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Stimming Do You Vocal Stim? MUST SEE Autism And ADHD · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  In this video, I'm going to be discussing stimming and more
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  importantly, vocal stimming. All art plus more is coming
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  right up. Hey guys, welcome back to the
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  ASPB world. My name is Dan, I have autism,
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  ADHDOCD and dyslexia, and I'm making weekly videos all about
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  this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more about those subjects, remember to hit
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  the subscribe button by clicking that notification bell down
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  below and give this page a follow if you're watching on
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  other platforms. Guys, what is going on?
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  It's really good to be doing a video on stimming because a lot
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  of people don't understand what the word stimming means or how
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  it relates to autism. So I'm going to kind of go
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  through step by step everything that I think is important to get
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  you to understand what stimming is and then how stimming relates
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  to other things and what vocal stimming is because this is a
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  huge thing. I think it's most of the time
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  left off. Now, before I get into the
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  video, I just want to say that this fidget toy that I've been
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  using, the Arnold roller is absolutely amazing.
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  It's probably my favorite fidget toy of all time.
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  It's just these two kind of cylindrical cans that work
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  together in series. They're they're just linked
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  together with these little chainy kind of like end pieces
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  and you just like fiddle around with it in your hand.
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  But it's a really good steam toy or a fidget gadget for anybody
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  who's got ADHD or autism who wants to just kind of fidget.
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  You can have this thing in your pocket and people don't even
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  know that it's there. And it's really easy to kind of
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  just have around. Now I'm going to leave a link in
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  the description down below where you can get 10% off your own Ono
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  roller hashtag not sponsored, but if you do use my link, I do
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  get a little bit of an affiliate out.
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  But I just think this is really cool because I really, really
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  love this is definitely my favorite fidget toy.
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  OK, so stimming, let's get into it.
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  So finally, who does not know stemming is short for self
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  stimulatory behaviour. And what that means is it's a
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  kind of behaviour that autistic individuals and ADHD individuals
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  do to relax or feel regulated. It's a it's a behaviour pattern
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  that is kind of reoccurring. So it could be that, you know,
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  autistic person may rock side to side or front to back, they
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  could flap their hands or flick their fingers or do this a lot
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  with light and stuff like that. And stimming, it's kind of like
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  a self soothing. It's, it's a nice repetitive
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  behaviour that you know really well.
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  It makes you feel good and it's something that you can just do
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  to help calm down. Not when does stimming happen?
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  Well, there's a few different times stimming can happen when
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  you are experiencing anxiety. So say you're queuing up for an
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  event or it's Christmas Eve or you're about to, I don't know,
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  go and see your favorite band. It could be anything, right?
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  And you can get really excited and that rush of energy could
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  come out in the fall of a stem. So you could be like, you know,
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  flapping your hands or or rocking back the forwards or
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  jumping it up and down because it's this kind of self soothing
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  behaviour to kind of help regulate you on help regulate
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  your emotions, which autistic individuals or neurodivergent
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  individuals have massive issues with.
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  Now, also on the flip side, if you're extremely nervous for
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  something because it's the same type of emotional action, you
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  will get a similar response. So if you're nervous about
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  something, you could be stemming a like rocking backs and
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  forwards, flapping your hands. It's not that it's different,
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  it's actually it's the same an anxiety and nervousness is the
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  same as excitement and nervousness because you can get
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  nervous excited, right, You can get nervous anxiety.
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  So that's how stimming comes into play and how it explains
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  itself in in the life of autistic individuals.
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  Not I myself. I have a bunch of different
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  stems. Like I can't sit still all the
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  time. Like my legs will go up and
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  down. Like, you know, I do it right
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  now, like my leg is fidgeting. Or I could like rock backwards
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  and forwards, like side to side. And I do a lot of stemming with
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  my fingers, like I'll just flip my fingers really quickly like
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  this. And I have loads of different
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  stems like that, but they're not always the same.
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  However, the most important thing to note here and by the
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  way, guys, if you're enjoying this type of video, please give
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  it a thumbs up. So I know that to make more of
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  these for you guys because it's really helpful to me if you give
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  this video a thumbs up. Thank you.
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  The most interesting thing is vocal stimming.
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  Now, vocal stimming is where you have the same action that
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  happens at the same time as, you know, nervousness or excitement,
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  but instead of doing a physical action like a, you know, rocket
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  box and forwards or flicking your fingers, it's a verbal kind
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  of noise. It could be any noise.
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  It could be a word. You could repeat a word over and
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  over again, which is kind of similar to something called
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  Alexa thymia, which is another issue within autism or not
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  issue, but another trait of autism where you will repeat
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  words that you have heard, lexicon, vocabulary.
