I have a stimmy question

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I have AS and am very stimmy. My 6 year old has not yet been diagnosed....still waiting to get our appointment. He does normal stimmy stuff like pace, twirl his hair, rock back and forth on his feet, and chew on his shirt, blanket and his medical ID necklace. He also does this "Play" type of stimming where he is clearly in his head "daydreaming" but moving physically to it. He makes sound effects and jumps around and makes wild movements with his arms and legs. He does this no matter where we are and could care less if people are staring. I think most of the time he is being a pokemon or a bokugon....or Luke Skywalker. I think when I was a kid....and actually sometimes now I would do movements that coincided with what I was daydreaming about. I just wondered how many other kids did this and if this is typical?
Thanks

Ohhh....god, when people saw me playing (almost always by myself) as a kid, I am sure they thought I was weird, crazy, talking to ghosts, winding up invisible crank radios, talking in nonsense languages, or later, in bad foreign accents, singing opera, pretending to teleport, whatever. I don't think it's technically stimming if it involves imaginative play.

I did the other stuff too....like waving pieces of paper around until my mom said "you'll get a paper cut" or I...got a paper cut. Or putting my fingers in and out of my ears to hear the weird difference in the ambient sounds over and over...

I don't know if this is normal childhood stuff or not. I don't think I had a normal childhood. I think for me, by the time I was about 10 or 11 I learned to control it a little better or be beaten and humiliated, but in my mind's eye, that was what moving from private to public school was all about....

It's definitely an aspie thing, but pound it into his head obsessively about not doing it in public. The sound effects probably are something going on in the environment in his head, and the movements could be random, or a specific character movement of whatever's going on in his head. Don't pull the plug on it completly, if it's what I'm thinking of it is VERY important to him. Just try as hard as you can to get him to not do it in public.

I do it too, I'm an aspie kid, and even though I'm not allowed to do it in public I still do it at home. (I'm 14, it started when it was between 4-6 years old)

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phew, and here i thought i was the only one that did that.

Now for the on topic part.

I did that too as a kid. I stopped myself from doing it in school. Still do it a little nowadays but its more hand gestures that go along with the dialog in my head.

I think its normal for kids under the spectrum to do that stuff but by the time I was 9 or 10 I hid my odd stims and only did it in private.. I don't do any of the stuff I used to do now but I still do things like bite my nails, shake my leg while sitting, and probably other things that I do not realize I am doing.. but at the same time nothing all that unusual either.