Have you ever been punished for stimming?

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Not sure if i ever really got punished for stimming. But definatly for things that I couldn't control, like speaking with a loud voice (I would forget all the time) or not knowing how to whisper (I'm still terrible at it) or my very poor handwriting (dysgraphia anyone?).

Also for things that I did without meaning to or that I really loved that was strange. I would crawl on the floor all of the time, sometimes acting like a dog or cat and my parents would go ballistic, especially if there was other family or company around. Or for liking to play with strange things, or not wanting to through away a random item (string, a bottle cap, etc.)

Does getting into trouble for other people stealing your stim and doing it count? (I didn't realize this was even a stim until someone else posted that it was theirs).

I eat sunflower seeds. Tons of them. I have singlehandedly kept Planters in business for the last 30 years! Ok, I exaggerate, but I eat a lot of sunflower seeds.

I got really good at eating them in such a way that I could eat them during class and no problems, because I was really quiet about it. Until grade eleven. Suddenly other kids in school started eating them and rather than being discreet and throwing out the shells, they are dropping them all over the school. Needless to say, they made me stop eating my sunflower seeds.

I spent all of grade eleven pen chewing... yuck.

Talking loud was a stim for me.

i have been crawling on floor too about time when i was in kindergarden..for me it was play

When I'm not doing anything else, I'm pacing.
And I often get yelled at for pacing in the prescence of my parents.
I don't stomp, I don't pace in front of the televison, so what's the big deal?
Pacing is completely harmless, yet many people have a problem with it.

Once in elementary school a classmate of mine (who was a jerk anyway) said he hated me because my voice was too loud. Or maybe he said he didn't like me because my voice was too loud; not sure.

Here are my stims, though I'm sure I forgot a few:

Talking (does that count as a stim? I hope not), talking too loud, pacing/walking around in circles, singing, biting and chewing my nails, biting my cheeks, tapping, clicking and/or grinding my teeth (which sometimes triggers headaches), frequently adjusting my position (from sitting to leaning to leaning the other way to sitting to lying on my side), chewing pens, chewing my sleeves, zipping-up the zipper on my shirt with me teeth, feeling things (the desk, the book, the binder, etc.), touching my face, touching my hair, putting my head against my knees, putting my teeth against my knees (sometimes biting my knees), bending staples and paper-clips, popping bubble-wrap, doing something and then doing it again with the other hand (to make it even), switching hands when carrying something (to make it even), making verbal noises (click, clock, mpeh, mpah, etc.), 'swushing' my saliva, sitting the wrong way or lying on my side, pulling up my socks, stretching and 'clenching' muscles, moving my legs in and out (||, \/, ||, \/, etc.), tapping my feet, staring at the ground between my knees, looking at the people around me (making sure they're not looking at me), and (the most socially unacceptable habit [that I feel comfortable mentioning] which I only do in private) picking my nose.

When I was living with my parents, all the time...

I have never been punished for stimming, but people have called me names when I have started stimming in the past.