I'm a teacher of neurodivergent children. I found out in my second year teaching them that I was both autistic and have ADHD. I learned this at the age of 26. I was beaten and mocked by my mother to control what I didn't know were "stims". I was so comfortable with my students i started swimming with them. And one of my new students who was so shy and sad got so excited and started smiling and stimming with me. This was also after I infodumped about black capped chickadees. I love my students so much. I love teaching kids with a brain similar to mine. We both can finally be free ❤️
I would have LOVED neurodivergent teachers growing up, that sounds like such an amazing environment. I'm going into the marine biology field and my dream job is to teach kids about the sea, as it's my main special interest and I find teaching kids so rewarding
7:08 "You're not necessarily physically tired you're just really overstimulated." Ahh, this actually answers a curiosity I always had because I didn't recall having a ton of meltdowns or shutdowns when I was a kid when I was thinking back for my assessment. They were there, but it seemed to be more frequent for a lot of people in response to sensory triggers. But when I thought back, my response to the overstimulation triggers they talked about was to go to sleep. Too hot? Too Cold? Too Hungry? Too Full? Too much happening? Too Loud? Whatever it was, just curl up and sleep through it. Just escape into unconscious oblivion or perhaps dreams, just get out of this chaos. So interesting. I'll be mulling this for a while. Thank you
Me too! I always went to my room after school and fell asleep. Sometimes I tried to listen to some music and accidentally fell asleep on the floor in front of my stereo. I was so exhausted.
Sleeping was my main coping mechanism too. In my old age that doesn't really work anymore, sadly. I have to be awake enough to take care of myself physically and sleeping too long gives me various aches and pains.
i'm glad that even at 6 y.o., when school faculty were not-so-charitable in judging me for fidgeting and tried to control it. i had enough self-respect to tell them i wasn't hurting nobody & to mind their own business. i'd genuinely tried being respectful and nicer prior to this encounter, but was treated like garbage anyway. So i became more abrasive to that kind of attitude.
So glad we're talking about this because covert stims tend to become very harmful to me. When I go to work I play this performance of the most wacky zany version of myself because I NEED to stim freely, and it becomes more acceptable, but compensating in that way becomes so exhausting.. We need a society that accepts that part of me that needs the regulation that comes with my meowing and noises and pivoting and running around!!!
Do you also meow whenever you see a cat? I just realized that was a stim I never knew that. But whenever I see a cat I just want to meow at them (including my own)
Omg yes! i always feel like I need to become the stereotype so people would accept me actually being neurodivergent and having days where I just cannot function or even on day to day life having things that I cannot do
I felt this!! I have always focused on being still. At 43 I JUST started letting myself sing and dance in the car. It’s like you don’t want to be seen looking weird.
Singing, listening to music, dancing is my go to stimming and I notice when I can’t belt it out and play music super loud, (which I can’t because I live in an effing apt) I get very very angry and anxious and I hate people so much more.
❤ I agree that we need to stim. Walking, crafting, sitting in a rocking chair, and writing (and doodling during a meeting) are some of my favorite ones. 🥰
4:31 'All of which is to say you have to start stimming, you just have to...' Caught me so off guard... then my body was like... OK! *flapflap* Hahaha 🤣
@@andreasara8876 A practical exercise is Qigong shaking, you will find lots of video examples. Imagine your body is releasing tension and releasing any difficult emotions.
You describing how you process just smell… oh my god, that is exactly how my brain works. I have not had anyone break down my thoughts so clearly like that before. This all happens in the moment someone says hi, and it always takes me a second before I respond back.
One thing that is highly to be recommended as far as stimming is to have a young autistic child "mentor" you. In other words, match their energy, do what you see them doing. Not only does it put you in much better touch with your stimming instinct (and I say this as a low-masker with plenty of stims that carried over into adulthood), but it also lets the child see an adult that acts like they do.
I've lost count of how many times I've felt overwhelmed by boundless energy, unsure how to process or release it-like nothing could help. I used to think it would be stuck inside me forever.
2 minutes in and already need to stop to comment that I'm all here for this. I didn't know I was Autistic until I was 42 and I spent so much of that time actively disconnecting myself and blunting those connections - as if every time someone told me to grow a thicker skin were an instruction. I really thought that learning to tolerate whatever my body throws at me physically or emotionally was some sort of universal rite of passage that everyone else just kind of stumbles through. Just more things where my reaction is always out of proportion and not my experiences and since there wasn't any knowing better all I could do was gaslight and bully myself beyond discomfort - it was the enemy and my weakness fed it. It was just a universal part of the Human Condition to learn to eat it, crush it, ignore it, whatever it takes to conquer it each and every day. Now I'm just a tight ball of muscle pain and misalignment and anxiety signals that I'm too burnt out to manage. The body really is a hell of a scorekeeper.
