habbit and stimmin arent professional

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wut dose dis
even mean
is biting ur nails not ok

wut dose
PROFESSIONAL mean

now habits
are not ok
really

answer if
u can

It just means that adults tend to find it weird for another adult to bite his/her nails.

"Professional" people are supposed not to bite their nails in public.

A habit is a repeated behavior. Brushing your teeth after every meal is habit with many. Its not necessarily a "stim".

A "stim" is something you do with your body to relieve tension. It can also be a habit.

Habits can be good, bad, or neither. Stims are usually thought of as symptoms of disorders. But arent the worst things in the world.

Stims and habits are outwardly similar (because folks do both repeatidly), but how did you get the word "professional" into this trio of words?

The word "professional" is the adjective form of "profession" which means a "high skilled occupation".

You ask a doctor for his "professional" advice on your health, or a lawyer for his professional opinion on the law.

Niether stims, nor habits, are commonly decribed as being "professional" in nature.

I guess-like the above poster said- if you want to act 'professional' in the workplace you dont want to be seen to being doing stims.

I know adults who bite their nails and don't have any disorder, as far as I know. Is nail-biting bothering someone in your life, Random1?

Many people bite their nails in private (including myself).

But it's really not seen as being okay to bite your nails in public. People associate biting nails with nervousness and with childishness. People think it's an inappropriate behavior, similar to, but not quite like passing gas in public.

"Professionals" have to restrain themselves from doing certain things; otherwise, people will not think of them as being "professional" enough to respect them.

Of course Naturalplastic is right. A "professional" is usually a person who has a degree in the "professions"--like doctors, lawyers, psychologists, accountants, etc.--and who work at these professions.

People who aren't "professional" by definition have the tendency to want to act "professional" and to be seen as having a "professional" manner about them. They also want to associate with people who have these characteristics, and do not want to associate with people who don't have these characteristics.

If you're in a work environment, bouncing would probably be seen as being inappropriate.

If you're at a baseball game or something, bouncing is quite appropriate.

When you are at work, you are working, and you have to have a professional manner about you. You have to dress more formally than normal--in dress slacks and button-down shirts, for example.

When you're at a baseball game, you're not working--you're playing, so to speak. So you can do things like bounce and stim at the baseball game. You can dress less formally--in tee-shirts and jeans, for example.

What most people describe as "Professional" has something to do with self presentation than job description and competence.

Even owning a high pitched voice might mistook you for being unprofessional.

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Think of biting your nails the same as picking your nose. Some things are meant to be done in private, instead of in front of people.

There all kinds of habits/stims that people do in private. Including NT people.
That are not acceptable to do in public.

I don't know what you mean by bouncing though. Is that like bouncing whilst sitting in a chair? Or jumping up and down?

At my last job, I couldn't bite my nails, which was hard to control, but I could wiggle my foot as long as it wasn't shaking the table or making noise. I could also sometimes rub my hands together real quick under the desk occasionally without anyone noticing while I was thinking really hard about an answer to a question.

However, the stims I got away with were still risky. They are not professional but I cannot think clearly or get through serious conversation without stimming.

I feel very unemployable because of it.

I stim my entire hour and a half long commute. Then I take breaks and stim on my own during the work day. I feel like a breastfeeding mother shamed into feeding her baby in a bathroom stall. Stimming helps me to get through my day but our corporate clients are not ready to face the truth that is Autism.