeek wrote:
Rubbing your face and fiddling with a pen probably wouldn't qualify as these things are pretty common in the general population of adults.


So I am going to guess the majority of mine would not fit into the "normal" category. When I was younger, I had a lot of different ones, but I normally only had one main stim that I always did. I often would learn to notice when I was doing it and then would try to stop. After a while, the stim would go away but a different one always replaced it.