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05 Nov 2014, 6:09 am

I withdraw my question about handflapping.

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05 Nov 2014, 3:07 pm

i remember back in the stoned age [70s] when I was a junior high school student, I flapped my hands in front of this teacher who ran up to me and grabbed my hands and shouted STOP THAT!

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05 Nov 2014, 4:33 pm

auntblabby wrote:

i remember back in the stoned age [70s] when I was a junior high school student, I flapped my hands in front of this teacher who ran up to me and grabbed my hands and shouted STOP THAT!

That's horrifying and startling.

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05 Nov 2014, 4:42 pm

nyxjord wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

i remember back in the stoned age [70s] when I was a junior high school student, I flapped my hands in front of this teacher who ran up to me and grabbed my hands and shouted STOP THAT!

That's horrifying and startling.

back then autism was not known about in these parts.

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05 Nov 2014, 5:09 pm

I also rock when I stim, I started doing it last year, I think. I realized a few months ago that I do that.

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06 Nov 2014, 5:38 am

auntblabby wrote:

I used to be a hand flapper.

Same here, but I just grew out of it.

But yes, OP. I do find myself rocking quite a bit...

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06 Nov 2014, 7:25 am

I rock when I'm anxious, to calm myself down. I do it in public too, don't care if people stare.

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06 Nov 2014, 1:03 pm

I'm a ROCKER (just not a ROCKSTAR )

I also spin back and forth in the swivel chairs at work.

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06 Nov 2014, 4:07 pm

Ya know, I don't think that I have ever hand-flapped.....

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06 Nov 2014, 5:00 pm

auntblabby wrote:

nyxjord wrote:

auntblabby wrote:

i remember back in the stoned age [70s] when I was a junior high school student, I flapped my hands in front of this teacher who ran up to me and grabbed my hands and shouted STOP THAT!

That's horrifying and startling.

back then autism was not known about in these parts.

That's still a pretty extreme reaction to a harmless behavior.

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06 Nov 2014, 7:07 pm

I do that but used to to it alot more than I do nowadays.

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06 Nov 2014, 7:59 pm

Rocking is one of my biggest stims. I try to do it slowly when out in public so no one can notice it and comment on it.

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07 Nov 2014, 2:21 am

I do it primarily when under stress or excited about something. I didn't really start until about two years ago; my stims have changed and evolved as I've gotten older. This one is more stereotypically autistic, but it makes me feel safe somehow. I have an autistic friend who does it a lot, even while standing. He can be quite intense with it.

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07 Nov 2014, 3:36 am

I do these things, but what makes them stims? Rocking feels centering and calming, but shaking the hand/hands, swaying and bouncing against things when standing feels like letting out steam. Is that stimming too?

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07 Nov 2014, 11:21 am

Jensen wrote:

I feel like stimming is both letting out steam and feels centering and calming. I think that different stims do different things. For me, rocking is both calming and letting out steam. So, it varies for different people. But, whatever it is to you is correct as well.

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07 Nov 2014, 11:35 am

Thanks. I just wondered what makes certain movements stims.

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