as an autistic person we stim to regulate our emotions. it helps us feel at ease or focused. this is typically when we feel we can’t control things or something is happening
So-called ‘experts’ need to stop trying to fix us. Stimming and other repetitive or specific behaviours aren’t necessary a response to an environmental stimulus, we sometimes just really, really like doing something and the absence or prevention of doing what we like will cause us stress and agitation. Everyone (including neurotypicals) has a preference, but the brains of most autistic people have less neuroplasticity and once we start doing something that we like, we then don’t like stopping it until we ‘choose’ something else that we like. Such aberrant plasticity is core to most of us and cannot be fixed without consequence. So, stop trying to fix behaviours just because they don’t match with the neurotypical norm.
what would you suggest to me, my son says he wants to stop the repetitive behaviors but feels like he HAS to do them.. they stop him from being able to play with others they stop him from getting on the computer (which he loves) hes constantly punnishing himself and making new rules for himself. I dont understand why he would do these things. I dont try to change him, I just keep trying to add positive thoughts to his mind.. But its not working. hes 14
@@AriahJames it's possible to have turrets, tics, dystonia, and all types of things that seem like stimming. If he wants to stop them and can't, get him to a good doctor or neurologist and don't try to be an internet doctor
@@thecrowsnest6963there could be many factors to seeking answers or suggestions from experienced people, which doesn't make someone an internet doctor.
It’s funny how a lot of people shout about not everyone stimms & stop trying to change us,but don’t consider what others in the spectrum deal with on a daily basis. I think that frustration comes from Aspies who have a VERY different life experience that others on the spectrum. No Autism doesn’t need to be cured, it’s not a disease. With such a large spectrum it’s impossible to not talk about it in general terms in these video formats. Stimming serves a purpose and for each autistic person it’s different and so is the stimm. But if an autistic person wants to be able to say have a job they can twirling around when ever they feel like it( could be dangerous in some circumstances). Learning the difference of why they stimm and where and when is important or spend so much time stimming they don’t get important thing done. Pay bills, show up for work, buy groceries. Please remember not everyone on the spectrum is an Aspie. Some have very deep struggles including self harm. Don’t judge ,support and understand.
Is half or greater of the population on the spectrum? It isn't an aberration from the norm if half or more of the Earth's population is demonstrably on the spectrum. Considering it's always been a minority of the population and the majority is what would be called "neurotypical", then it follows that it IS a disorder. May it isn't a 'disease" per se, but it is certainly an aberration. As someone who is neurodivergent (ADHD), I wish I could be rid of my condition so that I didn't have to deal with its limitations which affect me socially and, by extension, professionally. I think we should have the option to be 'cured', whatever that ends up looking like. Neuralink seems to be something which could potentially treat neurodivergence, so I'd like to explore that option for my own disorder once the technology matures. For those who don't want to change, let there be no obligation. For those who do, let them have the option.
This one video has explained so much to me. My son is 5 he stims, he also has much RRB. I used to allow him to do his RRB’s (playing a toy role playing game with me where the exact same script happens each day every day) but eventually i got frustrated and stopped doing the role plays with him. Those few days that I stopped him, he changed into a withdrawn sad little boy. He was off, he wasnt the same. I couldn’t see him like that and allowed his RRB’s again, and he was again the happy little boy. I now realise there must be some truth in the RRB’s as a reward feeling for them, it brings them pleasure. Once my boy gets these role plays out of his system each day he appears satisfied and less frustrated. So i let him do it. Its the best way and this video confirms it :-)
Some repetitive behaviours can also be seen as stereotypic: The body has an innate tendency to engage in motor activity, but cognitive limitations prevent the mind to provide specific plans and goals, so jactitation or other more or less complex patterns are performed. I ve been working with people that have severe forms of autism for many years, and often, long walks or if possible intense physical labour or sports will greatly reduce such stereotypical movements. Especially people with severe cognitive impairment are being led into physically passive lifestyles for various reasons, and for some, this is very detrimental. However, this is only one of many reasons for repetitive behaviour.
repetitive movements and hand flapping are NOT core Autism features. Some Spectrum people do but many do not. Stero-typing and generalizing about Autism, or related potential expressions of Autism There is a much wider diversity of Autism presentations than many videos imply.
I wonder if knuckle cracking and wriggling hands around wrists as though 'stretching' might be an adaptation or mask to cover a stim? I wriggle my knees back and forth sitting, it's a stim but at a desk it is not really apparent... or I lift my heels off the ground up and down really fast.. over and over, and when too tired I rock my knees back and forth instead of rocking my body with my wrists between my thighs to help push and pull. But you can't do that in an office, it looks weird.... so I adapted to moving parts of me under the desk. Just like it's handy to have apiece of paper to read when someone comes up, you can talk and appear to be engaged in the paper or computer screen, a very conscientious employee who is able to perform several tasks simultaneously and is more interested in getting work done than chatting at the water-cooler.