In my MMA gym, more than half of us are some kind of neurodivergent, and our coach has, in his words, "An untamable case of ADHD". He told us a story of how he stims with shadowboxing and shadowgrappling. Both of these things are, by themselves, pretty useless for most people in the sport. But they can be valuable if you're working on your form or imagining a realistic opponent. And in his own opinion, they're an extremely useful stimming technique. You get your body moving, you can work on your form, and it's good exercise if you have the space. You should probably do it with headphones in and listening to music that pumps you up. And in smaller, more cramped areas, just keep the moves small.
Shadowboxing and throwing kicks with music is my fav stim! Also hard style dancing like shuffle, hakken, jump style, the first two really good in small space too
4:14 I *love* Iroh, but my physics and biology special interests keep screaming whenever I see this scene. "Channeling electricity in one arm and out the other is *exactly* how you stop your heart, Iroh!"
I've managed to make my bedroom into a sensory safe space. I have a lot of stim toys, dimmable LEDs and blackout curtains so I can fully control the brightness, and noise reducing earmuffs I can put on at any time. Doesn't help with overstimulation in the moment but it's made it so I can usually recover from it effectively.
Dimmable leds my best purchase ever! Have been pursuing my own lil sensory palace about a year now and has been so important in getting control back and starting to move from surviving to thriving
I think the toy is called speks, oh no 😢 not sold in EU, shipping cost to the NL 20$ total cost 55$ 🥺 update: neo cubes :) good and cheaper alternative
Thank you for this. When I began watching, I was moving from an overwhelmed state to feeling numb. I don't stim much. I used to randomly dance to move energy but I've been so exhausted lately, that I can't. This video reminds of its importance. ❤
Thank you for these reminders to stim and ideas about how to stim. It got me up and moving. I am relearning how to practice stimming as a late dx'd 30 something. ✨ And the Queens Gambit breakdown sounds so Good! I just rewatched this show recently and it struck me so loudly that she's ND. 👏🏻 💕
Even for me as a guy who has been diagnosed as a young kid, discovering that I should consider my stims as a positive and even necessary thing is actually somewhat new, and I have been learning this from other autistic people on YT since recently. It was never explained to me by anyone. It's not that I don't stim, in fact my body does it kind of automatically. But it's more that I can look at it in a different way now. I can accept and embrace it more, but I also understand it better as a mechanism. Apart from stimming I have done meditation for years and it has always helped me to release a lot of stress and relax, but obviously the mix of those 2 things is the best. Music is also really important for me, and a lot of my movements follow the rhythm of the music, and that harmony is really great for an autistic brain. Which by the way is also really interesting in relation what you said in your video about channeling the stimulation. This also explains while I can handle dance parties often a lot better than a crowded supermarket full of people moving in random directions around me while I just try to concentrate on the things I want to buy.
Thank you for this video! In many ways I’m lucky I have my own office + I’m a department of one so I frequently take breaks just to pace around my office. Ever since I started doing this regularly/being OK with doing it, I notice I deeply dislike sitting for long periods of time. Also, because of this video, I went and bought two different handheld stimming gadgets. One is a fidget slider and the other is a 6-pack sensory stones. That way I can stim in the moments where I can’t walk around like in a meeting or on the 45-50 min bus ride to work.
Perfect timing with this video tbh. I've had a big year with lots of situations happening and lately I've been dissociating a lot more and finding somatic and intentional movements to help my also sick and painful body. Somatic and stimmy movements ftw.
I love the idea of using music and lighting and imagination to make chores more enjoyable. Thank you. Also, please, please tell us what your stim toy is! Thank you. 🖤
This is interesting because for the longest time I thought I was under stimulated when working office jobs/during school because I wasn’t moving enough but it’s actually taking in all the stimuli all day without being able to release it. Thank you for making this video I really need to get some new stim toys.
At school I find myself end up having internalized meltdowns because I can’t handle my overstimulation the way I can at home, like at home I like to lay on the floor and move around a lot and talk to myself. Obviously I can’t do that at school, and it makes it difficult to figure out how or what to do.
