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i think stimming for me is comparable to playing video games or listening to music, and that these are also stims for me, that just happen to be shared among NTs. i lack certain other stims like rocking and headbanging, and yet these both have parallels in NT society ([[rocking chairs]] and [[headbanging]] music)., it was an addiction at one point and if deprived of other things it could become one again, but i do not see that. i t is not comparable to alcohol in pleasurability for me, but addiction is not always [parallel to pleasurability. i would say i was addicted to video games at one point too.

alcohol dulls the sensation of my hands, so i cannot combine it with the hand-based stims. but i remember stimming doing some other things that involve visual and other tactile input with a very low but nonzero BAC that i dont think would be interesting to me if completely sober,.

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:10:13, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

it's occurred to me that i may be unusual even among autistics in how much pleasure i get from stimming. i actually doubt this ... i think many others (if perhaps not a majority) are just like me, but that even with our somewhat odd social skills we understand that it's embarrassing to stim in public, or even to talk about it, and so stimmers just dont bring it up even amongst each other. there may be some social media groups that i could find.

either way, it seems if Im right that people are largely unaware of this. our article, and other resources elsewhere, keep talking about how stimming is an escape from [[sensory overload]], never mentioning that it's a pleasurable activity at all. is this honestly what scientists believe, or is this a sort of [[noble lie]] intended to protect stimmers, especially children, from parents and other caregivers who might see it as no different than masturbation or perhaps even drug use?

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