Robots stimming

shocktrooper-redstreaker:

This is gonna be geared towards Transformers but I tried to make it closer to general robot stuff and also it got long but then I forgot some of the stuff I was gonna write

• I mean of course there’s the human like stims (flappy hands, rocking, leg bounce, pen click, etc)
• Tapping on hollow body parts!  Makes a good echo-y sound and the drumming probably feels good too.
• Shifting and clicking moving components, or getting extra bits installed specifically for that purpose!
• Got a wheel?  Spin it.  Spin the wheel.
• Get an analog clock so you can listen to it click
• Have a tinted HUD so it filters out bright lights or supplies stimmy stuff like goop videos to help calm the bot down
• Listen to your buddy’s engine rumble
• Record Good Sounds and play them back
• More extreme echolalia than in humans, to the point of only communicating through recordings or having a massive database of just… sounds
• Driving or flying if the robot turns into something
• Obsessive self-maintenance

Feel free to add on to this if you wish!