I'm about to go home from a week long holiday in Tunisia. It's a beautiful country, but damn was I overstimulated a lot in the first (two) day(s). It's my first destination outside of Europe. My first visit to the Arab world, as well. The first walk in the medina (city centre) was overwhelming. I've experienced what it's like to _be_ an exotic looking person in a different corner of the world. A lot of people try and engage in (small) talk. And it is often to try ajd sell you something, but quite few times, people greeted us very genuinely in such an endearing way. Thing is, I didn't know beforehand which of these two scenarios would be applicable. I left all the talking, negotiating and all that to my family. The market was especially overstimulating. A lot of noise, unfamiliar sights, intertwining smells and generally being packed like sardines. It was a bit of a baptism by fire. And later on, we used louages (mini busses that are prominent modes of transportation). I got overstimulated there too. Noisy engine, stinky engines, lots of sights, sitting shoulder to shoulder... I had a shutdown. And yeah... there were complete strangers around but I simply did stim because I had to. For the other louage trips, I brought my earplugs along. It was a great and very special holiday despite that, though.
😂you just reminded me of a meltdown i had in the middle of a tech mall market in China. My friends were so confused but the guide was busy chasing nyash😅 Good times
I need this video, I struggled my whole childhood with nail biting/picking as my parents were ableist and emotionally underdeveloped. I healed a bit and stopped but now it has come back and potentially worse
I would be really annoyed if people stimmed by moving their bodies and fingers and toes around me 😳 That would visually overwhelm me a lot!! Too much movement going on in my eyesight. I also get really overwhelmed by others verbal stims and singing to themselves.. I’m even overstimulated by my neighbors upstairs, I don’t get why they would have a family with children over another person’s apartment.. I can’t even relax in my own home, I have to wear something to shut out sounds at home 😢 If I’m around other autistics I have to think of my own needs, and if their stims annoy me I have to go away and/or put on earbuds/loops 😅 I haven’t stimmed since I was a child, and I am now trying to flap my hands and move my fingers and toes, to see if it has an effect on me.
9:53 By comparison, I have practically no sense of smell at all. Most of the time, even in a crowd, I don't notice that I'm smelling anything. If I do, it's usually food, or if my ADHD has sufficiently interfered with my hygiene, myself.
I literally play dress up when I have house cleaning days. Or I eat according to my current reading or shows. Like it's Chinese night but I'm watching Moonlight Mystique. lol
Great video. I do get that the intro style may be important but if we could have a little warning or something to skip to that would be nice. I personally don't expect loud noises or a representation of overstimulation when I open your channel- the videos I watch have always been calm. Anyways, this video was really helpful and I hope this is constructive criticism, I don't want to be overly critical at all
I never thought the way I observe was different tham others. I thought, the way I sense the environment and smells, textures was like how everybody sensed. Now I m curious to learn how to get better with what to do with all the overstimulation
I have a question for my neurospicy fam here. My son is ten and sucks his thumb. I know it's a stim. I don't want to take away his stim but I want to help him find a new one because he's effing up his teeth and palette at this point. I'm finding it so hard to help him find an alternative without making him feel ashamed of the behavior. We have tried chew necklaces and fidget toys and those haven't worked. What suggestions do yall have? Did y'all go through the thumb sucking stim as a kid and replace it with something else?
I'm a teacher of neurodivergent children. I found out in my second year teaching them that I was both autistic and have ADHD. I learned this at the age of 26. I was beaten and mocked by my mother to control what I didn't know were "stims". I was so comfortable with my students i started swimming with them. And one of my new students who was so shy and sad got so excited and started smiling and stimming with me. This was also after I infodumped about black capped chickadees. I love my students so much. I love teaching kids with a brain similar to mine. We both can finally be free ❤️
*stimming not swimming lol
I would have LOVED neurodivergent teachers growing up, that sounds like such an amazing environment. I'm going into the marine biology field and my dream job is to teach kids about the sea, as it's my main special interest and I find teaching kids so rewarding
7:08 "You're not necessarily physically tired you're just really overstimulated." Ahh, this actually answers a curiosity I always had because I didn't recall having a ton of meltdowns or shutdowns when I was a kid when I was thinking back for my assessment. They were there, but it seemed to be more frequent for a lot of people in response to sensory triggers. But when I thought back, my response to the overstimulation triggers they talked about was to go to sleep. Too hot? Too Cold? Too Hungry? Too Full? Too much happening? Too Loud? Whatever it was, just curl up and sleep through it. Just escape into unconscious oblivion or perhaps dreams, just get out of this chaos. So interesting. I'll be mulling this for a while. Thank you
Me too! I always went to my room after school and fell asleep. Sometimes I tried to listen to some music and accidentally fell asleep on the floor in front of my stereo. I was so exhausted.
