Emma03
Active Member
So, I can do some pretty odd things when I’m nervous, scared, happy, sad, amused, etc. As a kid, I did a LOT of weird things in public places the same way I did at home, that changed when i was around 6, I realized what I was doing was “weird” and started masking it. I redirected what J was doing to make it smaller and less noticeable. Of course, what I was doing was stimming. At this point, the most obvious stim I do in public would be twisting a hairtie around my fingers or jiggling my leg in a certain pattern. However, alone in my room, I stop masking it so much. Recently, I have been chewing on a plastic water bottle that is almost completely crushed. It sounds pretty weird, but it is just natural to me, I don’t really think about it, and sometimes have grabbed it and am chewing on it for an hour before I even realized what I was doing. Is it just me that does this? Both the chewing thing and the masking thing.