Hello, I'm a pediatric psychiatrist specializing in developmental disorders in Korea. I think this video will be very helpful for parents to understand about RRB. If you allow me, can I reuse it with translation when I explain RRB on our channel? Of course, I would like to introduce the site and source as well.
I wonder if repetitive behaviors can extend beyond just the body movement and onto other senses. One behavioral habit I've noticed on myself is whenever I watch UA-cam or other forms of media, there will sometimes be a very short moment that pleases me and I repeat that same clip sometimes up to 20. It's not that it's very funny, I don't think I laugh at them most of the time, but I still have the same urge to repeatedly click on that specific point of the video to fill in that stimuli.
Hello, I am an undergraduate student exploring the significance of fidgeting as a means of communication in nonverbal autistic individuals. Your video alluded that "others say there a way of communicating and expressing emotions." May you please provide the source for this claim? It would greatly help my research. Thank you very much. If anyone seeing this comment knows where I could potentially find the source, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
How many times do a person with autism have to be told a simple thing like: stop for example ? After you tell them they keep doing it , like 3 years old child. How can they understand to stop the repetions?
I don't think I have autism but I have social anxiety, and I have a habit of repeat specific movements, the most common is I sort of swish the saliva on either side of the mouth which I can hear the noise of I do this pretty much all day, it just comforts me, I kind of feel like I have something else from social anxiety but I dont know what, I've had many of these urges through my life I went from extremely exhausting eye squints, even had a vocal noise before but luckily that's gone now as it was so embarrassing I forced that one away, I don't know if it's just ticks because I know I'm doing them voluntarily, I just can't stop is it just ocd?
as an autistic person we stim to regulate our emotions. it helps us feel at ease or focused. this is typically when we feel we can’t control things or something is happening
So-called ‘experts’ need to stop trying to fix us. Stimming and other repetitive or specific behaviours aren’t necessary a response to an environmental stimulus, we sometimes just really, really like doing something and the absence or prevention of doing what we like will cause us stress and agitation. Everyone (including neurotypicals) has a preference, but the brains of most autistic people have less neuroplasticity and once we start doing something that we like, we then don’t like stopping it until we ‘choose’ something else that we like. Such aberrant plasticity is core to most of us and cannot be fixed without consequence. So, stop trying to fix behaviours just because they don’t match with the neurotypical norm.
what would you suggest to me, my son says he wants to stop the repetitive behaviors but feels like he HAS to do them.. they stop him from being able to play with others they stop him from getting on the computer (which he loves) hes constantly punnishing himself and making new rules for himself. I dont understand why he would do these things. I dont try to change him, I just keep trying to add positive thoughts to his mind.. But its not working. hes 14
@@AriahJames it's possible to have turrets, tics, dystonia, and all types of things that seem like stimming. If he wants to stop them and can't, get him to a good doctor or neurologist and don't try to be an internet doctor
@@thecrowsnest6963 Tourette's*
@@AriahJames That looks like OCD.
@@thecrowsnest6963there could be many factors to seeking answers or suggestions from experienced people, which doesn't make someone an internet doctor.
It’s funny how a lot of people shout about not everyone stimms & stop trying to change us,but don’t consider what others in the spectrum deal with on a daily basis. I think that frustration comes from Aspies who have a VERY different life experience that others on the spectrum. No Autism doesn’t need to be cured, it’s not a disease. With such a large spectrum it’s impossible to not talk about it in general terms in these video formats. Stimming serves a purpose and for each autistic person it’s different and so is the stimm. But if an autistic person wants to be able to say have a job they can twirling around when ever they feel like it( could be dangerous in some circumstances). Learning the difference of why they stimm and where and when is important or spend so much time stimming they don’t get important thing done. Pay bills, show up for work, buy groceries.
Please remember not everyone on the spectrum is an Aspie. Some have very deep struggles including self harm. Don’t judge ,support and understand.
Is half or greater of the population on the spectrum? It isn't an aberration from the norm if half or more of the Earth's population is demonstrably on the spectrum. Considering it's always been a minority of the population and the majority is what would be called "neurotypical", then it follows that it IS a disorder. May it isn't a 'disease" per se, but it is certainly an aberration. As someone who is neurodivergent (ADHD), I wish I could be rid of my condition so that I didn't have to deal with its limitations which affect me socially and, by extension, professionally. I think we should have the option to be 'cured', whatever that ends up looking like. Neuralink seems to be something which could potentially treat neurodivergence, so I'd like to explore that option for my own disorder once the technology matures. For those who don't want to change, let there be no obligation. For those who do, let them have the option.