Sleeping was my main coping mechanism too. In my old age that doesn't really work anymore, sadly. I have to be awake enough to take care of myself physically and sleeping too long gives me various aches and pains.
i'm glad that even at 6 y.o., when school faculty were not-so-charitable in judging me for fidgeting and tried to control it. i had enough self-respect to tell them i wasn't hurting nobody & to mind their own business. i'd genuinely tried being respectful and nicer prior to this encounter, but was treated like garbage anyway. So i became more abrasive to that kind of attitude.
I cannot begin describe how much these videos have helped me understand my own experience of reality, it has been really validating, thanks :)
So glad we're talking about this because covert stims tend to become very harmful to me. When I go to work I play this performance of the most wacky zany version of myself because I NEED to stim freely, and it becomes more acceptable, but compensating in that way becomes so exhausting.. We need a society that accepts that part of me that needs the regulation that comes with my meowing and noises and pivoting and running around!!!
Do you also meow whenever you see a cat? I just realized that was a stim I never knew that. But whenever I see a cat I just want to meow at them (including my own)
@@youremyfavoritesong9868 well yes!
Omg yes! i always feel like I need to become the stereotype so people would accept me actually being neurodivergent and having days where I just cannot function or even on day to day life having things that I cannot do
13:32
Autism: "Yay! A plan!"
ADHD: "Oh no! Enslaved to a plan!"
The double bind is real.
I felt this!! I have always focused on being still. At 43 I JUST started letting myself sing and dance in the car. It’s like you don’t want to be seen looking weird.
Singing, listening to music, dancing is my go to stimming and I notice when I can’t belt it out and play music super loud, (which I can’t because I live in an effing apt) I get very very angry and anxious and I hate people so much more.
❤ I agree that we need to stim. Walking, crafting, sitting in a rocking chair, and writing (and doodling during a meeting) are some of my favorite ones. 🥰
4:31 'All of which is to say you have to start stimming, you just have to...' Caught me so off guard... then my body was like... OK! *flapflap* Hahaha 🤣
Keep the energy flowing 🏃🏻♀ people don't move enough in general - I love somatic work
any recommendations on where to start? would love to get into that
@@andreasara8876 A practical exercise is Qigong shaking, you will find lots of video examples. Imagine your body is releasing tension and releasing any difficult emotions.
Do you have a link for the fidget you're using? It speaks to me a lot compared to other I've seen
Yes, please, do you have a link!
I was wondering this too
Every bit of this video is amazing advice, my cooking trick is making it video game logic alchemy so I have to use at least three ingredients. . .
You describing how you process just smell… oh my god, that is exactly how my brain works. I have not had anyone break down my thoughts so clearly like that before. This all happens in the moment someone says hi, and it always takes me a second before I respond back.
One thing that is highly to be recommended as far as stimming is to have a young autistic child "mentor" you. In other words, match their energy, do what you see them doing. Not only does it put you in much better touch with your stimming instinct (and I say this as a low-masker with plenty of stims that carried over into adulthood), but it also lets the child see an adult that acts like they do.
I've lost count of how many times I've felt overwhelmed by boundless energy, unsure how to process or release it-like nothing could help. I used to think it would be stuck inside me forever.
2 minutes in and already need to stop to comment that I'm all here for this. I didn't know I was Autistic until I was 42 and I spent so much of that time actively disconnecting myself and blunting those connections - as if every time someone told me to grow a thicker skin were an instruction. I really thought that learning to tolerate whatever my body throws at me physically or emotionally was some sort of universal rite of passage that everyone else just kind of stumbles through. Just more things where my reaction is always out of proportion and not my experiences and since there wasn't any knowing better all I could do was gaslight and bully myself beyond discomfort - it was the enemy and my weakness fed it. It was just a universal part of the Human Condition to learn to eat it, crush it, ignore it, whatever it takes to conquer it each and every day. Now I'm just a tight ball of muscle pain and misalignment and anxiety signals that I'm too burnt out to manage. The body really is a hell of a scorekeeper.
