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my stress stim is the same as my happy stim and because of that my other nd nd friend can’t tell when I’m really stressed or really happy

whenever im stressed in class (it happens a lot ) i start getting a strong urge to scream, so instead i just start doing my hand flapping stim but since i dont want others around me to look at me i have to try and do it discreetly but its really hard

whenever im stressed my sensitivity to sound gets worse 4 some reason-

also when i dont have a mask on in school idk what type of face i should make so i just start shifting through the same 3 faces and hope i dont look weird

edit: forgot to say this but i quite literally cant eat mushrooms cuz of the texture, if i eat anything with melted cheese on it it cant be too drippy or too hard, i cant eat shredded cheese (esp on salad, it ruins the whole salad for me and i can only eat the parts that dont taste like cheese), anything thats soft but cold i cant eat, i can sometimes taste the metal on metal cutlery which messes up a whole meal 4 me, blue cheese ranch is so nasty and it ruins everything that its on. I need subtitles on for the majority of stuff i watch (mainly tv shows n movies), when im stressed i sometimes have a nonverbal shutdown, i have tics that are caused by my nd which is great /s , im rlly sensitive to what ppl say. my mom says im (insert r slur) all the time, i cant have my hands be dry due to the texture