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  It could be a bunch of words, it could be anything.
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  And you repeat those because you've heard them and you just
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  want to repeat them because the noise sounds quite soothing or
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  interesting or you're trying to practice and learn those words.
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  Hence why I'm actually born and raised in the UK, although my
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  accent is slightly transatlantic.
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  So I was raised by watching American television and so I
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  learnt most of my lexicon from American television, right.
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  So that's how Alexithamia works. But in terms of vocal stimming,
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  it's more like a noise. It could be a random kind of
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  like voice quivering or it could be like a, a humming, or it
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  could be like a, a hype pitch squeal, or it could be anything
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  that's really specific that you hear, you know, yourself or an
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  autistic person doing when they're in a situation where
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  they may be excited or nervous or or scared or, you know, in
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  the middle of having fun or they're really just having a
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  good time. This vocal stem is really
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  interesting because I believe vocal stems were left off of the
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  idea of stemming for a very long time.
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  You have a lot of people thinking that stemming is just
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  motion, right? It could be movement and even
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  using fidget types, like I said about having the honour, you
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  know, this kind of helps keep stemming to isolated to this one
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  idea here. But you know, having vocal stems
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  is still movement because it's moving like your vocal cord,
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  your larynx, your throat and your tongue.
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  Like all of these things are still, there's still physical
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  movement there, but it's isolated to a different part.
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  But also there's an audio part of it.
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  There's two reasons why this actually comes about.
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  When you are stimming, you are getting just physical feedback,
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  right? A tactile feedback.
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  But when you audio stim, and I'm sorry, what I mean by tactile
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  feedback is that you can, you can physically feel stuff in
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  your hand. Your spatial awareness is, is
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  concentrated to a specific area. Like if you're flapping your
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  hands, you can feel that your hand is moving, right?
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  That's giving you physical feedback or tactile feedback to
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  your muscles, to your brain to go, OK, my hand is moving.
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  So you're getting that feedback and feedback is just a signal
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  goes to your brain to understand what is going on or something is
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  happening. You're feeding that information
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  back to your brain. Now in terms of vocal stimming,
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  there's two things that are happening, which I think
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  enhances the ability for vocal stimming to be a soothing to a
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  narcissistic person. And that is when you're audibly
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  saying something and you're having physical feedback from
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  the vibration in in your throat or your mouth, you're, you're
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  listening, you're hearing that stim, which is soothing, right?
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  Because you can have, you can stem by listening to audio.
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  And I'll get into that in just a few minutes.
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  And so you're getting audio feedback and physical tactile
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  feedback. And this together is really
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  dopamine satisfying, which means it releases dopamine, a
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  chemical, which is a happy chemical that is released when
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  you experience pleasure or things that you enjoy.
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  And this is something that autistic people strive for all
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  the time because autistic people and ADHD people have issues with
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  dopamine. They just want to constantly
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  have dopamine because they're almost dopamine division, right?
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  Which is why we're always obsessed with the things that we
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  are interested in and we've become really interested topic
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  of interest now, audio stimming, listening to stuff.
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  How many times, right decision to have you just listened to
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  that one song on repeat forever or you listen to that one part
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  of that one song repeat Actually, specifically, I
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  remember The Beatles album that came out in 2007, which was like
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  a rest of type of thing. And there was outro on the song
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  of Strawberry Fields. And the outro was so good that I
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  just listen to that all the time.
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  But it was hard to kind of skip the CD back to that point
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  because I'm super old and we had CDs then.
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  So what I did is I, I turned it into an MP3 and I just clipped
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  that one part and I just put that on my, my iTunes on my
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  phone and my Apple Music. And I just put that on repeat.
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  And so I was stem to that. And by stemming, I mean like
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  just listening to this like audio or some piece of content.
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  Now I actually created an audio library of stemming noises of
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  like pens clicking, bubbles popping, people rubbing like
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  their hands together, whiteboards clapping, all this
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  kind of cool stuff. But if you're interested in
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  buying that download pack, it's only $7.00 and you can check it
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  out in the link down below. It's really cool.
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  I've had a lot of fun making this in the studio.
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  But that's audio stimming in two ways.
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  You've got audio stimming and vocal stimming.
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  And this is not just for autistic individuals.
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  This is autistic and ADHD because many people forget that
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  people who have ADHD also stim. You don't have to have autism to
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  just stim. And interestingly enough, I have
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  seen people who are not on special at all, who will stim,
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  who Will Rock backwards and forward side to side that fast
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  fascinates the heck out of me. Now guys, I want to know your
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  take on this. Do you audio stem or do you
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  physically stem or do you do both?
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  Drop me a comment down below. I read every single one and
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  guys. Peace.
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