Wednesday, 11 November 2009

  • Peter's Latest Stimming

    For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term, "stimming" refers to self-stimulation and it's what children with autism do to keep themselves calm. For Peter, in the past he has run back and forth or spun in circles repeatedly. For some children, it's playing with string or turning the wheels of a toy car so that the wheels spin repeatedly.

    Peter's latest stimming technique is door opening and closing. Over and over and over and over. . . well, you get the idea. Nathan, fortunately, doesn't stim to the same obnoxious degree as his brother. Nathan likes to line things up or he'll hand-flap when he's excited. Peter has to physically involve himself in his stimming and the doors are the latest in what I am sure will be a life-long issue.

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    Have you ever seen someone stimming before?

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  • keystspf@xanga

    LOL... seen it? I do it. I will rock or bounce or play "air drums"... I guess that is like flapping maybe? When I hear flapping I get a very funny picture in my head... like a person acting like a bird... so it doesn't seem like an accurate word for what I do. My husband stops me when he catches me doing it in public. It is difficult to do because it is like an electric charge running down my arm that makes me need to move my hands. I do the same thing with bouncing my leg when I'm sitting down. Put a toy car in my hands, and I will spin the wheels until someone takes it away from me.


    I can control it. It takes conscious effort, but I can do it. It's kinda like switching gears.


  • AlterEgo909@xanga

    In the last play I was in the sister of my character was autistic and we had her jump up and down in place when nervous. I didn't know there was a proper name for it. 
  • rot_forme@xanga

    My brother is three and he was diagnosed with Autism about a year and a half ago. Before my family put him into pre-k with other Autistic kids he used to do repetitive things like that a lot. He would flap his hands, or try to bang his head. He still lines cars up and spins their wheels though.

  • the_kcar@xanga

    My youngest son's first Christmas, he didn't know or understand the why of a tree getting stuff put on it. He pulled out each decoration, sorted them on the floor by color, size, sparkle, and shine - and threw a fit when the pieces had to be picked back up and put back in the tree. This went on for days.

    This was before he was diagnosed.

    He has been known to drum his hands, flip/drag his fingers along his legs, twist his hair [leaving bald patches behind], rock from heel to toe to heel on his feet, etc.

    I've never had the autistic diagnosis but my "baby book" has notes of my spinning for hours until I'd collapse on the floor, getting up to do it again. I noted the same thing in my youngest, when he was little - although one stumble down a step cured that for him.

    He's high-functioning, though - and, eventually, became no-assist mainstreamed.

  • Lestat9Moriquendu@xanga

    kid in my college chem class would drive me crazy from having to watch him rubbing his legs and running his hand through his hair for 80 minutes. 

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