#fidgit cube

My ever dying need of a fidgit cube grows immensely unfortunately I am a broke bean and have no ide wear I could even get one 🤷‍♀️

This may be an unpopular opinion, but… I think that while neurotypicals can certainly find fidget toys to be useful, the way it is becoming increasingly popularized by neurotypicals is kinda trivializing and ignoring the true purpose of these fidget/stim toys? Like if you’re neurotypical or neurodivergent and you use fidget spinners for fidgeting purposes to help you keep calm and concentrate, great, but the way this stuff is being promoted is more as a regular old “toy” than for its intended purpose and I find that to be problematic. The people trivializing fidget toys aren’t all neurotypicals as well; some of them are neurodivergent, but I find it’s a lot more common for neurotypicals to dismiss the purpose of fidget toys and popularize them for an arbitrary purpose rather than neurodivergent people, the people these fidget toys were originally intended for.

@ nts with fidgit toys: youd better stop shoving it in my god damn face unless you plan on letting me use it, asshole

I'm getting pretty tired of the increasing amount of celebrities/people with a large following, publicly hating on fidget/stim toys, and calling them and the people who use them dumb etc. Not many extremely high profile people are doing this as far as I know, but people with a large easily influenced following are. This includes everyone's favourite... what does he do again? Yes, Tom Harlock. Now I mean no offense to him as a person, but he has somewhat communicated before that he has some form of mental illness which could include anxiety. So surely, you would think, he'd know not to influence his absolutely massive following to hate on these toys that as well as being stim toys, help people with anxiety. The same can be said for (ex-My Chemical Romance guitarist) Frank Iero, who I know for a /fact/ has dealt with depression, and had close friends with anxiety. His following is also largely mentally ill teenagers. Despite this he spoke negatively about fidget toys, and multiple friends of mine told me that made them feel kinda shit. The main issue with these somewhat high profile people speaking negatively about fidget toys is their ability to influence their following, which in one of the two cases I've experienced first hand**. I would just... rather that a large demographic of people my age would stay on favour of mainstream stim toys, for mine and others' sake.