In my MMA gym, more than half of us are some kind of neurodivergent, and our coach has, in his words, "An untamable case of ADHD". He told us a story of how he stims with shadowboxing and shadowgrappling. Both of these things are, by themselves, pretty useless for most people in the sport. But they can be valuable if you're working on your form or imagining a realistic opponent. And in his own opinion, they're an extremely useful stimming technique. You get your body moving, you can work on your form, and it's good exercise if you have the space. You should probably do it with headphones in and listening to music that pumps you up. And in smaller, more cramped areas, just keep the moves small.
It's the patterns, kinetic chains.
Shadowboxing and throwing kicks with music is my fav stim! Also hard style dancing like shuffle, hakken, jump style, the first two really good in small space too
4:14 I *love* Iroh, but my physics and biology special interests keep screaming whenever I see this scene.
"Channeling electricity in one arm and out the other is *exactly* how you stop your heart, Iroh!"
😂😂i think they said it goes though the stomach (i never did biology)
@lisamedla Still uncomfortably close to the heart.
Got my fist fidget today. it is super tacky and cheap, i love the thing.
I've managed to make my bedroom into a sensory safe space. I have a lot of stim toys, dimmable LEDs and blackout curtains so I can fully control the brightness, and noise reducing earmuffs I can put on at any time. Doesn't help with overstimulation in the moment but it's made it so I can usually recover from it effectively.
Dimmable leds my best purchase ever! Have been pursuing my own lil sensory palace about a year now and has been so important in getting control back and starting to move from surviving to thriving
I'm always so amazed that you know the words to what we go through. Much respect.
Can I ask what movie those images at the beginning were taken from? Also where can we find that stim toy you showed? Thanks 🙏
I think it is from "How We Live Now" (2013) with Saoirse Ronan
I think the toy is called speks, oh no 😢 not sold in EU, shipping cost to the NL 20$ total cost 55$ 🥺 update: neo cubes :) good and cheaper alternative
I could write so much but everything you said in this video is almost verbatim things I've been saying to my fellow AudHD fiance ❤️
Your videos have helped me understand myself so much better. This one is something I really struggle with. Thank you
Thank you for this. When I began watching, I was moving from an overwhelmed state to feeling numb. I don't stim much. I used to randomly dance to move energy but I've been so exhausted lately, that I can't. This video reminds of its importance. ❤
This is really good advice, I'm looking forward to making my own rituals
Thank you for these reminders to stim and ideas about how to stim. It got me up and moving. I am relearning how to practice stimming as a late dx'd 30 something. ✨
And the Queens Gambit breakdown sounds so Good! I just rewatched this show recently and it struck me so loudly that she's ND. 👏🏻 💕
Even for me as a guy who has been diagnosed as a young kid, discovering that I should consider my stims as a positive and even necessary thing is actually somewhat new, and I have been learning this from other autistic people on YT since recently. It was never explained to me by anyone.
It's not that I don't stim, in fact my body does it kind of automatically. But it's more that I can look at it in a different way now. I can accept and embrace it more, but I also understand it better as a mechanism.
Apart from stimming I have done meditation for years and it has always helped me to release a lot of stress and relax, but obviously the mix of those 2 things is the best.
Music is also really important for me, and a lot of my movements follow the rhythm of the music, and that harmony is really great for an autistic brain.
Which by the way is also really interesting in relation what you said in your video about channeling the stimulation. This also explains while I can handle dance parties often a lot better than a crowded supermarket full of people moving in random directions around me while I just try to concentrate on the things I want to buy.
Awesome video, I think a lot of people can benefit from reflecting on overstimulation.
Good video as always Irene!! thanks!!
Thank you for this video! In many ways I’m lucky I have my own office + I’m a department of one so I frequently take breaks just to pace around my office. Ever since I started doing this regularly/being OK with doing it, I notice I deeply dislike sitting for long periods of time. Also, because of this video, I went and bought two different handheld stimming gadgets. One is a fidget slider and the other is a 6-pack sensory stones. That way I can stim in the moments where I can’t walk around like in a meeting or on the 45-50 min bus ride to work.
Perfect timing with this video tbh. I've had a big year with lots of situations happening and lately I've been dissociating a lot more and finding somatic and intentional movements to help my also sick and painful body. Somatic and stimmy movements ftw.
This was an AMAZING video. I appreciate everything you have done to help those of us struggling.
I love the idea of using music and lighting and imagination to make chores more enjoyable. Thank you. Also, please, please tell us what your stim toy is! Thank you. 🖤
This is interesting because for the longest time I thought I was under stimulated when working office jobs/during school because I wasn’t moving enough but it’s actually taking in all the stimuli all day without being able to release it. Thank you for making this video I really need to get some new stim toys.
