What Stim Toys Do You Use?

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I enjoy collecting stim toys; I have a shoebox full of them. My favourites include anything rubbery or fluid-filled, like splat balls or silly putty. I have a giant five-pount gel ball-filled stress ball which feels really cool. I'm also a fan of tangles, little plastic fidgets made of curved plastic links; I have the original, fuzzy, and hairy ones, fuzzy is my favourite. One of my less entertaining but more useful "toys" is an oral motor rubber chew in the shape of a lollipop. I wish I'd had it when I was younger; it would have spared many pencils a merciless death.

What sorts of stim toys do you collect and find effective?

I just use my work pass. It's on a lanyard and I flick it backwards and forwards between my fingers. I also like to pull the pass out and let the auto retraction thingamajig pull it back up.

Also, I don't know if you can class fingers as stim toys but I'm a wolf biter (Dermatophagia)! I'm almost constantly biting & picking the skin around my fingers. You should see them. It's a massacre! I don't even know I'm doing it half the time.

Fingers = 'built-in stim toys'

I have a series of stress balls at my desk. Like, so many that my co-worker gave me a Pac-Man themed one for Xmas a few weeks ago.

I also make sure to get one of those plastic stir sticks every time I get coffee and mangle the heck out of it with my teeth. I'm trying to cut down on that, though, as it's probably not good for my teeth. My latest chewing stim toy is a necklace from Stimtastic. It's durable and feels much better on the teeth.

I have several drawers full of them - everything from squishy things to clippy things to large lugnuts to things that go "click". Used to really like one I had which was like a big rubbery sea anemone but I lost that one.

1) An assortment of stress balls with different fillings - gel, beans, rice, foam etc.
2) Rubber bouncy balls and hacky sacks.
3) A collection of keys - I like feeling the grooves.
4) A large, copper slinky toy. Love the sound and feel.
5) A shoebox sized collection of snippets of ribbon, cord, lace, silk, grosgrain, velvet etc.
6) I've recently discovered kinetic sand and I have a large tub full, as well as tiny rakes, buckets and toys to make moulds and imprints, but mostly I just like running it through my fingers.
7) Small, smooth rocks which I carry in my pocket.

I don't have stim toys... per se, but I do have plushies. My Sebastian plush is my main focus right now because I associated him with my hero/fangirl crush PelleK. <3 Anyway, I really like smell my plushies, banging them around and stuff like that. I'm not sure if it really counts as actual stimming or not though... but yeah. They are more like comfort objects.

I don't have any objects, I (like others) use parts of me . . . not that!

I'm constantly fiddling with individual hairs on my chin; getting them in between thumb and forefinger, "folding" them so I can feel them "click" when they straighten out, or twisting them to feel them rolling against the tiny grooves on my fingertips. I've only done this since I've been able to, as in have proper facial hair(!) But something I've done as far back as I can remember, as a child and still do now is to "chew" the skin halfway down my fingers, but with my lips covering my teeth; again to feel it fold and pop back into shape. There are other weird clicks and fiddles I d with my fingers but those are by far the most common.

I use a pencil that I spin around my fingers. You should see it, half the paint has rubbed off it. If I can't find it I feel somewhat lost, and this happens quite frequently as I drop it over and over and over again... much to the annoyance of anyone around me. I'll get a look and I'll stop, as I don't want to annoy anyone. Then minutes later I'm doing it again!

A bike handle i found on my way back from work. I slap it against my palm.

People Are Weird (said the man that picks and chews his fingers until they bleed - and then keeps going)

I've always chewed on plastic bottle caps, the rings around the necks of coke bottles, straws, etc etc. I was amazed to discover that this was a symptom of autism. I don't really have any specific toys for chewing, I just go to town on whatever is in reach. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had to suffer the indignity of regularly finding themselves with a mouthful of pen ink as a child/adolescent. I just remembered chewing a silver pen in music class once in high school; oh the hilarity.

My stim toys are more musical instruments; piano, guitar, tabla, anything that occupies both hands and hemispheres. Improvising on new motifs and melodies keeps my brain interested and firing in new and novel ways.
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My stim toys have become larger and more complex over the years. Some of my favorites still in use:

1) Neck/Shoulder massager I keep next to my bed.

2) Folded Mat massager (I now use in my driver's seat)

3) 40lb Weighted Blanket. I love sleeping starfish style underneath.

4) Inversion Table, so I can hang up-side-down for a few minutes at a time.

5) Massage Roller

As you might tell, I'm very touch focused when it comes to stim toys.

I recently sold my massage helmet. It was too rough on my head, but I like the idea of simultaneously massaging the back of the head, the top, and the front lobe.

I have some kinetic sand, though I haven't used it in a while. My partner also gave me a spring bracelet to play with, and just this past christmas they gave me a worry stone that I love a lot.