stim v.— «I stim almost all the time. I stim when happy, tired, excited, concentrating and overloaded. Part of being more myself is letting myself stim. if I’m not disrupting other people why should I have to stop? I don’t make loud stims...
stim v.— «Not all kids that stim have autism. Most often stimming is sensory-related thing. Does your child receive sensory integration therapy at all? It’s been my experience that if you take away the stim object, they either become very...
stim v.— «I have heard a few autistic people who are uncomfortable with the term stimming because most of their stims are involuntary. Personally I don’t see what the problem is even when it’s involuntary—I’m not totally convinced that my...
stim v.— «The clothes are the fifth set he’s had on this morning, because one of his “stims” (self-stimulatory behaviours) is to wet himself, just a little bit, and then change all his clothes.» —“Autists do everything...
stim v.— «The common factor here is that the activities and interests that high-functioning autistic adults use to share their own pleasures and to relate to each other’s experiences are often the very activities that people try to...
stim v. to self-stimulate; (specifically) among autistic people, to fixate on a comforting or compelling thing or action (such as rocking or humming); to perseverate. Also n., a (self-)stimulating thing or behavior. (source: Double-Tongued...