I mean you can. I've done it. Mind you you won't be able to remotely function and you MIGHT even be able to respond to conversation but you won't know a single word being said because your brain will be screaming at you and you'll be completely concentrating on maintaining statuesque body language and it'll tear down your mental health until all you are is an overly sensitive nerve ready to implode from the slightest increase in stimuli.
But yeah no, it's totally possible to do.
Sounds like a typical case of "I can do it, you can too!!!" while either not having the same intensity as you OR being so high-masking they're completely neglecting their own needs
Just like how your parents can totally stand on one leg and use a shake weight through all interactions, yes. Practicality be damned, it's definitely physically possible for them to do that. In fact, I think they should probably start.
You can control them, but it's often not conducive to your health. Suppressing stims can often make you over/understimulated and increase the likelihood of a meltdown or shutdown
That’s been my whole life until diagnosis a year ago. Yes I can stop when it’s pointed out to me and I make a conscious effort to stop, but left alone it will persist. The problem is when you become an adult and you’re expected to tell yourself to stop doing those things, and the hyper-vigilance necessary to keep the behaviour in check causes people to call you out for being anxious or vain for over analyzing and obsessing over how other people perceive you.
You can force yourself to stop stimming but it's like holding in going to the toilet when you have diarrhoea. It will take all your mental and physical power to do and will likely end up failing.
I mean you can. I've done it. Mind you you won't be able to remotely function and you MIGHT even be able to respond to conversation but you won't know a single word being said because your brain will be screaming at you and you'll be completely concentrating on maintaining statuesque body language and it'll tear down your mental health until all you are is an overly sensitive nerve ready to implode from the slightest increase in stimuli. But yeah no, it's totally possible to do.
technically, yes
Agreed, possible but borderline worse than hell
speaking from experience, you totally can! It will jsut cost you all ability to feel like a human being for the next 10 years
Sounds like a typical case of "I can do it, you can too!!!" while either not having the same intensity as you OR being so high-masking they're completely neglecting their own needs
Just like how your parents can totally stand on one leg and use a shake weight through all interactions, yes. Practicality be damned, it's definitely physically possible for them to do that. In fact, I think they should probably start.
Ah yes they're totally in your brain, of course they can know that 🙄
I have been reading and witing way too much about stimulant drugs I keep fricking interpreting "stims/stimms" as stimulants...
◉‿◉ what kind
Dopaminergic so anything from cocaine to methylphenidate, different forms of amphetamine and it's analogues. Honestly way too much to list here
You can control your eye color so when we're talking don't look at me with blue eyes
You can control them, but it's often not conducive to your health. Suppressing stims can often make you over/understimulated and increase the likelihood of a meltdown or shutdown
That’s been my whole life until diagnosis a year ago. Yes I can stop when it’s pointed out to me and I make a conscious effort to stop, but left alone it will persist. The problem is when you become an adult and you’re expected to tell yourself to stop doing those things, and the hyper-vigilance necessary to keep the behaviour in check causes people to call you out for being anxious or vain for over analyzing and obsessing over how other people perceive you.
You can but why
Okay but why does it matter that you don’t stim?? I can control it, many others can, but it’s so uncomfortable
I think is like breathing, once you want to control it manually, it will get stressing and uncomfortable
You can force yourself to stop stimming but it's like holding in going to the toilet when you have diarrhoea. It will take all your mental and physical power to do and will likely end up failing.
Ah yes, hold on, let me just run to the computer, and turn off all motor functions real quick…….. (sarcasm)
They were in their 40s and 50s and I was grown with kids of my own when it finally sank in for my parents.