At school I find myself end up having internalized meltdowns because I can’t handle my overstimulation the way I can at home, like at home I like to lay on the floor and move around a lot and talk to myself. Obviously I can’t do that at school, and it makes it difficult to figure out how or what to do.
I'm about to go home from a week long holiday in Tunisia. It's a beautiful country, but damn was I overstimulated a lot in the first (two) day(s). It's my first destination outside of Europe. My first visit to the Arab world, as well. The first walk in the medina (city centre) was overwhelming. I've experienced what it's like to _be_ an exotic looking person in a different corner of the world. A lot of people try and engage in (small) talk. And it is often to try ajd sell you something, but quite few times, people greeted us very genuinely in such an endearing way. Thing is, I didn't know beforehand which of these two scenarios would be applicable. I left all the talking, negotiating and all that to my family. The market was especially overstimulating. A lot of noise, unfamiliar sights, intertwining smells and generally being packed like sardines. It was a bit of a baptism by fire.
And later on, we used louages (mini busses that are prominent modes of transportation). I got overstimulated there too. Noisy engine, stinky engines, lots of sights, sitting shoulder to shoulder... I had a shutdown. And yeah... there were complete strangers around but I simply did stim because I had to. For the other louage trips, I brought my earplugs along. It was a great and very special holiday despite that, though.
😂you just reminded me of a meltdown i had in the middle of a tech mall market in China. My friends were so confused but the guide was busy chasing nyash😅 Good times
This video found me at the right time
also yes we really need to stim. i know this from myself, when I don't stim and do sensory joy-us activities I get way more burnt out and irritable
Thank you so much for the video!
I need this video, I struggled my whole childhood with nail biting/picking as my parents were ableist and emotionally underdeveloped. I healed a bit and stopped but now it has come back and potentially worse
I would be really annoyed if people stimmed by moving their bodies and fingers and toes around me 😳 That would visually overwhelm me a lot!! Too much movement going on in my eyesight. I also get really overwhelmed by others verbal stims and singing to themselves.. I’m even overstimulated by my neighbors upstairs, I don’t get why they would have a family with children over another person’s apartment.. I can’t even relax in my own home, I have to wear something to shut out sounds at home 😢
If I’m around other autistics I have to think of my own needs, and if their stims annoy me I have to go away and/or put on earbuds/loops 😅 I haven’t stimmed since I was a child, and I am now trying to flap my hands and move my fingers and toes, to see if it has an effect on me.
Speks needs to sponsor you bc I immediately went and ordered that fidget toy
i wish!
9:53 By comparison, I have practically no sense of smell at all. Most of the time, even in a crowd, I don't notice that I'm smelling anything. If I do, it's usually food, or if my ADHD has sufficiently interfered with my hygiene, myself.
love the video but oh my goooooood how do i find that stim toy please🙏🏻
I think it might be speks magnetic balls
Good video!🥰
This stimtoy is so cute where can i buy it? It looks like a perfect toy i have been looking for, tiny, discreet…please pretty please let me know
I think it might be Speks magnetic balls
I literally play dress up when I have house cleaning days. Or I eat according to my current reading or shows. Like it's Chinese night but I'm watching Moonlight Mystique. lol
Nice one ❤
Great video. I do get that the intro style may be important but if we could have a little warning or something to skip to that would be nice. I personally don't expect loud noises or a representation of overstimulation when I open your channel- the videos I watch have always been calm. Anyways, this video was really helpful and I hope this is constructive criticism, I don't want to be overly critical at all
I never thought the way I observe was different tham others. I thought, the way I sense the environment and smells, textures was like how everybody sensed. Now I m curious to learn how to get better with what to do with all the overstimulation
This is so good, thank you for stating/sharing. Did you make the film at the beginning? It's such a good example of how I always feel on the inside.
Where are the clips you used from, at the beginning?
16:54 With my gut, I don't need anything to help me eat! 🤣
Does anyone have a name for the movie shown at the beginning?
what movie/show are those clips in the beginning from? it looks good
I have a question for my neurospicy fam here. My son is ten and sucks his thumb. I know it's a stim. I don't want to take away his stim but I want to help him find a new one because he's effing up his teeth and palette at this point. I'm finding it so hard to help him find an alternative without making him feel ashamed of the behavior. We have tried chew necklaces and fidget toys and those haven't worked. What suggestions do yall have? Did y'all go through the thumb sucking stim as a kid and replace it with something else?
🤍🤍🤍 such a valuable message