ComradeSharkfucker to neurodiverse@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago

how do you cope with understimulation?

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how do you cope with understimulation?

ComradeSharkfucker to neurodiverse@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago

I feel like I have been pacing and doomscrolling for hours. I think I’ve burned through like 20 sticks of incense just to watch the smoke. I NEED to do something but there is nothing I want to do.

Normally when it gets this bad I just smoke but I’m out of weed and that probabky isn’t a healthy coping mechanism anyway.

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I always stim on the smooth tags on my clothes by rubbing the smoothness together. Any type of satin-y material works. The best stim, constantly available and covert so you can stim in situations where it’s not safe to stim.
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  I have a bit of yarn that I play with

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