#i love Star Wars and i will gladly watch or research for reference

[stimtoybox]

Please welcome our fabulous new mods CD, Rainbow and Luna, who’ll be helping out with posts, describing, tagging, finding awesome things, all despite the difficulties of working with Tumblr! They’ve already in a day gotten more posts described and tagged than I could ever on my own, and you’ll be seeing their work around here as of tomorrow!

Mod CD

I’m 18, American, gray aroace, nonbinary, and autistic. I’m currently in college. I like video games [mostly The Sims 4, Minecraft, and Pokemon, but other things take up my time sometimes] and reading, when I remember to buy books to read.

Preferred Stims: Fidgets and chews, though I don’t have near as many chewables as I do fidget toys. I’ve also really started liking textured things lately.

Least-Preferred Stims: Chewables that are really hard to chew with back teeth.

Favorite Stim Toys: Currently, it’s the Tangle Jr Fuzzy, dulcimer pendant necklace, and these little silicon scrubbers.

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Personal: @boiflux

(Mod CD has a fabulous eye for detail when it comes to size, dimension, texture and experience of using the toy. I’ve learnt a great deal of how to improve my own reviews from theirs. - Mod K.A.)

Mod Rainbow

I’m Australian, white, 29, non-binary and queer. I’m autistic and live with multiple chronic illnesses and mental illnesses. I’m studying studying disability support work because I want to create more opportunities for autistic people in my city. I am also learning Auslan (Australian Sign Language), which I’ve been interested in since I was very young. I love being a able to spend my time and effort on my special interests.

Preferred Stims: My hands are always moving and I touch everything. My most used stim toys are the kind that sit on my desk or in my bag and end up in my hand without my having thought about it.

Least-Preferred Stims: I am allergic to latex, which is unfortunately in lots of toys that are stretchy, bouncy or inflatable.

Favourite Stim Toys:

From top left: Ark Super Star necklace, Power Rangers charger toy (it clicks), Abilitations fidget ball, jointed snake, Tangle DNA and marble maze Pronouns: they/they/theirs Personal: @pink-rainbow-sparkles | Instagram: pinkrainbowsparkles

(Mod Rainbow has a great eye for safety concerns and fabulous research and link-hunting skills. They’ve already helped this blog out a great deal by finding links and references. - Mod K.A.)

Mod Luna

-I’m a 22 year old cis female living in the United States. -I’m autistic as well as having ADHD, depression, anxiety, and chronic health issues. -I have a degree in English and I love the Oxford comma. -I will infodump at length about Star Wars.

Preferred Stims: Listening to the same song over and over, rocking, and touching soft things.

Least-Preferred Stims: Chewy things that are too tough.

Favourite Stim Toys: my ARK Bite Saber

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Stim Blog: @luna-stims.

Etsy: LunarOceanStudio.

(Mod Luna is a font of wisdom and happy to take messages about stim toys. She’s also much quicker at responding to things, so if you’ve sent me a message and I haven’t had enough spoons to get to it in a reasonable time frame, Luna will gladly help you out. - Mod K.A.)

And, in case anyone doesn’t know me when I’m not talking stim toys:

Mod K.A.

I’m an Aussie queer (pan, grey-ace, aro, genderless/trans), white Australian autistic with depression, anxiety, insomnia, chronic hand pain and a/an personality disorder/s the psychiatrists refuse to formally diagnose beyond mentioning clusters. I dabble in lots of different kinds of crafting while watching science fiction TV and listening to European metal, and am the owner of an embarrassingly large collection of fabric, glues and beads. In addition to stim toys, I collect (and craft clothing and accessories for) 1/6 scale fashion dolls. I’m also a self-published writer, editor and text designer who writes fantasy and spec-fiction novels about trans otherwise-disabled autistics. I say things in the most amount of words possible and am the mod behind the most ridiculously long text posts on this blog.

Preferred Stims: Anything that involves fidgeting and/or texture, although I also love items scented with natural essential oils. I’m good with crafting, DIYs and fidget toys of any kind.

Least-Preferred Stims: Any chewables that aren’t designed for light chewers.

Favourite Stim Toys:

Top: a red apple squishy, a coloured soccer-ball stress ball filled with crunchy pellets, a red prickle ball. Second row: a mini Mickey Disney Tsum Tsum plush, a pink/blue/yellow/clear Jangle Jr Textured, a purple/blue/pink mini snake puzzle, a yellow stretchy squish ball, an aqua and pink serpent puzzle. Third row: a yellow/dark blue/light blue/purple/red/green Tangle Jr Fuzzy, a green prickle creature, an orange makeup blending sponge. Bottom: a long, wearable bead lanyard I made with a bead ring attached to the end.

Pronouns: they/them/their or ze/hir/hir (no language traditionally associated with a binary gender, please).

Personal: @eldritchesoterica | Website: Queer Without Gender | Fiction: Bookshelf and The Unnatural Philosophy of Kit March

Image description under read more cut:

[image description: a coloured-striped header background bookended by a standing yellow-orange teddy bear vector image wearing an olive fishing hat and a blue fish and sitting brown teddy bear vector wearing a striped spinning-top hat and holding a green and grey pot of honey. White handwritten text, outlined in black, between the bears reads “The Stim Squad”.]