Wow, I'm learning alot about my self reading this stuff. I really like to pace while talking to myself, but as my appartment isn't big enough for that I haven't done it lately. I tend to pop my knuckles allot, recently I've been grabing an inch of fat/muscle on my left peck and I'll hang on to that until I realize that I'm doing it. I grind my teeth, I do the whole leg vibrate thing, on ocasion I'll rock, but not too often, I whistle, sing, hum, etc., I have this thing I like to do with my teeth, where I tap my finger nail on them or chomp my jaws down to make a clacking noise and I'm able to change the note and make a tune out of it. One that I like to do when I'm around friends is to breath in while constricting my throat, it makes a high pitch sound kind of like what I imagine a pterodactyl sounded like. My friends think I'm weird, but I enjoy watching their reactions.
Icarus_Falling wrote:
For my most notably bizarre stim, when I was younger I would lay face-down in bed and bounce my face off the pillow to a particular rhythm, often whilst humming loudly whatever music is playing in my mind; this action provides stim relief similar to rocking. (<- Does anyone else do this??
When I read this my jaw dropped. I did in deed do this as a kid. I never even realized it was anything more than being a weird kid. It's bizare that such a specific stim would be done by two totaly different kids that never met. for some reason I liked the feeling of my nose hitting the pillow, where it kind of gets smooshed and the cartilage inside gives a little bit.
24 Mar 2008, 7:12 pm
