When you fidget, what do you do?

@caccoon my daughter scratches and pinches herself when she's extremely upset. I do my knee thing or I pace constantly cannot sit down at all

@Bexsy it's so strange how our brain makes us do those things.

But it's also interesting how we can do things to trick our mind into feeling better, just by changing what our body is doing. Like forcing a soft smile, opening our hands, changing our posture... Breathing... Etc.

But hard to do in moments of distress 😔

I hope you are both okay 💙💙

@caccoon 💙💙we are doing good. She had a bad day yesterday but today lots better

@Bexsy aww poor thing. Can I ask what happened?

@caccoon she couldn't get one of her youtube videos to play then one the shows she has recorded only recorded half the episode. Plus other things that to her mind was one big giant shitstorm ( shes nonverbal) so only way she knkws to express the frustration and rage is destruction and scratching, pinching, biting herself. Etc. When i intervene to make sure she doesn't hurt herself..i get pinched, scratch etc

@Bexsy oh no, I'm so sorry. that must be really hard. 😔 I hope eventually there will be a way for her to cope with frustrating feelings in a different way 💙💙