When I was a child I often blinked my eyes, rubbed the back of my head against the car seat or looked an my knees and up again several times. I always thought those were tics but the might have been stims all along. You once asked for video ideas in one of your videos so here is one: How Covid and quarantine influenced you and other autistics. I think I lost a lot of masking skills and realized how I was different. Maybe the main reason why I even seeked a diagnosis. Keep up your great videos, really love them
Just randomly came across your videos via reddit and I’m loving them, this one especially. I’ve just turned 24 (male) and I’m half way through getting my late diagnosis in the U.K. but when I look back I had so many stims as a kid, nail biting, twisting my fingers, playing with laces etc and I often sat in weird positions to stretch my legs, still do it… I too also loved being tucked in tight to sleep better but that slowly faded out, I definitely still like something weighted on me to sleep well. I’m looking forward to seeing more great videos!
I have bounced my leg since I can remember. I get accused of being anxious a lot when I'm not because of it and told to "calm down" when I'm already feeling fine. Ironically, I hide my anxiety a lot and others aren't aware of it much of the time.
I’m not autistic, but I stim a lot, and when I was younger I used to go around tap dancing while I walked in the grocery store and a bunch of other places, I feel like tap dancing is a great stim.
Your cat's theme tunes! 😹 Oh how I relate lmao! 😂💓 All the dogs in my life MUST'VE noticed that I'm different to all the other humans, because of things just like this 🤣❤ I may have one much wanted video request 🙈 Take it or leave it ofc! I deal a lot with demand avoidance 😖 I've heard that Pathological Demand Avoidance and/or Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) can be commonly seen with autism. Case in point - my support worker from the Shaw Trust has just asked me about a work vacancy. I'm in autistic burnout and do have a lot of trauma from all my past jobs, and I felt immediately like I wish I could dissappear just so nobody could expect anything of me. All this was triggered by this job vacancy 🤦🏻♀️ This is just one example, I dread and avoid quite literally everything! The few autistic people that I've met in my life, I've noticed similar responses in them to demands and responsibilities too. I'm sure it's all anxiety based (as so many of us are blessed with constant anxiety 🙈) but if this is something that you relate to at all - the demand avoidance followed by the guilt etc, I think a video about it articulated by you could help a lot of people 🙂 It's just a request though, not a demand lmao! 😄 No pressure at all 😃 Brilliant video as always, Dana 😁 Your videos keep my attention from start to finish! It's hard to find too many things that can do that for me lmao 🙈 Take care of yourself 😊
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When I was a child I often blinked my eyes, rubbed the back of my head against the car seat or looked an my knees and up again several times. I always thought those were tics but the might have been stims all along.
You once asked for video ideas in one of your videos so here is one: How Covid and quarantine influenced you and other autistics. I think I lost a lot of masking skills and realized how I was different. Maybe the main reason why I even seeked a diagnosis.
Keep up your great videos, really love them
Just randomly came across your videos via reddit and I’m loving them, this one especially. I’ve just turned 24 (male) and I’m half way through getting my late diagnosis in the U.K. but when I look back I had so many stims as a kid, nail biting, twisting my fingers, playing with laces etc and I often sat in weird positions to stretch my legs, still do it… I too also loved being tucked in tight to sleep better but that slowly faded out, I definitely still like something weighted on me to sleep well.
I’m looking forward to seeing more great videos!
I have bounced my leg since I can remember. I get accused of being anxious a lot when I'm not because of it and told to "calm down" when I'm already feeling fine. Ironically, I hide my anxiety a lot and others aren't aware of it much of the time.
I’m not autistic, but I stim a lot, and when I was younger I used to go around tap dancing while I walked in the grocery store and a bunch of other places, I feel like tap dancing is a great stim.
Your cat's theme tunes! 😹 Oh how I relate lmao! 😂💓 All the dogs in my life MUST'VE noticed that I'm different to all the other humans, because of things just like this 🤣❤
I may have one much wanted video request 🙈 Take it or leave it ofc! I deal a lot with demand avoidance 😖 I've heard that Pathological Demand Avoidance and/or Avoidant Personality Disorder (AvPD) can be commonly seen with autism.
Case in point - my support worker from the Shaw Trust has just asked me about a work vacancy. I'm in autistic burnout and do have a lot of trauma from all my past jobs, and I felt immediately like I wish I could dissappear just so nobody could expect anything of me. All this was triggered by this job vacancy 🤦🏻♀️
This is just one example, I dread and avoid quite literally everything! The few autistic people that I've met in my life, I've noticed similar responses in them to demands and responsibilities too.
I'm sure it's all anxiety based (as so many of us are blessed with constant anxiety 🙈) but if this is something that you relate to at all - the demand avoidance followed by the guilt etc, I think a video about it articulated by you could help a lot of people 🙂
It's just a request though, not a demand lmao! 😄 No pressure at all 😃
Brilliant video as always, Dana 😁 Your videos keep my attention from start to finish! It's hard to find too many things that can do that for me lmao 🙈 Take care of yourself 😊
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