Eli5 what is stimming and why are there so many videos of people acting as if they have multiple personality disorder?

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I just genuinely don’t get where this trend came from and what these people are tying to achieve from it? I mean artistic expression is great! But so these people actually believe that they have multiple personalities, and if so do the act the same way when they go out into society?

I’m just so..so confused..

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Stimming is usually done by people with autism. It Can be a way of expressing excitement or happiness, a form of stimulation or as a way of self soothing. Neurotypical people do this in some way shape or form as well such as wringing your hands together when you’re nervous and chewing on a pencil or tapping your foot. There’s not always a rhyme or reason to the behavior it just happens. There might be an internal change like a sudden feeling that prompts the need for the behavior that we can’t see which might show up to is a sudden change.

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