Autism stimming is often misunderstood and people wonder why do autistic people stim? In this video talking about autism stimming, I show some stimming examples and share my thoughts on why autistic people stim?

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Stimming or selfstimulatory behaviour by definition can be a repetitive autism behaviour for autistic people which involves repetitive movements or sounds. Autistic people of all ages stim, autistic kids stim, autistic adults stim to some degree.

Examples of stimming include biting fingernails, hair twirling, cracking knuckles, drumming your fingers, whistling. Autism stimming is typically more repetitive and noticeable in comparison with rocking, autistic flap hands, bouncing, jumping, walking on tiptoes, repetitive blinking, rearranging objects as some autistic stimming examples.

These types of autism stimming are a fraction of the different autistic stims that there are out there but stimming in its nature is a way for autistic people to selfsooth when feeling overwhelmed or overstimulated (hypersensitive). Sometimes it's to create sensory stimulus due to being understimulated (hyposensitive). Stimming could be due to sensory issues so autistic people might stim due to it being a stimming behavior.

These are really broad explanations to why autistic people have stimming behaviours. Stimming is not exclusive to autism as it appears in those with ADHD, Aspergers, anxiety etc as well as neurotypicals/nonautistics.

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