oral habits of mine, which are disadvantageous:

• chewing on plastic objects at my desk (bad for object)
• chewing on metal objects at my desk (bad for teeth)
• biting my nails
• whistling (oral stim kinda thing; annoying because it’s involuntary)
• sucking on / chewing on hoodie strings, and other items of such nature (not necessarily that bad for hoodie? but it looks ugly)

historically, I can resolve most of these by having snacks always available. tasty yummy. but like damn. it’s impossible to have an endless supply of potato chips or popcorn or whatever, plus I get tired of it, plus it leaves stuff between my teeth (sensory nightmare), plus it’s not necessarily healthy?

however all of these are also resolved by pacifier. highly recommend to anyone experiencing one or more of above issues.

@sodiboo need paci

@tauon yes . highly recommend

@sodiboo saaame, i can’t help but chew on EVERYTHING

getting a chew toy helped for a while, until i chewed it to death

@luna it is possible to fuck up a pacifier from chewing . I think “teether” is like a pacifier but chew toy but for human. no experience with them but might be something you need. although a lot of my behaviors involve chewing, I find that mainly I need to occupy my mouth. like, in a social context I actually don’t need a pacifier at all because talking satisfies my oral needs. but in solitude, a pacifier is perfect . something to suck on.

@sodiboo yeah i was gonna say that just sounds like you need a chewtoy or a pacifier

@luna I can help the chewing but I can’t help the “mouth always needs to be doing something”

@sodiboo Yea definitely same, i just need my mouth to be busy

the thing that i had was essentially just a piece of relatively hard silicone, and i think it was one of those. it managed to survive for a surprisingly long time

@sodiboo yeah paci good

@sodiboo i need a pacifier or a proper chew toy it seems.

@sorrowl yes! and I implore you and all the others in the replies to go purchase one! totally worth it

@sodiboo what about sucking on someone’s arm

@cuddlebug this also satiates the oral fixation but I don’t have someone’s arm available most of the time also it leaves bruises

@sodiboo i used mine earlier deffo should do it more