People who have asd (or if u know about it) is this considered stimming?

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This may be a stupid question but i just wanna know lol. Sometimes i twitch or i start doing excessive movements like idk scratching arms or flapping hands when i think about something that gives me a lot of anxiety.

I have read that people within the autistic spectrum's stims (flapping hands, crack joints etc) a lot of times get "worse" when they get overstimulated or overwhelmed by exterior stimuli (loud sounds, bad textures etc). I was just curious. If you get overwhelmed by your own thoughts and you do those type of things, does that count as stimming too? Or does it must have to happen as a result of something external to be counted as a stim?

I am trying to figure out if my flashes of extrem anxiety is just that or if they might imply something else.

Sorry if this made 0 sense, it's late and english is not my mother tongue (hell, not even my second language lol so, excuse me pls thankyou)

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  • kikilizzo
    1 year ago

    Yeah flapping hands is one of the most common stims.
    It can be anxiety as well. Stimming isnt reserved for autism spectrum disorder only. Stimming can happen both randomly without thinking about it and that you do it on purpose because it makes you feel better. I've never done any obvious stimming in public but before and after phone calls I flap my hands, for example, and in a situation like that it is to relieve anxiety.
    Something external doesnt have to be what causes you to want or need to stim. You can be overwhelmed with emotion, good or bad, and stim in order to get some outlet for it all.

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  • LloydAsher
    1 year ago

    Pretty much anything is a symptom of asd. That being said your case seems like a common case of asd

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  • Crocotta1
    1 year ago

    I have asd and I stim in my chair

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    1 year ago

    I start randomly shadow boxing myself. I got the nick name shadow boxer at work. Most dont even know my real name.

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