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Cognitive/mental stimming? (lemm.ee)
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Is there such a thing? I am not even 100% sure what I am talking about. I noticed with more unmasking I do more of this "deep think" thing. Thinking about some event, occasion, conversation either artificial, not artificial, happened or will happen in future so deep and in details that I could forget about surroundings or start to talk aloud before I notice that I am doing that. Is it part of stimming? Just found on another website that some people have similar experience and they would consider it as stimming. Do you know about some scientifical researches about particularly this type of stimming and what is your experience? Note that I (probably) mean type of stimming that does not require any physical, verbal, visional interactions with environment, but this stimming where only your thoughts are involved. What is your experience?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I do arithmetic problems. Not super complicated ones, but either unit conversions or guessing and checking cube roots or something similar.

I also imagine navigating places I haven’t been in a long time in a different way- I imagine a bouncy ball’s path through the building of my first job, or picture doing parkour through my elementary school (I’m not a parkour person).

I’m not sure if either 100% counts as stimming- I do both when I’m bored and have only begun to intentionally do the latter in stressful situations recently (it works beautifully though).

this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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