Can playing guitar be stimming?

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I asked my (PDD-NOS) best friend about this, and after asking me what stimming was he got this huge grin on his face, and said

Yes.

I think so too, but I wonder if it's too complex to fit the technical definition. . . Though it does sort of feel the same.

I carry mine around with me for this reason when I'm feeling low. . .

I can sorta be that way with the ukulele.

Years ago, I would play it constantly for several hours at a time through an Orange halfstack. --Luckily there wasn't that much opposition to my playing as I lived in a slum at the time. --I haven't played much recently as my not only my amps need to repaired, but I also need to get another speaker cabinet and a new cord, as I've traced the speaker cable to be separated.

It occurs to me now that I've written the survey badly. . . of course playing guitar isn't always stimming. . .

Anything you are doing that stimulates you is stimming.

I would say yes/sometimes. I used to like playing table tennis, I would often get the kitchen table and, put it up against the wall and then bang the ball against the wall, much like one of those boxer's punch bags. I never realized that it was a stimm until someone else pointed it out. Its a physical and mental repetition/cycling that sooths.

Other stimms could include: Cycling, weight training, running, skipping rope, a treadmill, boxing a punch bag

and even playing the piano as Glen Gould demonstrates...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB76jxBq_gQ[/youtube]

I have no guitar playing abilities. I sing, though. I'm not the next American Idol, but I'm okay. And I like to grill. I'm not the next Top Chef, but I'm okay at it. I hate regular cooking, though.

Nice flick, Diamonddavej

I'm not musical. I had tests for my dyslexia and found I'm smartest at block design. When I get stressed I do really basic things on my computer like play Freecell for ages (It's a kind of really simple block design task), I think it really focuses my attention away from my stress. So am I stimming? Is that what stimming is? diverting attention. So it could be anything.

In Dicken's A Tale of Two Cities the girls father was locked up in the Bastille for years, all he did was mend shoes. In the book it says whenever he felt stressed (after he was released) he would disappear off and mend shoes, so he was stimming? diverting his mind away from his stress?

In which case stimming is not just something for people with AS, just a person who immerses themselves in something "to occupy their mind" away from their stress?