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raindrop-stimmies · 25 days

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Banana cookie stimboard!

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#banana cookie #stimboard #banana stim #lion stim #monkey stim #hula hoop stim #cookie run

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talos-stims · 1 year

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#talos gifs #stim gifs #stim #glow stim #glow #glowcore #neoncore #neon #pulsing lights #flash tw #flashing lights #eyestrain #irl people #clowncore #circuscore #circus #acrobatics #hula hoop

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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black-salt-cage · 1 year

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Sally Starlet (Welcome Home) stimboard ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾ ☽ - ✰ - ☾

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yoteblog · 8 months

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Autism for me is like:

Thinking about my special Interests all the time, won't stop talking about them until.... yeah

hypersensitive/hyperempathetic

rocking #1 stim

hand flaps #2 stim

borderline muscle spasm #3 stim

beautiful sarcasm, so nice that neurotypicals and allistics dont understand that its sarcastic due to the accidental flatness

on the otherside of the coin - cant understand sarcasm

fuck math

takes everything literally, because I associate a picture with every single word, letter, and number

acearo, but I experience love differently than others on and off of the spectrum (I love my gf but yall already know that)

comfy clothes otherwise uncomfy clothes make chronic pain worse and worse chronic pain means quick to anger

if its a wolf, I need it

random collections of things (bunny plushes, electric pokemon plushes, bones, knives, etc)

oh lining things up neatly is stim #4

memory loss may or may not be an autism thing, but DO NOT ever move anything of mine otherwise I will never know where it is again (or at least tell me where it is and show me)

constant movement in one way or another (like right now, im wigglying my feets)

low volume or I will quickly break down

on time or early to things. I hate being told "we're about to leave" but the 'about' is in 3 hours

routine routine routine routine routine

"idk" I literally dont know

looks around like a funny little bird instead of rotating head and eyes like a normal person

must hug or touch the people I love somehow (or if you're my gf, consensual bites /nsx)

uaaahg stuffed animals my beloved

i love rocks i love geology I love minerals I love dirt I love the earth I love

being in enclosed spaces, but they have to be good enough for me (by that I mean they cant cause me to feel claustrophobic)

chewing on the inside of my cheeks

spinning spinning spinning, call me gyro zeppelli with how much I spin

pacing

am doggy :3 /nsx

being made fun of in school but not knowing why

having the popular kids treat you like they want to be friends but they never act on it and not knowing why

expert at making hula hoop forts during PE in record time and just sitting in them, not actually using the hoops to exercise with

If I like you, you will get gifts. gifts can range from bought items or little trinkets I found such as rocks or plants. not accepting these gifts break our bond

i love lists

edit: id love to see ppls reblogs with their own little lists ^^

#autism #autistic #autistic things

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demolding · 5 years

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#stim #stims #stimming #hooping #hula hoop #hoop dance #flow arts

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sensry · 5 years

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Hula Hoop Impov

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#stim #stimming #sensory #dancing #body stim #hula hoop #blue #teal #beach #people #Mod Red's Gifs

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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anemodaycare · 2 years

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WonderlandsxShowtime Age Regression HCS:

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Tenma Tsukasa:

His age range slides from 0-5

Constantly overwhelms himself with rehearsals and shows

It's not on purpose, he just tends not to realize how much is too much

If he gets hurt during a show or rehearsal, it's over

The troupe will NOT hear the end about his boo-boos

He's honestly a very quiet little

His favorite activities are watching other shows and coloring

And let me tell you. This man is so specific about his coloring

He will throw a fit if someone else tries to color with him because "they're not doing it right!"

The only who's allowed to color with him is Nene

If Tsukasa is regressed, they're coloring together. It doesn't matter if Nene is too

He carries around his childhood stuffie

It's a raggedy brown bear (Saki has a matching one up in the attic)

Otori Emu:

Her age range is 5-8

She has a bad tendency to completely disregard her inside voice

She already has volume regulation issues, when she regresses it only intensifies

She's the most active little

She cannot sit still

Times outs? Don't work on her

Not that she ever needs it, of course

She's the least fussy

She can't really play with Tsukasa but she will try to play babysitter

She has tried to hold him before

And dropped him immediately after

That was the first and last time she went into time out

Her favorite toys are those bubble wands (the really big ones that you can just. run with) and hula hoops!

