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What are some of your unmasked behaviors? (lemmy.autism.place)
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What behaviors do you conduct when completely unmasked?

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[โ€“] Chubberknuckles 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've been reclaiming some stims/behaviors that I supressed for many, many years. They include:

Singing my thoughts out loud(terribly)

Prancing around the house on my toes.

Swinging arms around wildly.

I hit the back of my head against car seat/desk chair, not to the point of harm.

Unmasked for me means scripts are gone. I take much longer to take in and process questions, and to create responses.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Singing my thoughts out loud(terribly)

Prancing around the house on my toes.

Swinging arms around wildly.

I hit the back of my head against car seat/desk chair, not to the point of harm.

How is it that we both do the same stuff in secret without anyone ever teaching us?? ๐Ÿ˜ฆ