I’ve heard the term “stimming” before, and never had a clear answer on what it meant. After taking a look through this thread, I now have yet another thing to add to the list of obvious symptoms I should have seen in myself years ago.

I have a tendency to take things apart, or move whatever moveable pieces are on something. I’ve made little toys/implements to enable this at work so I’m not just taking pens apart.

My mom has brought it to my attention that I do hand motions when I’m stressing a convo with her. So now I’m aware of it at times. Kind of looks like I’m doing poor imitations of like Naruto hand jitsu stuff. Likely have some other stuff but I’m not aware of them.

I was diagnosed late at 34. I’m slowly learning about how well I’ve been masking EVERYTHING. My lip biting, nail biting, and I sucked my thumb until I was 14 used to just be “bad habits” but now I know it’s stimming. I was heavily bullied as a kid for what I thought was “no reason” but I’m starting to think that they picked up on on the autism and excluded me for it. My diagnosis came with questions AND answers.