I generally am unsure what is counted as stimuli. I was generally referring to stimming or repetitive body movements that occur when thinking or concentrating or nervous. I get a lot of these.
I know one of the more prominent “Stims” I have is leg and foot bouncing. I do this a lot. Usually when thinking, bored, or nervous.
Another is finger movements. I strangely twist and interlace my fingers a lot. This has no known cause though. Pleasure I think because it does feel somewhat intriguing. I also move my fingers like I’m playing an instrument when I listen to music.
Ive never rocked back and forth but a few times within the last 6-7 months (the period of time where I was feeling so crummy that I felt sick. This all happened after I got sick with an upper respiratory infection the sunday before christmas of last year). Since then I haven’t been so scared that I did that to calm myself.
I pace a lot when thinking or bored.
I don’t flap my hands (as far as I remember) when I am excited.
I do sometimes walk on my toes (it feels like I have springs on my feet. I kind of like it). But not usually.
Anyways.
Some general positive stimulative objects/events: youth group, Friendly people who tolerate me, music composition, 3D computer graphics, animation, disney and Pixar films, dodgeball (surprisingly), really good sci-Fi films and/or stories, sciences, electronics and robotics, and many more I can’t list right now
Negative stimulative objects/events: the heart and or heartbeat sound , anger (yes I can tell when someones angry [more specifically when they don’t mask their anger]. This is one reason why I have some doubt if I have aspergers), being forced to go on amusement rides I dislike, feeling sick for longer than a week, and more of course.
It says here that Aspies do exhibit empathy and do read emotions.
But they can’t handle them.
If anything proves that I have aspergers syndrome, it’s that.
I’ve always been sensitive to anger. When my mom yelled at me for an issue I wont say as it’s a family matter, I started crying.
Another similar incident is when i was going nuts and panicking for issues involving my health (I was paranoid back then), I got yelled at. I actually broke down crying.
I feel a good deal of concern for other people when they are physically evident of being emotively hurt or stressed…
I seem to remember crying while my sister was getting some procedure (because she was crying). Yet I wasn’t undergoing the same procedure.
YET!!! I can’t notice the subtle evidences and, when I do notice the obvious ones, I stare blankly at the person who is undergoing the stress.
Isn’t there also a misconception with Aspergers that they have no imagination? Like, I was reading up on it, and when I was a kid, and when my aspie friend was a kid too, we wouldn’t play with the toys, we’d figure and act it all out in our heads. And yet thats not imagination apparantly…
Another childrens book series like lemony snicket.
It has more of an Alice and wonderland tone though as it’s about a girl who goes into some supernatural realm called “the Ever After”
A pretty good storyline. My sister introduced it to me so…
, anger (yes I can tell when someones angry [more specifically when they don’t mask their anger]. This is one reason why I have some doubt if I have aspergers), being forced to go on amusement rides I dislike, feeling sick for longer than a week, and more of course.
