mentions of stims // nd struggles

SleepinqZzz 4/8/2022 08:43 am 745

the trans struggles thread inspired me to make this

i'm nd (adhd/ddd) and i stim when i get surprised

i also stim when i'm focused

during study halls this leads to increasingly startled stims for like 4 minutes straight

it's lowkey funny ngl


anyways share ur nd struggles too!

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Apr 8, 2022 9:09 am

whenever im stressed in class (it happens a lot kao crykao cry) 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 crying

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

Apr 8, 2022 9:12 am

i have tourettes and sometimes i just bark in class and like i cant control it and only my close friends and teachers know so everyone in my classes is always like 'lmao wut' and its heckin embarassing T^T

Apr 8, 2022 9:16 am

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

Apr 8, 2022 9:54 am

I have autism and having to explain to people why I hate textures and eat everything with forks is a classic

Apr 8, 2022 10:25 am

due to being autistic, i have a LOT of texture sensitivities regarding food, which means that there's a LOT of foods that i'm unable to eat due to the texture. i'm also vegetarian, so it ends up meaning that sometimes when/if my family goes to a restraunt, there'll be literally nothing on the menu i can eat.

also i have tics (which im pretty sure r caused by autism in my case), and several of my tics are rlly physically painful, which is fun /s

Apr 8, 2022 10:56 am

I have autism, apd and adhd, and here are the things that are hardest to explain to people:

- why I CANNOT eat anything with chunks of something in it (Greek yogurt, cottage cheese)

- why I “clap” so weird (one of my happy stims is hitting the top of my wrists together, kind of looks like clapping)

- why I can’t talk when I’m stressed (nonverbal shutdown woohooooooo)

- why I can’t hear you if there are more than two people talking near us

- why I can’t hear when I’m concentrated in something (if you try to talk to me when I’m making kandi I’m sorry but I will not hear a word you say)

- why I need subtitles on tv/videos if I don’t have my headphones in

- why I need my headphones in to watch tv/videos

- why silence hurts my ears

- why I can’t wear certain textures of clothes

Apr 8, 2022 11:17 am

i have adhd and it absolutely sucks @ss

-when a room has too many repeated noises or too much noise it like overloads my brain and i get a panic attack (happens nearly everyday in my history class bc i sit next to these two dudes who can't stop making annoying noises.

-i stim when ever i get excited or i'm not moving around a lot, my most frequent one is just aggressively shaking my hands around

-too many people around me will make me curl up and cry, like literally if i'm in the store an it's a little bit too crowded i'll start crying and hide in a corner

there's more but i don't feel like listing them

Apr 8, 2022 6:21 pm

autism moment

my history teacher has a air purifier and she turns it off when someone is talking quietly because its quite loud, but when its turned off I cant get used to the sound of it not being there. so I adapt to the sound of it not being there, then she turns it on again! so now I have to adapt to that!

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Apr 8, 2022 6:28 pm

because of my adhd I will just repeat the same phrase over and over in conversations like I'll just go oh my God to everything and because of my mood reguation disorder I will throw toddler fits when I'm mad it's so embarrassing I also get phrases where I will be reluctant to talk for weeks and when I room is loud I snap and cuss ppl out because my mind goes fuzzy

Apr 8, 2022 9:19 pm

omg hashtag autism.

//mentions of ableism

-i physically recoil if i touch chalk / anything that feels chalky and it hurts in my nails

-i bite at my hands and arms as a stim and cant leave my room until theyre gone because i dont want my mom 2 call me another slur (i have a chewie but it hurts my jaw if i use it for too long!!)

-my special interest is "boring". no one cares or wants to talk about ng or adobe flash.

-i have a comfort item i need with me at all times or else i can get panicky and i left it at my family members house all week

-i constantly get told "but youre too smart to be autisctic!!" wtf is that supposed to mean.

-another stim is singing and it hurts my throat but i cant stop doing it

-my mom refuses believe im autistic because "youre not [slur]" and the rest treats it likes its so horrible, so i dont have have accommodations besides the chewie (that they make fun of me for). this makes school very fun /s

-i cant pay attention without music playing in the bg and my teachers wont let me do that so im failing most of my classesdance

yeah very fun /s