riversticks:

the whole “only neurodivergent people are ALLOWED to use fidget/stim/chew toys” thing blows my fuckin mind anyway because it creates a completely imaginary divide between How Neurotypicals Work and How We Work that doesnt exist in reality. neurotypical people totally have stimming behaviors they just arent pathologized? thats kind of the whole point of neurodiversity, that we arent inherently Sick, we’re just pathologized arbitrarily?

to pretend that an action (stimming: for fun, or to concentrate, or to express yourself, or to reduce stress/anxiety) is “correct” in the hands of someone with the Right Diagnosis and “frivolous, wasteful, or disrespectful” in the hands of someone without that diagnosis is…. totally fuckin ridiculous, inherently, and not based in any factual representation of how people’s brains work