I don't know if anyone has found this but when people with asperges get anxious or distressed, they usually have a comfort thing. Whats all of yours?. Mine is listening to music and crawling in my bed and never coming out.
I have my private room, and there is a computer with Internet, good loudspeakers and a sound deadning door
And also a pair of boxing-gloves, wich I use from time to time to fight the walls.
When I'm outside the house, I have earplugs and a marvel-ball wich I love to turn in my left hand.
mine is deffinatly my dvd's and my bedroom
Watching a movie (funny or silly movie) on bigscreen while eat/drinking a chocolate shake made with chocolate milk and rocky road ice cream. Usually with chocolate chip cookies! (Must be dipped into the shake and let to sit to get soft a couple at a time /hehe.)
When I retreat under the covers sometimes the cat sticks her claws through or tries to scratch me. Maybe she does not like being excluded. She meows pitifully when I come home and the first thing I do is head for the john, door closed.
I play the piano, if I can- the sound and the feeling of the keys under my fingers calm me. Otherwise, listen to the radio, speech only, to block out the rest.
When i get anxious I either jump under a heavy blanket and draw, do math, or go to sleep. All of these are comforting, I make sure to have no music on and lay down and enjoy the quiet. When walking around my comfort items are my hat and my jacket, these are on me at all times, even when sleeping. I like the weight of the hat, and the jacket makes me feel clothed. Most times when sleeping(or sitting watching t.v.) I have to put a pillow on my body, a big or small pillow, the weight is relaxing.
Does anyone else use pillows for comfort?
Does anyone else use pillows for comfort?
Indeed. I also sleep most comfortably with my head under the pillow. It is my fear that I'll one day choke of it, but it's probably an irrational fear; I don't think it could really happen.
I used to have with myself an 'Esc' key from my old keyboard
But I've lost it
What replaced it, is a dice (I mean, the one you play games with).
That's what I take out when I can't be in my room with door closed and music on (or just lie there in silence, depends on how I feel).
I like to retreat to the sanctuary of my bed and rub my eyebrow with my middle finger whilst sucking my thumb (embarrassingly enough!)
I go for a walk. There's another thing I do when things get too much for me, but I don't think that's classified as a comfort.
My daughter (aspie) rubs her head furiously until her hair matts into a felt-like mass.
A myriad of thing's really. X3
- Listening to my music, being on the internet optional.
- Playing my DS or reading my manga...
- Escaping to my dream-world.
- Petting my cat. ^o^
- Taking deep breaths, like qsuedo-meditation.
*shrugs* Yep. Always have my DS or iPod on me when I go outside.
Being in cold places. Or hot places. I dont feel temperature, thus, any chance I get to feel even mildly like that is good.
I lie in bed, underneath my duvet. There is nothing more cozy than my duvet. I also love to rub material together, silky material calms me down or things that I have rubbed so often they feel silky (e.g. the right corner of my pajama tops, my pillow case).
When i'm out in public I listen to my ipod, it hurts my ears when i'm stressed which is why I don't listen to it when upset at home, but in public it's the best I have.