The comfort that Scott gets out of this particular stim is sort of multilayered. first, there’s the effort of venting his frustrations with any given thing that’s going on through the energy he puts into messing up his hair. Then, there’s the phase of getting to look at his mussed up hair in the mirror if he has one and regardless of the mirror phase, there’s the process of slowly combing his fingers through his hair without straightening it out or anything, just enjoying the texture of it on his skin and how it feels as he rubs his fingers against each other with the hairs between them. And then, there’s the phase of straightening his hair out again and making it look like he hasn’t just been stimming, which…
well, that part is sort of complicated territory, because it can get thickety if Scott focuses too much on the “making it look like he hasn’t just been stimming” part of things? That can be really anxiety-inducing, sometimes to the point of Scott needing to get his hair messed up again, but the process of combing out his hair with his fingers and just gently smoothing everything out? That’s one of the most soothing and reassuring things that Scott knows in the entire world.
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-06 07:40 am (UTC)(link)well, that part is sort of complicated territory, because it can get thickety if Scott focuses too much on the “making it look like he hasn’t just been stimming” part of things? That can be really anxiety-inducing, sometimes to the point of Scott needing to get his hair messed up again, but the process of combing out his hair with his fingers and just gently smoothing everything out? That’s one of the most soothing and reassuring things that Scott knows in the entire world.