stim
v.— «We call these things “stims,” for self-stimulatory behavior. His need to obsess over things in ritualistic ways is not unlike the seeming need of young deaf or blind people to move their heads or sway.» —“The Invisible Boy; A Skittish World Misses the True Beauty of Our Autistic Son” by Lana Hurt Washington Post (C5) Aug. 11, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Responding to our discussion about thin places, those spots where the boundary between this world and other realities seems narrow or permeable, a listener in Kirkland, Washington, sent us some eloquent thoughts about her own experiences of that...
Following our conversation about the use of the term devil strip to denote the strip of land between sidewalk and street, listeners chimed in with other terms from their areas. In Portland, Maine, some people call it a hell strip. In Washington...