Jessi Brown said she never wants to stop her kids from being who they are. One mom is making it her mission to champion her kids with autism by sharing and not suppressing their stimming behaviors.

Stimming helps people with autism regulate their emotions and behavior. Stimming includes auditory, tactile, visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive actions. Stimming also occurs in people with ADHD ...

It's stimming, short for the medical term self-stimulatory behaviours - a real mouthful. Stimming might be rocking, head banging, repeatedly feeling textures or squealing. You'll probably have seen ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

Stimming—short for "self-stimulatory behavior"—is a form of self-soothing commonly seen in autistic people. It can involve repetitive movements, sounds, or actions and is commonly regarded in medical ...

Why this mom doesn't stop her kids with autism from 'stimming' Jessi Brown is an autism advocate who uses her Instagram account, @siblingsonthespectrum, to share how her children express themselves ...

Stimming can be of different types depending on the cause of it. It also depends whether it is due to any underlying condition. Stimming behaviors can cause problems in day-to-day life. Repiritive ...

"I feel the urge to move my hands and when I do, when I move my hands rapidly back and forth, I'm expressing this joy. I'm generating it, it creates it, it uplifts it even." What kind of joyous ...

People with autism often face a stigma for stimming — a repetitive behavior to regulate emotions that can sometimes look like someone flapping their hands or wiggling their fingers. The children’s ...