overexplainingautistic:

wetwareproblem:

elzear-stims:

I’m really tired of complaints about “neurotypicals” playing with stim toys. I would really appreciate it if people stopped assuming everyone around them is neurotypical, some people are on meds, others can pass as neurotypical and honestly you can never truly know unless someone tells you, and no one owes you that. I get countless messages about people suddenly recognizing what stimming is because they see me stimming on my blog. Stop trying to restrict stim toys, you don’t know if that random person you’re complaining about is neurotypical, and honestly someone else could be thinking the same thing about you …. and reminder I was called annoying and distracting in class for stimming without stim toys. This is an Ableism problem, and the root of this problem is with teachers and administrations, and the assumption that everyone you see is neurotypical.

Normalize stimming and stim toys.

I would rather everyone be able to be seen with stim toys. If they’re an exclusive thing, then they could become a sort of tool to out people as ND. That would restrict some people from using stim toys that would be otherwise helpful, if passing as NT is something they need to do. If everyone can use stim toys, then that becomes less of an issue in those cases.

Normalizing good things is really helpful.