What is Stimming? | Why it’s Important ✨How I Stim✨

[@RatsPicklesandMusic]

"Your body will remember." It's true!!!

[@Hollyofgrowth]

Hello I’m super high masking. You’ve helped me realize this because every single stim I’ve done I got in trouble or yelled at for my whole life. Thank you for your videos because it’s helping me healing so much of my childhood where I was physically hurt by a teacher for my Stims. I struggled with homework because of being overwhelmed and no stimming allowed. I learned to mask by mimicking the body language, attitudes, and voices of others. I’ve been learning in the last 4 months I’m fully safe to take off the mask and simply just be. Your videos are so darn healing to watch and connect back all the dots of things I’ve suppressed by whole life with ADHD and I am almost sure Autism. However my dad didn’t believe in it or care to dig. But my whole life I’ve felt at war with my brain and body. No one could help me. So I’ve learned to just live with it. Which created not good things in my body. A lot of this is helping me to realize also what happened during my military service and every moment of my life. So many AH HA moments. Wow. Thank you 🙏😭

[@GemmasJourneyGrace]

hey Alexis this topic does not get covered enough , i totally agree with what your saying :) your so easy to listen to :)

[@AuthenticallyAlexis2023]

Thank you! Yes I agree.

[@joanfosburg5173]

Speaking of Ah-ha moments, I just recognized that my cousin Ginny was autistic. We spent a lot of time together as kids and remember her mom constantly criticizing her stimming. I did not know it was stimming (probably her mom didn't either) - just thought it was strange movements. Probably her mom didn't know she was autistic. Back then, those things (like mental illnesses of all sorts) were hidden. Ginny is gone now but I wish we could have a talk. I think the masking of her stimming did cause a lot of problems for her. Thanks for revealing these things to me.

[@RatsPicklesandMusic]

Who else was subconsciously mirroring her stims a little bit? Haha

[@CalmintheChaosHomeschool]

Ok… my big question… so I’m homeschooling mom to 4. I have 2 with ADHD and one with autism and one neurotypical. My child with autism vocally stims… a lot… not loud but super distracting when we are trying to do schoolwork. The kids with ADHD are easily distracted. No one wants to do school in a different room, so we are all together. I don’t want to constantly ask him to stop, but is so hard. He does this when he’s fine… Like not angry, just working, and so constant… any suggestions?

[@AuthenticallyAlexis2023]

So it sounds like he is regulating himself. My first thing to try would be to school and at different times of the day. But that’s not always possible. Have you tried fidget toys? Perhaps he could fill his stomach needs with some thing that doesn’t make noise for the easily distractible kids. ❤️

[@johnnycash5520]

I would have the crud knocked out of me for fidgeting as a child also when I be getting beat I would stem and so I would get beat some more and I would also be beat and slapped around for not looking my dad in the eye