per aspera ad astra

me: *is bored for 0.5 seconds*

if we're friends or even just mutuals on here:

Hey, so, i’m all for this sudden trend of neurotypicals using fidgets and stim toys (mainly fidget cubes and spinners bit still), like its helping normalise them, thats great, but PLEASE be respectful with how you use them.

Also for people that are like: but why can’t we all use stim toys why do you think you need it more than me? That’s a great question, many neurodivergent people with ADHD and autism get easily overwhelmed or have trouble focusing in academic spaces. Some people have specific anxiety (not just like nervousness like full scale panic attack have a hard time every day anxiety) around academic spaces. Stimming is the term used by the neurodirvergent community to describe any repetitive movement or fidgeting that helps alleviate the symptoms of being overwhelmed or distracted. People stim all sorts of ways but fidget cubes and hand spinners were literally invented for neurodivergent people to have a safe way to stim and cope in a public place. (Without stim toys many neurodivergent people have to either tap or pick at their skin to stim and so having an object to stim with is really helpful.) Being able to use stim toys in class is really helpful in terms of making school even something that is possible to get through for neurodivergent people so it’s super important that we are still able to use them without them getting confiscated.