stimming
v.— «Other students performed tasks to play with nail polish or perfume, or to spend a few minutes “stimming,” or self-stimulating, with a bucket of colored buttons.» —“From Closet To Classroom: Schools And The Disabled Part Iii: Severely Handicapped—The Biggest Challenge” by Christopher Connell, Lee Mitgang AP Oct. 27, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...
Amid court-ordered busing in the 1970s, a middle-school teacher tried to distract her nervous students on the first day of class with this strange assignment: find a monarch caterpillar. The result? A memorable lesson in the miracle of metamorphosis...