Saying phrases when I'm anxious.

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When I think about something that makes me nervous, I tend to say certain phrases to calm down. Not mantras or anything. Random stuff. Like I used to say the names of my pets, and that I loved them. They've since passed on, but I still do it.

I have OCD, but I don't know if it's a compulsion. It doesn't have to do with saying anything to neutralize something bad or to stop something bad from happening. It's just a natural thing.

I don't know if this is related to Autism? I'm not certain.

A stim perhaps?

If it's really a phase to say in order for you to calm down, it's likely instinctively normal.

The same can be said with different movements and actions to help someone to calm down. That includes stimming and seemingly random stuff.


But if you're really asking if the reactions' behavior itself is autistic... It's possible.
The same can be said with conspicuous stims, repeated stuff, familiar settings, etc.
Autistic rooted ways to calm a person down.


Yet even individual NTs can have seemingly odd ways to calm themselves down.

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