Stimming When You Are Sick

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Do you stim more when you are sick such as having the flu?

I don't know that I had ever thought of that but I would say no. Stim activity certainly doesn't increase and it may well decrease during such a time of physical illness.

I think I stim less. It might depend on how I felt, though.

i dont stim..i jsut lying around and cant look anyone in eye etc--

I sometimes stim less when I'm sick, other times more or the same, it depends on the kind of sick really.

When I was at the hospital recently (and coming in and out of delirium) I stimmed less in terms of repetitive movements (although I think I was thrashing around a lot so maybe not), but was way more attached to grabbing onto hard objects for sensory stability than usual. I had to be pried off of the bedrails at one point for an ultrasound exam, because my senses were going haywire and I was grabbing onto the rail as the only physically stable thing in this sea of nonsensical and very soft input that I felt like I was drowning in. I also grabbed onto the puke bucket and wouldn't let go for the same reason. I really hated whenever I was made to let go of those things, because I could not maintain any kind of cognitive stability otherwise, and then I'd get seasick from all the moving and changing things and start vomiting.

So I guess instead of my usual forms of stimming I was way more into "grab hard object and don't let go", whereas normally, while I do that, it's not so intense unless I'm extremely overloaded.

A lot of the time stimming hwen sick made me feel better, except when I was so sick I oly felt halfway decent when I was asleep or something.

I stim more when I'm sick. When I'm sick, I just want to sleep, read a book, watch TV, play a video game, or do whatever I need to do, and rest as much as possible. When I run up a fever or get a headache, I lose a bit of my control and I catch myself stimming. Normally I don't stim, unless I let myself, and when I'm ill, I can't control myself as well.

i'm totally restless when im sick. yes

I stim less. Probably because I'm asleep most of the time when I'm sick.