stim
v.— «As she looked around, she saw some of the children shaking, others humming and showing other forms of “stimming” in the parlance of those suffering from autism.» —“Mothers help put face to autism” by Patrick Cady Eudora News (Kan.) Mar. 9, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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