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==Stims I have no interest in==

===oral stimulation===

this seems to be big lately, with [[:wikt:chewelry|chewelry]] and similar things. This may be a combination of three things:

:#an expanded definition of stimming (both in the sense of including non-autistics, and of including more behaviors as stimming for both autistics and NT's)

:#awareness of a common behavior

:#the marketability of a product.

It may be that oral stimulation was previously seen as unsanitary and largely ignored even if it was obviously common. I do remember talking to other autistics and hearing that they often bit and chewed their hands and feet, and I briefly mentioned my own skin-chewing habit (developed from a thumb-sucking habit) before deciding it wasn't really a stim because I had been thinking at the time that only hand-based stims counted as stims. But it makes sense that both the hand and the mouth would have stims.

===spinning, headbanging and rocking===

Spinning in circles used to amuse me just as a stim by itself, but I have lost interest in this.