List of Stimming

VISUAL STIMMING

  • Watching the sun filter through a window

  • Aligning objects

  • Finding patterns on tiles

  • Sorting objects by colours/shapes

  • Focusing and blurring the gaze

  • Stare at one spot and blur the rest

  • Using glow sticks/other toys

  • Visual sensory toys

  • Looking at a painting

  • Watching dust motes in the light

  • Blinking rapidly

  • Looking at shiny things

  • Watching satisfying videos

  • Staring at lights or fans

  • Moving objects in front of the eyes

  • Looking at things from the "corner of the eye"

  • Turning lights on and off

  • Watching the rain fall/watching a thunderstorm

TACTILE STIMMING

  • Hugging something or someone

  • Petting an animal

  • Touching an object to feel its texture

  • Touching objects in passing

  • Touching hair

  • Touching fingertips

  • Touching the corners of the lips

  • Stroking lips with fingertips or tapping

  • Touching lips, biting lips or running tongue over lips

  • Touching a sensory toy

  • Scratching your head or any other part of your body

  • Clenching and unclenching fists

  • Squeezing the button on pens

  • Playing with jewellery

  • Wrapping/twisting fingers around fabric, t-shirt straps or other

  • Bumping wrists

  • Pinching the tip of the nose, eyebrows, etc.

  • Bumping teeth together repeatedly

  • Rubbing hands against clothing or others

  • Squeezing your hands/fists

  • Rubbing the palms of your hands/fingers

  • Playing with twisting a rubber band

  • Playing with your fingers/hands

  • Splashing hands in cold water

  • Running your hand over your forehead

  • Wiping your hand over your eye

  • Rolling objects between hands

  • Braiding hair

  • Pretending to play an instrument

  • Spelling with sign language

  • Breaking leaves or pieces of tree bark while walking

  • Breaking into many pieces and/or folding sugar envelopes

  • Pulling out body hair

OLFACTORY STIMMING

  • Smell something repeatedly

  • Smelling new

  • Smelling your pets

  • Smelling your loved ones

  • Smelling essential oils/candles

  • Using diffusers/incense

  • Smelling the clothes you've washed

  • Using bath bombs

  • Smelling food

TASTE STIMMING

  • Wearing chewelry

  • Eating something for the feel of its texture

  • Sucking on the sleeves of t-shirts

  • Repeatedly eating/sucking/slurping on something

  • Eating something to taste it

  • Eating spicy/sour/etc. food for the sensation it gives you

  • Eating raw pasta

  • Eating play dough/wax/paper or other inedible things

  • Thumb sucking/hair

  • Throat clearing/coughing repeatedly

  • Running tongue over teeth

  • Grinding teeth

  • Eating very slowly

  • Eating candy, lollipops, chewing gum

  • Nail biting

  • Eating the skin of fingers, lips, etc.

  • Biting the inside of my cheeks and sucking the blood

AUDITORY/VERBAL STIMMING

  • Hearing/singing the same song/songs on loop

  • Listening to a specific part of a song on loop

  • Listening to the sound of rain

  • Repeating phrases from movies/series/ mantras/catch phrases

  • Repeating words

  • Listen to any repetitive sound

  • Grunting

  • Yelling

  • Whispering/mumbling

  • Whistling/humming

  • Putting my ear close to the speakers

  • Turning on a household appliance to listen to it

  • Listening to music (at a very high volume) with headphones

  • Snapping my fingers

  • Count out loud

  • Clicking your tongue

  • Recite something from memory

  • Drumming

  • Listening to the sound of a seashell

  • Listening to nature sounds

  • Beatboxing/rapping

  • Making beats with my fingernails on a surface

  • Pretending to tickle the other person but with "tiki tiki tiki tiki" sounds

PROPRIOCEPTIVE/VESTIBULAR STIMMING

  • Jumping

  • Jumping rope

  • Use a balance board

  • Shake my head sideways

  • Twisting and turning

  • Dancing

  • Walking up and down the aisle

  • Flapping/flapping

  • Moving feet, hands, etc.

  • Walking on tiptoe, standing on the side of one foot or heel

  • Swinging

  • Contract and relax some muscle

  • Rocking back and forth

  • Shrugging shoulders

  • Using a weighted blanket

  • Opening and closing doors

  • Hanging from places

  • Laying face down on something

  • Hitting your head

  • Running

  • Spinning around in a chair with wheels

  • Swinging on a pendulum

  • Shake your head to a rhythm

OTHER STIMMING/COMBINED

  • Doodling

  • Looking for patterns on tiles or any other object

  • Reading license plates and the like

  • Memorizing things

  • Playing an instrument

  • Keyboarding

  • Painting

  • Assemble something with legos

  • Using a stimming toy

  • Lying on the floor/cold surface

  • Mentally counting/mentally repeating things

  • Crafts that require repetition/patterns

  • Collecting objects and sorting them, classifying them, observing them...

  • Hatha yoga or any sport that requires repetition

  • Folding my ears in on themselves

  • Do stretching

  • Doing puzzles/jigsaw puzzles/rubik's cube

  • Read the same book/books over and over

  • Shuffle cards, coins, etc.

  • Popping bubble wrap

  • Doing sudoku, looking for patterns