Kamishiro Rui:

His age range is 8-10

He likes to tease the other littles for being the oldest of the group

As he forgets about Nene's age range

He's not loud, but he is very fidgety

He needs to be doing something with his hands

In order to stop him from breaking one of his toys, fidget toys are a great substitute for him

"How do you know that Rui's regressed?"

"He's been playing with slime for the past hour."

He's constantly seeking for new stimulants

Once he settled on tugging Tsukasa's hair

And while that made a very happy Rui, Tsukasa ended up in tears

They're not allowed unsupervised when they're both regressed anymore

He exclusively watches recordings of plays and PBS kids

You can't look at this man and tell me he would not love the educational shows

Kusanagi Nene:

Her age range is the largest of the group (5-12)

She is a little cryptid

Literally she is obsessed with they idea of just becoming one

She has a little moth onesie and proudly claims to be Mothman

She's surprisingly bolder when she's little

She has. such a mouth when she's big but the filter is completely gone when she's small

She gets along with everyone while they're regressed

Though sometimes she is a bit too mean to Tsukasa

But it's okay! She makes up for it by giving him new coloring pages

She's also a big fan of PBS kids but she doesn't enjoy watching shows as much as Rui or Tsukasa

She verbally stims with no filter. She is singing all the time!

She usually continues to sing whatever song they've had in their latest performance

Sometimes, her and Emu will still do the dances together

They're not very synced but Rui has so many videos of the two playing

#fandom agere #sfw agere #project sekai agere #agere tsukasa #agere rui #agere nene #agere emu #agere wxs #i hope that you guys like the colorcoding #i think its so neat!

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canarhys · 5 years

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hazel levesque headcanons because i love her.

she’s an artist by the heart. not only does she know how to draw and paint, but she is also super good at writing poems and singing. she mostly sings r&b and indie rock, plus some jazz that reminds her of the times back in new orleans. she also plays the bass and has jam sessions constantly.

don’t tell anyone, but she adores activities like jump-rope and hula-hooping, since she’s really just a kid and she has so much energy in her tiny body that she needs to release it by doing kiddie games. she is currently the one of both camps with the highest number of skipping rope jumps, and she will demolish you in jacks.

she stims all the time. she likes bouncing on the balls of her feet and humming to herself, swinging herself back and forth whenever there’s nothing to do or she just feels like it. she plays with the bracelets around her wrists and snaps her fingers out of nowhere. she gets super flustered when someone points it out, so she tries to only do it around people she knows. luckily, her friends tell her that her mannerisms are great.

adrenaline junkie, all the way. piper had taken her ziplining one time and it was one of the best experiences of her life. she’s always the one to go first on a bungee jump, and will ride the tallest rollercoasters at the theme parks she visits. she loves the rush of freedom and euphoria as she drops at a ninety degree angle.

because of the retaliation she had received back in the past, she had stopped cursing for years and got super flustered whenever someone would curse. eventually, she becomes more accustomed to the modern era, and has started cursing once more. although poor jason had a heart attack when she suddenly yelled “fuck!” after she stubbed her toe on the table in the mess hall.

loves. astronomy. to death. she has always had a fascination for stars and planets and the moon, and leo had even gifted her a telescope for her birthday. she often finds herself on the crest of a hill, stargazing with the new tool and drawing the galactical objects into her special sketchbook. if she doesn’t become an illustrator when she’s older, she’ll definitely take the opportunity to become an astronaut.

is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, demigods who has ever lived. this isn’t even a headcanon, it’s pure fact. she can mold the precious metals she summons into sharp knives and spears, and she can manipulate the mist to trick monsters into attacking each other or attacking themselves, manipulating the battlefield to a shocking degree. despite her cheefulness and hopeful disposition, she is someone who should not be messed with at all costs. fuck with her, you perish by her hand.

as much as i love hazel’s spatha, i have something even better -- a scythe. during the quest of the seven, hazel gains a stygian gold scythe from her father (what’s stygian gold? it’s basically just gold dipped in the styx, like nico’s iron sword). she is deadly with it, even though she sometimes looks like she’s cutting grass whenever she wields it. she’s still thinking of a name for it.

has taken the opportunity to paint over all her clothes. she decorates her denim jackets and overalls with moons and stars, wears shirts that she has spray-painted herself, has shoes with embroidery of her design. she’s a goddamn artist, and she will be so till the very end of her days.

