Do you/did you spin?

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I've seen it mentioned here and elsewhere that spinning is a stim. Do you spin? Did you as a child?

I used to spin right up until I was a teenager: I'd stand in the middle of the room (usually the kitchen) and start spinning around in circles. I'd spin for a minute or two, probably, stop for a few moments, regain my bearings, and go at it again. I got a little dizzy from it, but never to the point that I'd feel sick or want to vomit (in fact, motion doesn't bother me at all). The only reason I stopped was because we moved to a considerably smaller place. The merry-go-round was a close second to the swings when it came to my most favorite part of the playground. To this day, I have a fondness for spinning chairs or stools. If I'm in a spinny office chair, I'll often spin partway to one side, then partway to the other.

I do it when I'm in the pool a lot. (Actually, I've realized that I stim a lot more in general when I'm in the pool...) I always feel immensely sick and dizzy afterwards though... Trying to get out of that habit.

In my Biology class, we have those types of chairs too, and I'm always either rocking back and forth in them (because the legs are uneven) or spinning partly from left to right.

I'm not sure if I spun as a child though...

What's that? I'm too busy spinning in my chair to respond!

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I'm done. Yeah I spin... alot. Love myself some spinning office chairs. I have another chair but it doesn't spin well so it's in the Corner of Shame in my living room, collecting oodles of dust. I used to spin around in circles until I fell as a child, good times. We also have those spinning stools in my biology labs and they rock. I don't care what people think when I spin and/or rock on them.

I don't know if I spin more than NTs do, but I often spin if I sit in a chair/on a stool which can spin. I used to spin quite a bit as a child. But don't all children do that?

When I was young, I used to spin until I fell into the couch. I had forgotten about that until recently when I read about spinning being a stim. I tried it and found it very helpful in calming my nerves.

I did this until my early twenties and always to music. Whenever I spun, my head always rested on my right shoulder and my arms were extended. I was able do it for hours.

Strange but I have never ever gotten ill from it. Just mild dizziness.

I like to spin myself and eberrything else. When I go to the store with iMother, she shops, and I spin something in the store.

I used to do it a lot as a child, and I still do it, just not as frequently. If I'm in one of those office chairs that turns I will often spin in it. I do that a lot in the office chair in my room while reading.

I do this a lot, too. If I come across a spinning display/rack in a store I will often just stand there and spin it until someone I'm with walks off.

I still spin sometimes especially when I am really really really hyper excited and happy at the same time.

In my dreams I do spin alot, endlessly.
And used to as a child, though not for quite as long.

I was thinking no, but then, I saw it, it's so established I don't see it anymore. Ever since ipods, I can "get away with" it since it looks like dancing. Although most people don't dance to their ipods. Well, not people my age. I'm "too old" to act that way. Well, "act" is the sort of word NTs like to employ.

I'd totally forgotten about it, but yes, I did spin as a child. I'd spin around and around in the backyard and in the living room. Then Dad hung a swing off a tree in the backyard. I loved to swing, but equally I loved to twist it around as tightly as it would go so that I would spin one way then the other until the spin ran out of momentum. It's not spinning, but we had a rocking chair that I loved - as soon as I can, I'm getting one!

I always thought all kids loved to spin. Do people with autism spin more?

I used to spin in circles in a corner of the playground at recess in grade school. That was what got me labelled by the other kids as "other", but the adults never really took notice. It was a small town in the 80's, so I guess I was too verbal to be on anyone's autism radar back then. I would do it for the entire 30 minute recess period - either spinning, or walking back and forth along the fence running my hand along the chain link.

I also enjoy watching things spin. The only reason I still have my very old cell phone is that it spins really nicely. Also, I was participating in a study a few weeks ago and I was supposed to be answering questions on the computer, but I could also see the computer fan spinning inside the computer and was drawn to watching that instead of the screen.

I did when I was kid, but not now. I just assumed all kids did this?

Spinning office chairs. Until now, I had forgotten all about them. I had my own well into my teenage years, a dull black one made of very sturdy material, and my persistent spinning broke off the armrests and damaged the chair's mechanics. Spinning helped to keep me occupied in unspectacular hours.

I spun before I was given that office chair too. When I broke my mother's flower pots and green plants, I was never to do it again in the living-room. Handstands were barred from all rooms but my own as well as I later found out when I broke more plants and decorations.

I spin a little every now and then, being too grown-up/tall to do some serious spinning anywhere but outside and in gyms. Round and round and done. No risks involved and it's accepted almost everywhere.

I did that too on my swing (which is no more these days, R.I.P. Mr Swing) in our backyard. From the moment they decided I was "old enough" to not fall off and would let me sit on the swing on my own, I would swing and spin on the swing for hours until the sky took on a dark tinge and I'd be hurried inside to have dinner.