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So I'm going to go over some tips, some secret kind of tips from me to you guys.
I've done all that work for you that you probably never even seen,
or any anyone ever spoken about with you before about stimming?
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So stimming is short for self stimulatory behavior and stimming
is something that happens when people are on the autism spectrum.
They actually, um, try to regulate themselves through this like
stimming behaviors, like a repetitive behavior that chills them out.
It makes them feel super, super awesome.
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So with stimming, it happens for a few different reasons, right?
Stimming happens when someone is kind of maybe excited about something that
interested in, in trying to, uh, you know, I don't know, maybe that the waiting
to go on a ride or watch a movie or.
Buy something they really enjoy and they could stim, and stimming could be like
shaking, flapping, their hand, shaking their hands, moving the fingers, anything
that could be a whole host of things.
Now, also that is a, um, there's a negative to it.
Maybe nervous or anxious about something like going to school or going to, to
an airport or something like that.
And they may stim to kind of calm themselves down.
Same things, flapping their hands, flicking the fingers, you
know, all that kind of jazz now.
Stimming is an interesting one because a lot of the time it's involuntary.
Cause it just happens randomly, but it can be a voluntary thing that
people do to calm themselves down.
If they're more self aware.
So the more self aware you are, the more that you notice stimming can help
calm you, which is an excellent thing.
Because then at the end of the day, if you'll.
You know, going around life and you feel anxious or nervous, you can
always stim, but sometimes stimming can, um, can just,confuse a lot of
people, because some people who may not know what the autism spectrum is
or what stimming is or anything to do with stimming, they may kind of look.
Oddly upon you because you may come across us odd to them, which isn't the case.
We all know that, but I'm just saying to them, perhaps you can come across as odd.
So then it's, I listed out some kind of like awesome tips for autism stimming
because I thought what a cool video to do.
Like nobody's ever done a video, lots of them, uh, stimming tips before,
because like, well, why would they, you know, I just thought of it right now.
So here we go.
This is ultimately just doing tips.
Okay.
So tip number one is the secret stim if you like, Dan, what does that mean?
Well, basically if you're out in public and you need to stim, um, take a fidgeter
toy with you and have it in your pocket.
So you could have, I would like a small fidget cube or a fidget blocker, or one of
those kinds of like fidget gadgets in your
. pocket.
And you can just have your hand in your pocket and play with it, in
your coat on your child's or pocket or whatever, because having that.
Out of the way people aren't going to think it's unusual behavior because
you're able to get that stimming motion, all that repetitive kind of soothing,
relaxing self stimulatory behavior through this thing, it's just in your
pocket and you can get all kinds of different stim, gadgets and stim toys.
I actually have a link down below in the description and you can
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And also the discount.
I mean, you can't be it really can you?, but secret stimming is awesome because
you can have fidget spinners kept outside of publics so nobody can judge you and
you can just use them whenever you want.
Super awesome hack.
Actually, one of the hacks that my partner uses, she has like these little stones,
like pebbles from the beach, but are really soft and she keeps those in their
pockets and just wrote with those as well.
So there are different kinds of stims that you can do with different things, but
it's all depending on you and which one you want to use if you know what I mean?
So that was my super secret.
stim tip, which I've used loads.
I use it all the time.
Actually.
I have klixx.
I don't know where it is.
It's not in my draws anymore.
It wasn't my drawer, but I guess it's in my coat pocket right now.
So the actual.
klixx is a small kind of like ckuster to gadget.
And then I can keep that in my bag.
And I put my hand on my bag and just click that around a bit.
Super, super awesome.
And I also have like one of those really small kind of, almost like
a gaming control of gadget thing.
And that goes in my pocket and same thing with that, the stemming super dope.
Okay.
So number two, this is the worry stim now,
a lot of people and I could talk about being self aware, but this
is a way of becoming self aware.
So if you're feeling kind of like a worry, anxious or nervous about
something and you're in your home, like say, or you're at home and it's
something coming up, like you have to go somewhere for dinner tonight, or like
you have to speak to somebody on the phone or sombody of authority, maybe.
Doing driving lessons.