has made herself and all of her friends friendship bracelets. she does not even take them off when swimming, for they hold sentimental value to her. she would not even think of throwing them away, since she is desperate to live her second life to the fullest and make as many friendships as she can. for each friend, she makes two bracelets -- one for them, and one for herself. she can’t count how many she has. she doesn’t really care though.

eats spices like the queen she is. she obviously ate gumbo and jambalaya back then, so her taste buds rival the forges of hephaestus to a good degree. also, she can cook really well, and has replicated her mother’s recipes for everyone to enjoy.

her modes of transportation are literally either horse of bike. she rides arion when she needs to make it to destinations quick, since what else would you use the fastest horse alive for? however, if she’s looking for a calm and peaceful stroll, she may bring out her bicycle and bike through the neighborhood, enjoying the wind that beats lightly against her chest and causes her hair to flow in the wind.

also, she is a big horse girl. obviously, she loves arion to death and will never cease in making sure that he is properly cared for, offering him gold nuggets and placing flower crowns in his hair to brighten him up after a long journey. she is also seen constantly in the stables of the camps, chilling out with the horses and resting across their backs, even making arts & crafts as they watch with keen eyes. all of the horses would die for this tiny girl.

is small. she’s the smallest of the seven, but it’s like to the point where she needs to stand on the counter to reach things on the top shelf. she can’t even reach the microwave of the argo ii. the seven make jokes about it from time to time, but if someone else other than them makes fun of hazel for her height, she and/or her friends will unleash the beast.

her fatal flaw is guilt. i used to think it was fear, but i think that is more of piper’s fatal flaw, and her flaw listed in the riordan wiki is too vague and confusing. so it is guilt. she has a problem with beating herself up, not just in large instances such as raising alcyoneus or letting two of her friends fall into tartarus, but in small instances as well. she is guilty over forgetting a birthday even if she does not know that person, she is guilty over being too much for her friends to handle -- she has a guilt complex over the smallest issues to the biggest problems. it had taken control of her life since her mother had looked at her as if she were some sort of mistake. hazel has a ton of mental issues that even the fandom ignores.

but she has friends. they are her family, her ride-or-die and she will fight for them as they will for her. sometimes she is scared they will leave her, that they will realize just how useless she is. but she is not. she is hazel levesque, hero of olympus, and her friends are her home. and through them, hazel can learn to love herself.

#pjo #hazel levesque #.txt #i'm sorry if i'm being annoying but... i just love her...

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babysoftstims · 4 years

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Can you do stim dances like flappy hands and led hula hoops or people spinning in led colored robes

Posted for you! Let me know if you'd like anything changed!

~Raph

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unluckyxse7en-moving · 6 years

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You know something else that annoys me that it doesn't feel like anyone else gets irl, outside of my family? This CRAVING for overstimulation that our society seems to have. And if you can, I want you to bear with me on this, or at least skim towards the end of the post to see my reasoning- this is gonna get long, but I think it's important to think about.

I most see examples of the overstimulation obsession at work (Target) - when I'm in the toys and electronics sections

Electronics I'm sure is fairly obvious - we have these giantass hd 4uhk or whatever tv screens, like 8 of them all together projecting our main ads, mostly music ads - including clips of music videos with flashing lights and jarring graphics

And THEN because that's not enough, we have an adjacent wall not too far from that setup, where all our tv display models for sale are - and those? Are a cascade of three or four different feeds playing independently looped ads, complete with their own volume up and everything (the one saving grace is the ads are sometimes showing off the tvs capabilities with showing color and definition, in which case the ad commonly relies on slow-mo shots of water in some form. A little more relaxing than the main screens)

Toss in that we have sample speakers and video game consoles that run music all day long - and lately even another, sample tv screen of a small display size to show off ads for some kind of little robot toy - and trying to work in that section is just overload central. And that's not including the customers!!!!

