@melindrea@actuallyautistic Stimming in my opinion (Im aut) is only bad when it is self harmful or harmful to others. Which…a lot of people do have selfharm stims. That is something to work on…both from better access to less overwhelming environments & replacing with stims that dont cause harm. I once babysat an autistic kid who’s main go-to stim was to bite others. Like. Draw blood bites. Uhm. No. This is NOT okay. I find a lot of autistics dont like to talk about that level of stimming, or sometimes even acknowledge it exists. But it does. Even my own totally done with everything stim is banging my head on whatever hard object is around - wall, desk, countertop. I work hard to not do that. To be aware of feelings and sensations to not get to that point (leave situation, use alt stims before it builds to that point, etc etc) but it happens sometimes. Rarely, but it does. It’s harmful & I can acknowledge that. Being aut doesnt give me a pass to hurt anyone, including myself.