It could be a whole host of things, right?
It's not all the thing is if you're feeling anxious, nervous, or stressed,
then why don't you like, you know, go to your room and then just let
out some stimming, you know, what?
You could be flapping your hands, moving your body.
Um, any type of stimming that you feel is going to be able to get that out,
rocking back on the forward, stepping back to side to side, this is what I do.
Um, it's just a way of you being able to get, um, that like repetitive
stim kind of therapy out in a private space where you can do.
Whatever you want really, because it's locking it away.
So it actually helps reduce worry, because it's almost like you're,
you're stemming out the worry and the anxious from your mind.
And it's a really good one to do, because again, there'll be no judgment.
There's nobody like watching you and thinking like, Hey, what's this guy doing?
You can go to your room, go to your thing and get, do it and, and just do it.
You know, there's, there's gonna be no.
Judgment prejudice.
Nobody's going to say to you, Hey, you can't do those things.
Are you, you look really weird and you've got to think about it as well.
Like if you're, if you're anxiously, if you're feeling anxious and
you're feeling kind of like a bit overwhelmed, you know, you don't want
to do you want to try and reduce it?
So the worry stim is definitely a way where you can privately do this and it'll
help you so much in the long run, because what you'll do is you'll train yourself
to think, Oh, well, I'm worried right now.
So I'm going to go to my room and just like flap my hands.
I'll walk backwards and forwards.
And.
You know, play with fidget gadgets in your room, doesn't matter what it is, right.
As long as you are fidgeting and your you're using the stim
to kind of stim away the worry.
And it's really good.
It's a very, very interesting, I use this when I'm in like ques and stuff.
Like I say, I'm out, like I'm a cue and up in a line to go to the
cinema or something like that.
I use this like a back and forth STEM to kind of help me, uh, you
know, bring my worry and stuff down.
So I thought, well, why don't I just stay at home?
And I'm super worried about something.
And it works an absolute treat.
You have to try it.
Okay.
So tip number three is the honesty stim and like.
What Dan, what are you talking about?
Basically, it's being open and honest with your friends and family.
Now, the people we spend most of our time around should be the people
that know most about is right.
Because if you, you know, like dietary requirements, if we hung out with a
bunch of people who didn't know what dietary requirements, and then they went
and bought us something that wasn't.
What's not vegan or had like eggs in it.
And you're allergic to eggs say, um, then, you know, there could be some
consequences, especially if like you're allergic to the food, but in terms
of, uh, people's personalities or characteristics, the same thing happens.
If you have an autism spectrum condition, your friends and family, the people
that you spend most of your time with, and those people need to know your
stims and your stimming behavior.
Because if you.
If you don't tell him that and he starts stimming, they may think
like what on earth is going on here.
And they may have an adverse effect.
It may be a negative outcome.
They may ask you questions that you're not feeling comfortable
with at the moment in time.
So I highly recommend, you know, be open, be honest, tell people exactly
how, tell him why you stim, what you stim, you know, what your stims
are, what your favorite stim are.
Yeah, the more honest and open you can be with your friends, the model respect
you and the mother can support you.
Because at the end of the day, we're all looking for support and
help from people to kind of manage and counsel our ups and downs.
And so if your friends can be there, when you're feeling anxious, cause
they say, Oh, you know, Dan's rocking backwards and forwards right now.
So he must be kind of anxious.
There must be some something going on.
So it's like, you know, he's stimming and I get up because.
He told me, you know, and I know that sounds really bizarre.
Right.
But it's definitely something that is.
It's the most, um, it's most effective because when you take like
a problem shared is a problem halved and not like stemming as a problem.
What I'm trying to say is that you don't have to work about being around
your friends or family when you're stemming, because I totally get it
because you told them directly, Oh, leave me a comment down below guys.
If you are on the spectrum or you're watching this for somebody who is on the
spectrum and you're watching on their behalf to tell them the information,
I'd love to know if your mum and dad or some one who is on the spectrum, pop it
in a comment down below, and I'll open a conversation with you because I love it
talking to each and every one of you guys.
And I read every single comment.
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