I rock back and fourth 24/7.

I don’t know why but I’ve always rocked my body back and forth, it feels relaxing and kind soothes me. Does anybody else do this or know what it’s about?

I’ve done it my whole life and the more stressed I get the more intense the rocking become.

I’m always told “STOP ROCKING” or “BE STILL” but cannot stop myself for very long I don’t even notice I’m doing it most of the time.

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Bleed · 41-45, F

It’s a form of stimming or self soothing usually linked to autism or ADHD

Sleepysheep · 26-30, M

@Bleed It does put me at ease when I don’t sway it feels like a bomb going off in my chest.

Bleed · 41-45, F

@Sleepysheep Have you ever goggled the conditions?

Sleepysheep · 26-30, M

@Bleed No ma am, Though I was in special education, most people with autism are smart yet I notice don’t really function right.

Like they put 2 different shoes on the wrong feet and their shirt on backwards if they they aren’t helped.

Yet they are some of the smartest people I ever met in my life, I am not smart let alone autistic people smart.

How can a person break a mathematical formula fast than a calculator struggle to comb their hair, brush their teeth and get dressed was always beyond me.

As a kid my best friend with autism would twist his ear like a car key and make car sounds and I’d have to tell him he’s a car or he’d lose his mind!

As we got older he grew 3 whole hairs on his face and will make me CONFIRM with him that he is now in fact an adult man. Or he will lose his ever loving mind.

He also had asbergers so I don’t know if that could maybe be what that was too I don’t know.

Bleed · 41-45, F

@Sleepysheep Not all autistic people are super intelligent. And often their area of knowledge is their hyper focus. Do you watch the same movies over and over or find a new song you like and have it on repeat 500 times?

Sleepysheep · 26-30, M

@Bleed I’m very bad for the repeat button, I’m also very picky on my movies and have been removed from theatres for my ire at the big screen..

$21 a person they charged us to watch fast and furious 8, I was “Escorted” out of the theatre while people clapped to put it mildly..

It made no fucking sense if a submarine hit an iceberg it would explope especially with the torpedoes on board!

The expect me the $21 a ticket audience member to believe a submarine casually DROVE THROUGH SOLID ICE just to chase vin diesel (and friends) in their muscle cars?! NONSENSE! 😡

Bleed · 41-45, F

@Sleepysheep A strict view of rules and fairness is also an indicator.

Sleepysheep · 26-30, M

@Bleed Well I have obscured views on rules, so yes some are good and important, for the most part I never fit into society because of all my flaws.

In return I sat back and see what made me so different, and see and the flaws with society.

Once I seen how messed up society was I cared less about fitting in.

I was told everybody is unique no one person is has, or ever will be 100% the same, If that’s true how can we have groups of people and categorize them with labels?

What makes me different and them normal if nobody is alone how can we even gauge a standard for normal?

(sorry for the babbling, I mean “you” in a general sense and not “you” personally.)