I want to add onto this that OP could also maybe try and find other outlets aside from verbal stimming that they can try to turn to when in an environment that expects people to be quiet/silent. I know it could be hard, and I doubt it'd stop the verbal stimming entirely (honestly, I wouldn't expect it to) but it would still be useful to have other outlets rather than noise making.
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Speaking from experience, noise making - especially repetitive noise - can drive people absolutely mad if they have to hear it for an extended period of time. I tend to whistle when bored and I have like 2-3 tunes that I do on repeat: Twisted nerve, lost woods and imperial march. Unfortunately for my coworkers, I am able to whistle very loudly.
It doesn't bother regardless of how much I whistle those tunes, but my coworkers who - if I'm placed at self checkout - can hear it for around ~8 hours in a day? It gets annoying quick and they didn't start out coming up to me and letting me know that the whistle was getting irritating. They'd just try to ignore it, but that isn't fair to them; it may have been keeping me from going insane from boredom, but it was driving them to insanity.
In the end I think they ended up joking with me about it, and that caused me to realize I was whistling perhaps more than I realized and I told them why I was doing it - not to be annoying, but because it was basically my idle mode - and that I would do my best to have something else - something quite - to do but that if I did whistle, it wasn't intentional and they could tell me to stop and I wouldn't be mad.
I've since started carrying baoding balls or a deck of cards with me, that way instead of occupying my mind with a whistle, I can do something with my hands to keep my mind from driving me crazy due to boredom. Sometimes I still whistle out of habit, but I have my other outlets to turn to instead or when I catch myself whistling (or when I don't but my coworkers do and decide they need me to stop).
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I want to add onto this that OP could also maybe try and find other outlets aside from verbal stimming that they can try to turn to when in an environment that expects people to be quiet/silent. I know it could be hard, and I doubt it'd stop the verbal stimming entirely (honestly, I wouldn't expect it to) but it would still be useful to have other outlets rather than noise making.
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Speaking from experience, noise making - especially repetitive noise - can drive people absolutely mad if they have to hear it for an extended period of time. I tend to whistle when bored and I have like 2-3 tunes that I do on repeat: Twisted nerve, lost woods and imperial march. Unfortunately for my coworkers, I am able to whistle very loudly.
It doesn't bother regardless of how much I whistle those tunes, but my coworkers who - if I'm placed at self checkout - can hear it for around ~8 hours in a day? It gets annoying quick and they didn't start out coming up to me and letting me know that the whistle was getting irritating. They'd just try to ignore it, but that isn't fair to them; it may have been keeping me from going insane from boredom, but it was driving them to insanity.
In the end I think they ended up joking with me about it, and that caused me to realize I was whistling perhaps more than I realized and I told them why I was doing it - not to be annoying, but because it was basically my idle mode - and that I would do my best to have something else - something quite - to do but that if I did whistle, it wasn't intentional and they could tell me to stop and I wouldn't be mad.
I've since started carrying baoding balls or a deck of cards with me, that way instead of occupying my mind with a whistle, I can do something with my hands to keep my mind from driving me crazy due to boredom. Sometimes I still whistle out of habit, but I have my other outlets to turn to instead or when I catch myself whistling (or when I don't but my coworkers do and decide they need me to stop).