A Parent to Parent Discussion about Stimming
Autism Live
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The Importance of Self-Soothing in Autism
Stimming came from self-stimulatory behavior, but it is what they call a misnomer. Sometimes people are doing the behavior to self-soothe. People notice when individuals who are on the spectrum stim because sometimes their stims are different looking than for people who don't have autism. But guess what? We all stim. The person at Miriam Webster who wrote this definition, stims. And I don't know whether they're on the spectrum or not, but I know that they stim. So this makes me hot under the collar. Now that you know that absolutely everybody's stims, my question for you is how do you stim? What do you do?
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