And then toys. This is probably my bigger pet peeve for the sheer fact that it's absolutely unnecessary: if it's not a brand name toy? If it's not a toy from some franchise or show or video game? It's gotta be Interesting™. I mostly see this with classic, older type of toys - jump ropes, toy balls, frisbees, hula hoops, squishy toys, stuff like that that's lowkey - 90% of the stock we offer on it? Has some sort of obnoxious electronic noismaker box or - my biggest annoyance- a stupid LED flashing light core. Or both. If you're lucky, the toy will be some newly marketed stim-based toy coming off the hype that led to an explosion of fidget toys and spinners and the boosted popularity in slime. Those rarely have this problem - on the other hand, they're their own fad the way franchise items are, so are probably deemed interesting enough by that virtue alone. (Of course even then you have light up fidget spinners and junk)

Honestly, the toys section pisses me off more in this respect for two reasons: 1) it's highly unnecessary. Toys =/= electronics and don't need to be this way by nature and 2) the sheer fact that we market it this way encourages the concept of 'if it's not overstimulating it's not gonna sell, it's not gonna be interesting and your child DEFINITELY won't play with it unless they're entranced at all times by our bright flashing lightshow!!!'

So here's why this pisses me off so much:

My family? Has two immediate members who suffer from epilepsy and seizures when exposed to electronics - not even the fancy flashing i'm describing, but prolonged exposure to electronic screens alone can put them in pre-seizure territory.

My 15 year old sister has a daily hour-long electronic limit because too much more and she has seizures. Think about that - an hour-long electronic limit. This can include her video games or her computer- if she had a modern phone it would include that too. Our tv is an exception because it's a tube tv monitor that's at least 10 years old, but even then we as a family reserve that for watching together at dinner time, instead of an all day thing.

One hour.

No internet, because it hurts our heads. No cellphone. Just video games and her computer, which is a dinky thing she uses chiefly for animating.

Because electronics can push her to seizures. And seizures? Can literally affect her oxygen intake if they get too bad. We've seen her turn ashen and blue because she's technically breathing, but her body isn't processing the oxygen. So it's kind of a big deal that we can't work around otherwise.

My mother also has seizures, she has them a little more under control, she can play video games or be online on her phone - but too much electronics can give her major headaches and lead to her lying in bed all day, because she cannot function. We have a sports stadium near our house. Not super close but if there's a concert we can hear it. On days when that's active, when its floodlights are on and amps are going and probably the scoreboards are doing whatever - mom has to flee the house before noon, or she's laid out in bed all day and has at least one major seizure. She has to flee the house. Whatever her epilepsy responds to isn't just visual. It's another sensory level entirely. The mere proximity to that much electricity pumping through an area is too much for her.

Maybe that sounds fake to you. Honestly, I don't care. We've lived through too many weekends where she's doing terribly and none of us can figure out why, and then we find out that stadium has an event going.

And by that point it's too late for her to leave the house, and all anyone can do is sit around and try to take care of her and hope it'll be over soon.

We've lived through too many weekends where we foresaw this potential problem, and mom has gone out of the downtown area we live in for the entire day, and aside from being subjected to fluorescent lights and bad drivers on the interstate, she's fine. She feels her head clear up when she leaves - and feels it fog up when she returns in the evening.

My sister feels it too. And as I've begun tracking it, I've found I also have more head troubles on days like that, and it eases up under the same conditions.

My sister and mom are moving out to a house in the country, surrounded only by corn fields - they won't have to worry about the stadium anymore.

But the electronics and toys??? God, I don't even know if they could find a tv like the one we currently have, one that's not fancy hd high-def in your face - short of a hand-me-down from my grandma. And the hd tvs? In case you haven't noticed a pattern- bad for their health. We visit family with those tvs. We have had to ask them to specifically keep those tvs turned off when we visit. It's too much for their health for it to be left running.

So when I work in Target, I get pissed off to all hell, because it's not really the safest environment to people who suffer seizures similar to what sets it off in my mom or sister. Heck, it's not like epilepsy is new!!! Video games have had epilepsy warnings on their boxes for ages, which suggests it's well known enough and prevalent enough to address like that. But if an entire store is designed like that, what are they supposed to do??? What if all stores are like that, and their condition is bad enough to not risk going in? What if the nearest store that's safe is like an hour drive??

"Oh well Cleo they can just shop on the internet."

Yeah, they sure can. But they shouldn't HAVE to, in this hypothetical situation. We don't NEED 500 tvs blaring different things at us. We don't NEED toys that flash if you so much as twitch. THAT'S what pisses me off.