This one video has explained so much to me. My son is 5 he stims, he also has much RRB. I used to allow him to do his RRB’s (playing a toy role playing game with me where the exact same script happens each day every day) but eventually i got frustrated and stopped doing the role plays with him. Those few days that I stopped him, he changed into a withdrawn sad little boy. He was off, he wasnt the same. I couldn’t see him like that and allowed his RRB’s again, and he was again the happy little boy. I now realise there must be some truth in the RRB’s as a reward feeling for them, it brings them pleasure. Once my boy gets these role plays out of his system each day he appears satisfied and less frustrated. So i let him do it. Its the best way and this video confirms it :-)
Some repetitive behaviours can also be seen as stereotypic: The body has an innate tendency to engage in motor activity, but cognitive limitations prevent the mind to provide specific plans and goals, so jactitation or other more or less complex patterns are performed. I ve been working with people that have severe forms of autism for many years, and often, long walks or if possible intense physical labour or sports will greatly reduce such stereotypical movements. Especially people with severe cognitive impairment are being led into physically passive lifestyles for various reasons, and for some, this is very detrimental. However, this is only one of many reasons for repetitive behaviour.
Please, could you activate subtitles? I'm autistic, I have some difficulties in following your rapid speech. Thank you.
You can always slow down the speed, by pressing the Settings icon on the video, and adjusting the playback speed.
@yuqinglee7583scammer alert
repetitive movements and hand flapping are NOT core Autism features. Some Spectrum people do but many do not. Stero-typing and generalizing about Autism, or related potential expressions of Autism There is a much wider diversity of Autism presentations than many videos imply.
I wonder if knuckle cracking and wriggling hands around wrists as though 'stretching' might be an adaptation or mask to cover a stim? I wriggle my knees back and forth sitting, it's a stim but at a desk it is not really apparent... or I lift my heels off the ground up and down really fast.. over and over, and when too tired I rock my knees back and forth instead of rocking my body with my wrists between my thighs to help push and pull. But you can't do that in an office, it looks weird.... so I adapted to moving parts of me under the desk. Just like it's handy to have apiece of paper to read when someone comes up, you can talk and appear to be engaged in the paper or computer screen, a very conscientious employee who is able to perform several tasks simultaneously and is more interested in getting work done than chatting at the water-cooler.
Stereotyped behaviour is a core feature, of autism, actually.
June 24th 2021 was "National Handshake Day". So, it is nice to get some recognition.
Hello, I'm a pediatric psychiatrist specializing in developmental disorders in Korea. I think this video will be very helpful for parents to understand about RRB. If you allow me, can I reuse it with translation when I explain RRB on our channel? Of course, I would like to introduce the site and source as well.
Gostaria muito desse vídeo traduzido para o português
I am 40 years old and I rock back and forth for my whole life for at least 3-5 hours a day. I thought it was weird but comfortable.
I wonder if repetitive behaviors can extend beyond just the body movement and onto other senses. One behavioral habit I've noticed on myself is whenever I watch UA-cam or other forms of media, there will sometimes be a very short moment that pleases me and I repeat that same clip sometimes up to 20. It's not that it's very funny, I don't think I laugh at them most of the time, but I still have the same urge to repeatedly click on that specific point of the video to fill in that stimuli.
it does! i’m autistic and most autistic people love replaying songs, special visuals or smells. stimming can be all of the senses
Wait. Im searching this online and didnt get any behavior like what im doing until ive read your comment. This is exactly me.
Hello, I am an undergraduate student exploring the significance of fidgeting as a means of communication in nonverbal autistic individuals. Your video alluded that "others say there a way of communicating and expressing emotions." May you please provide the source for this claim? It would greatly help my research. Thank you very much.
If anyone seeing this comment knows where I could potentially find the source, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
I always have to have music with me its very repetitive for me
It would be interesting to know which research you are referring to when talking about the reward circuit response to restricted behaviours.
I have anxiety stims, and then I also have pleasure stims. They're not always the same.
I am seeking approval to share this video in a work setting. Who can I contact?
How many times do a person with autism have to be told a simple thing like: stop for example ? After you tell them they keep doing it , like 3 years old child. How can they understand to stop the repetions?
I don't think I have autism but I have social anxiety, and I have a habit of repeat specific movements, the most common is I sort of swish the saliva on either side of the mouth which I can hear the noise of I do this pretty much all day, it just comforts me, I kind of feel like I have something else from social anxiety but I dont know what, I've had many of these urges through my life I went from extremely exhausting eye squints, even had a vocal noise before but luckily that's gone now as it was so embarrassing I forced that one away, I don't know if it's just ticks because I know I'm doing them voluntarily, I just can't stop is it just ocd?
Love the video editing and graphics
Thank's for the information
Bro for me this feels like an instinct in someway
can't we just stim and do other things at the same time? it helps focus.
Spining a small closed pocket knife in the fingers !
Excellent share, Thankyou.
I have autism too
Is your serious?
My autistic child is very talkative, are other ?
Very informative and interesting video
Let Gods angels soar! 🕊🦋🦇🦅🦢😇
This is impossible to watch because of the music.
Would turning on captions and turning off sound help?
God help me after watching this video
Eat ,sleep ,shit repeat repeat the recycle
What do you mean actually???
DOWN WITH THE ITSMS, DOWN WITH THE TISMS
😂