Stimming in public

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Recently, I have started stimming whenever I feel like it. I go down a street flapping my hands, with a self confident face and a smile.
If parents who try to restrict stimming use social norm as the reason, my response is: let's make the world a place where stimming is socially acceptable. Why not? No one gets harmed. There is nothing in the Bible against stimming nor in any other established religion I know of. Let's make the world a place where you can just go down a street and stim.

And I found out I'm living in such a place. No one gave me even a dirty look for it, no one protested, I get served at stores and restaurants, I do all the things I need to.

Is it urban Poland? Or maybe the dirty looks I used to get were more a reaction to my anxiety and once I got rid of my anxiety, people sense it and accept the way I am?

Just a tiny thing I can do to make the world a bit more autistic-friendly place.

Stimming with style

Sounds like a plan. Maybe that is why I wear blue tinted mirrored glasses. They work and people are friendlier.

You've got my support, Magz!!

Awhile ago I was in the grocery store and there was a young boy who came in with his mother. The boy ran ahead of his mother with a smile on his face, wildly hand flapping and making a squealing noise. It brought joy to my heart. How ANYONE would want to quell that kind of behavior I'll never understand.