There's another, perhaps less pressing reason it annoys me - sensory overload. I have it, my dad has it, my mom has it. It can be due to autism, or trauma, even conditions like adhd if I remember correctly.

For me, it's not the biggest issue. Clearly, because I can still work in this hellscape of a store. But it does leave me confused, and functioning at half-efficiency, and my energy runs out a lot faster on days when i work on that side of the store, leaving me tired, grumpy and drained.

But not everyone with sensory overload can function so well under such conditions. Overload when pushed, can lead to breakdowns, shut downs, incidents I think of as panic attacks when it happens to me, though that may be the wrong term - but it leads to me freaking out and having trouble breathing right and I'm panicking and afraid and everything is too much, too much, too much and I can't even begin to calm down until things around me calm down. It's a terrible experience.

I don't have those when working at the store. That doesn't mean someone else won't.

So if we have epilepsy, and seizure overload, due to things like this, which aren't the most uncommon of conditions or struggles to have - then why the hell is it ok for stores to push this on us, not just electronics which can only be helped so much (sadly), but with simple goddamn toys??? Toys that SHOULD be an option for children who can't handle the franchise toys with voice boxes, or the 3D video game graphics with 360 degree camera action? Why is it those have to be hunted down for rather than readily available, while their cheap flashing counterparts literally fill the shelves?

Tl;dr - electronics and flashing and overload-inducing items for the entertainment of the common masses are stressful and even dangerous to some people's health, but corporations aren't about to even consider that because OH WOW ITS SO FLASHY!!! And people WILL buy it because what it takes to grab their attention in a world so over-inundated by overstimulating objects as it is. And that... is not ok.

#long post #rant #gripegripegripe #epilepsy #seizures #sensory overload #sensory #health #mental health #electronics #this is why when little tumblrites get mad about the 'electronics are bad' rhetoric and then argue how electronics did nothing bad ever #i get hella pissed off #because theyre so focused taking sides and arguing that it never occurs to anyone maybe both sides have a point #maybe electronics arent the godsend some people make them out to be #maybe it actually affects all of us regardless of our health conditions or lack of #just a thought #idk i just had to get this off my chest #apologies for the lack of readmore my mobile app doesnt do that

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frenchfrysword · 5 years

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I think I might be stimming when I hula hoop! THe rhythmic bouncing on my belly and hips feels very pleasant, plus I spin myself a lot when I hoop

#personal #actually autistic #stimming

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acrobaticcatfeline · 4 years

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Introducing Talisa! Shes a definite pain.

Shes essentially my mental health issues, my anxiety, adhd, depression, but her official title is quirks or divergence.

Shes the source of my stims, she loves when I wear clothes with loose threads or holes, she has s field day.

She likes to eat important memories, like what I was doing, or schoolwork. Shes the source of my hyperfixations, she'll be entertained for hours by me just scrolling through tumblr.

She does fun things until they become harmful, how I end up with rashes on my arms after hula hooping too much.

Bad habits!!!!

Shes trying really hard but you know it's hard being the storage cell of all of my mental health problems. Shes doing her best

Her symbol is a blue and green fidget cube.

#fe rambles #my oc #talisa

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black-salt-cage · 1 year

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#💙 sugar life posting 🌙#stimming #stim #stimmy #asmr #gifsets #gifs #stimblr #hula hoops #hoopflow #physical stims #bodily stims #kidcore #fashion #clothes #rainbows #rainbow #hula hooping #real people

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gothtistic-stims · 7 years

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i just got my first tangle from hot topic. its a purple metallic one and its so pretty. im not really sure how to stim with it?? have any tips pls ?

There are lots of ways you can stim with a tangle! - use one hand and try to manipulate it around your fingers, twisting it and creating a loop - put it on your wrist and twirl it - put it on your finger and spin it like a finger hula hoop- use two hands to manipulate it - twist it up into The Thing™ (basically the curled up way most tangles come in)- once curled up, stick your fingers through it - wear it as a crown- click it apart and put it back together - click it apart and play with the tangle as a long string - click it apart and wrap it up - anything else you can think of!The great thing about tangles is there's tons of ways to stim with them, and I hope you find as much enjoyment in your tangle as I do in mine! 😊

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demolding · 5 years

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#stim #stimming #stims #hula hoop #hooping #rainbow #black #mine #minor flashing tw #eye strain

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