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23 Mar 2018, 5:00 pm

I'm curious - are there people on here who stim and have NOT been on psychotropic medications?

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23 Mar 2018, 5:31 pm

I stim a lot and only took medikinet for about 10 days several years ago (stopped taking it because the side effects were too extreme for me). I stimmed a lot long before I ever took it as well.

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23 Mar 2018, 6:13 pm

For the first 18 years of my life I stimmed without drugs.

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24 Mar 2018, 3:08 am

I've never had any drugs like that and I stim, although it's mostly just when my emotions are getting the better of me.

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24 Mar 2018, 3:34 am

I have always stimmed a lot, without knowing it was stimming, and have never been on any medication (apart form occasional anti-biotics).

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24 Mar 2018, 7:19 am

I stim all the time and I don't even take over the counter medications of any sort. Not even tylenol or cold or cough syrup. Everybody stims, it's just that most people who are not Autistic don't call it stimming. They usually call it fidgeting. And when Autistics stim it tends to be bigger and more intense and not the typical movements that nts use when they fidgit.

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24 Mar 2018, 12:11 pm

Absolutely. I stim a lot (although not the classic rocking or hand flapping), and have never been on psychotropic medications.

I pull my face, pull my eyebrows out, bite my fingers and arms (not hard enough to really hurt), bite my nails, bite the hair off my arm, flap my fingers, pace, rub my arm on my face, blow air into the sleeve of my arm, and many other things.

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25 Mar 2018, 10:07 am

Thanks!

Has anyone managed to stop for a while, or noticed any patterns in the sorts of things they do?

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25 Mar 2018, 3:33 pm

NobodyKnows wrote:

Has anyone managed to stop for a while, or noticed any patterns in the sorts of things they do?

If I consciously think about it, it's easy enough to avoid. But if I'm not paying attention, it starts up again.

I've had moderate degrees of success stopping specific stims, but others tend to take their place. Specifically with the nail biting, I've been trying to stop for years, and what I've found happens is that, instead of biting my nails, I end up scraping my teeth against the bottom of my fingernail. This irritates it, which will invariably lead to me eventually biting it off unless I carry nail clippers with me and cut it off very shot before I eventually give in to biting it.

As for patterns, I can definitely say that what stims I do does seem to vary depending on the situation I'm in. At work, it's nail biting. Talking on the phone or waiting for a bus, it's pacing. When walking, it's going to be flapping my fingers or otherwise fiddling with them.

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25 Mar 2018, 4:28 pm

My leg bounces when I sit or I am doing something with my fingers instead. I usually twirl a pen in public. No, I am not on any form of drugs.

Like this, all though I practice other techniques to change it up. Perfectly acceptable to do in public, if you don't make noise or lots of movement.

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25 Mar 2018, 4:37 pm

NobodyKnows wrote:

I'm curious - are there people on here who stim and have NOT been on psychotropic medications?

What kind of question is this for an autism forum? :lol:

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25 Mar 2018, 7:41 pm

I have not been on any kind of psychotropic medication, nor has it ever been suggested that I know of.

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25 Mar 2018, 7:57 pm

I stim for whatever purpose. :lol:
And not any form of psych meds ever taken in this entire lifetime (22 years).

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27 Mar 2018, 6:18 pm

SplendidSnail wrote:

I've had moderate degrees of success stopping specific stims, but others tend to take their place.

I've had exactly the same experience.

What I notice is that my senses seem to shut down if I don't constantly stimulate them. That's the most striking side-effect when I force myself to stop stimming for any prolonged period of time.

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