A Parent to Parent Discussion about Stimming
Autism Live
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The Importance of Accepting Yourself
The reasons why we engage in the stim and the thing that we do are all different. I had a friend who had a daughter who was not on the spectrum, but she was beautiful in an interesting way. People were calling it odd and weird. But with our kids, when our kids do something and we think they're going to be ostracized or they're being made fun of, we don't like it. And I'm not saying get over it. Acknowledge that that's what's going on because then you can cope with that in various ways.
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