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27 Jul 2017, 11:24 pm

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Repetitive behaviors can manifest from jumbled and/or dulled (needing more) sensory input too.

segue? more context please...



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27 Jul 2017, 11:40 pm

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The original description in the DSM referred to: "Full Body Movements, such as rocking, swaying, hand-flapping, etc.", which non-autistic people rarely do, and most autistic people tend to do habitually.

Only in the last edition have "fidgets" entered into the description, and I still maintain that they are not the same thing. Stimming is a reaction that attempts to soothe an overwhelmed nervous system.

Fidgeting is just an occasional, meaningless and insignificant expression of nervous energy.

EVERYBODY fidgets.

Rocking is considered a kind of stimming, as I understand it. The introduction of "lesser" stimming, if you will, might be new to the DSM but I don't think that it is the same as normal fidgeting. Perhaps they are distinguished by degree. As the title of the thread states "clinical significance". NT's do not verbally stim (past a certain age) nor do they typically spend time staring at lights, patterns on walls, chew their fingers, etc, etc. Am I missing your point?



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28 Jul 2017, 12:18 am

Lumi wrote:
Repetitive behaviors can manifest from jumbled and/or dulled (needing more) sensory input too.


Yes!


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28 Jul 2017, 2:15 pm

soloha wrote:
Lumi wrote:
Repetitive behaviors can manifest from jumbled and/or dulled (needing more) sensory input too.

segue? more context please...


This link will help; scroll down for adult perspective http://www.sensory-processing-disorder.com/sensory-processing-disorders.html


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28 Jul 2017, 2:23 pm

Lumi wrote:
Repetitive behaviors can manifest from jumbled and/or dulled (needing more) sensory input too.


Definitely. I love your username, by the way. :)


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28 Jul 2017, 4:13 pm

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Lumi wrote:
Repetitive behaviors can manifest from jumbled and/or dulled (needing more) sensory input too.


Definitely. I love your username, by the way. :)

:) Thank you


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28 Jul 2017, 6:23 pm

A lot of people focus on stimming. "I don't think I stim" or "Is tapping your foot stimming?".

I don't think stimming itself is the issue. It's why someone is stimming.

Like I have a slightly chronic cough due to pollen allergies. That's a big difference from someone who has a chronic cough due to lung cancer. So it's not the coughing itself that's an issue, but rather why is someone coughing.



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28 Jul 2017, 8:15 pm

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A lot of people focus on stimming. "I don't think I stim" or "Is tapping your foot stimming?".

I don't think stimming itself is the issue. It's why someone is stimming.

Like I have a slightly chronic cough due to pollen allergies. That's a big difference from someone who has a chronic cough due to lung cancer. So it's not the coughing itself that's an issue, but rather why is someone coughing.


I completely agree with you, Ezra :D .

Autistic people stim because our nervous systems are overstimulated. Not just because we're constantly anxious (although stress really aggravates my stimming).

I'm curious: do you agree with what will@rd says (that stimming is completely different from fidgeting?) I think I do, but then again, the diagnostic criteria states otherwise and I know some people that stim by "fidgeting" constantly.


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