#btw adhd & autism are the most associated with stimming but people with schizophrenia ocd and ptsd (among others!) stim too | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

levymcgarden55 · 9 months

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It’s time for some happy stim appreciation!!!

Happy stims are a lot like normal stims, but ones you do when you’re happy and/or excited. It’s like you have so many positive emotions in your body that you just need to move & express them.

Picture it: you’re telling a bunch of kids they get season passes to a theme park. Do they sit still? No! They laugh and jump up and down, because they’re just so excited they couldn’t possibly sit still.

Did you know that humans are not the only ones that show happiness through their actions? Cats make biscuits, dogs wag their tails, and multiple animals do tippy taps! Personally, my go-to is wiggles.

If you’re thinking “but wait, I don’t stim when I’m excited,” it might be that you repressed the impulse, possibly as a masking measure. My partner w adhd & autism didn’t happy stim either, but then she saw me happy wiggling and it made her so happy that *she* started wiggling too. Now it’s just how she happy stims.

You might say “I’m probably neurotypical / don’t have a diagnosis / etc. Can I still happy stim?” The answer is YES, the more the merrier! I love seeing people when they’re excited and it’s just so much more fun when they flap their hands or jump up and down!!

I wanna celebrate all the different ways to happy stim, so,

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