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Ally023
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05 Jan 2019, 10:37 pm

I rub my navel a lot especially to comfort myself. I this considered a stim? Does anyone else do this?



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07 Jan 2019, 5:32 am

I don't. But, whatever you do to positively stimulate would be a stim.



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07 Jan 2019, 9:06 am

It's not what you do but why you do it that makes it a stim. If what you do is for the same reason and has the same effect as more conventional stimming, then it's stimming. Even if you're the only one who does it.