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Top 10 Examples of Autism Stimming · 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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  OK guys, here are 10 examples of autistic stemming.
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  Let's get into it. OK, so the first one I want to
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  talk about is flapping hands out.
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  Anybody who is, anyone who knows anything about autism, you may
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  come across an autistic person who will flap their hands out.
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  Flapping hands can look kind of a little bit different for
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  different people. You can have flapping hands like
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  this or like this or like this, and they're different because
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  people experience them differently.
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  Autistic individuals will stem and stinging happens because
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  it's short for self estimatory behaviour, which is basically
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  like a repetitive notion that you do with your body to comfort
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  and soothe yourself to help regulate your system.
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  So ham slapping is number 1. And just on that note, guys, my
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  name is Dan and I have autism and ADHD.
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  And also make sure to hit the follow button if you're watching
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  on other social platforms. So stemming #2 rocking backwards
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  and forwards. Now this is really interesting.
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  A lot of people, I would love for you to leave a review for
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  this video slash podcast if you have anything to add because it
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  would really help me out on this channel and also help me learn
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  and grow from your comments. On the opposite spectrum will
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  have a tendency if they're nervous or if they're anxious or
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  if they're excited, we'll rock backwards and forwards.
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  So this could be rocking on a chair.
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  This could be stood up, rock them backwards and forwards.
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  And what this is doing is giving a repetitive behaviour to the
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  feeling that they're getting right their emotions.
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  So emotion comes from the word energy in motion.
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  And when we have energy insiders, how do we put that
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  energy into motion? Well, typically neurotypical
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  people will know how to act. They'll either cry or scream or
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  laugh or be angry or, or they'll tell someone how they feel about
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  it. But autistic individuals don't
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  have that luxury. They're kind of like a bit more
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  reserved in that way because they don't really learn those
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  things from the get go. Just being around people
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  socially. Emotional development is
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  difficult for autistic individuals and emotional
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  regulation. So because of this, rocking
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  backwards and forwards helps bring out some of that emotion.
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  If you're nervous, if you're excited, if you're happy or if
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  you're sad. Like, it can happen any time,
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  but rocking is very common and you probably have seen autistic
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  individuals rocking back and forwards in numerous situations
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  or events, right? And This is why.
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  So rocking back and forwards #2 OK, so #3 is tapping your
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  fingers. Now, a lot of us people will tap
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  their fingers together like this or just tapping their fingers
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  like this, but usually it's going through all of the fingers
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  and back down. And what this is doing is giving
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  you a counting reference for rhythmic patterns.
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  So you want 234-1234 so you can go through the wall.
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  And by doing this, you're regulating yourself, you're
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  regulating your system, you're kind of calming down and giving
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  yourself this repetitive awesome feeling that you're like, oh,
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  OK, I can chill now. You know, I'm having these
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  stemming moments. And it's helping regulate who
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  you are, which is really interesting because stemming
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  helps regulate you. Regardless of what anyone will
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  say, stemming is really good for you.
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  And I think that the more you stem, it just indicates to you
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  if you're more happy, sad or nervous.
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  Like it just it's just an engagement signal as well.
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  Really interesting, OK #4 is rapid finger movements in front
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  of eyes. Now I said about this earlier by
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  like hand flapping, right? So hand flapping went like this
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  is different to hand flapping like this.
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  You'll see a lot of autistic individuals doing this with
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  their eyes, right? And they'll.
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  So this is the light and they'll hold their they'll hold their
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  hand like that with their fingers fanned over to the light
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  and they'll do this, right? Why did they do this?
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  What is this about? And it's a very simple
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  explanation. I did a very viral video on this
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  on TikTok and Instagram. They've got millions of views in
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  a couple of days. And I was in a toy store once,
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  right? Called Smyths or Smiths.
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  I don't know how you pronounce it here in the UK.
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  It's kind of like Toys-R-Us but like the UK version.
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  And basically there was a like 2 strip lighting, you know, like
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  you're having offices and kitchens and stuff like that.
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  And that flickers at a certain rate, right?
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  Like it has a frequency that it flickers at.
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  Now autistic individuals, for some bizarre reason, I'm not
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  entirely sure on the comics of this, can see that flicker more
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  so than anybody else. So when you do this to a flicker
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  of light, what happens is it stops the flickering annoying
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  you because you're kind of cross phasing it.
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  So you're counter balancing the flicker that's happening and
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  you're phasing it out with your hands, which is really
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  interesting because assisting individuals will do this because
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  they're basically blocking the light from annoying them,
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  causing overwhelmed cause century overload.
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  So then I have a free Autism Life XPDF book that you can
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  So that being said, this is a bit of a game changer and it's
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  nice to understand the background of it.
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  So yeah, the video I did for on TikTok is really interesting and
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  people got a lot out of it. OK, so #5 is hands back by
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  shoulders and wrist rotation. So a lot of autistic individuals
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  will do this and it's because they're mixing 2 things
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  together, mixing the sensory stimuli, which is the moving of
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  the hands like this, the repetitive part and the tensing
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  of putting your hands back like this.
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  A lot of artists can be used are hypermobile, which means that
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  they will want to do this kind of stretch that will make them
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  feel better. But also this is kind of like a
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  tick when you have autism and ADHD and and terest sometimes as
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  well if you've got it all together, sometimes you don't.
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  Sometimes stress is just separate, but you will have
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  these ticks which are small involuntary movements that will
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  kind of cause you to jerk or or jitter or kind of hit yourself
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  or do something like that or cough or sneeze.
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  And this is almost like a tick combined with a stem behavior,
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  which is super interesting. And I see a lot of our cystic
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  individuals, especially young people, doing this because it's
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  quite a nice thing. If you do it right now, you'll
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  see why it feels really nice. You're stretching out your
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  chest, you're stretching out your arms and your wrists.
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  It's a very nice feeling. So hence why someone will do
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  this to feel regulated. OK, number six is moving an
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  object in front of your eyes very rapidly, right?
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  So similar to this. Well, I wanted to give you a
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  little stem with something like this.
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  And it's because when you do this, it's breaking down the
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  light. It's a filter.
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  It's a light filter. So it, it may not just be strip
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  lights out or sitting individuals will have issues
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  whether it could be any light or any light stimuli or photon
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  particle stimuli. And so if you're doing this,
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  you're kind of like blocking out some of that light and it causes
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  a filter or a barrier between you and the the light, which
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  makes you less over stimulated. And probably because it's super
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  fun to do this a lot as well. So you'll see a lot, lots of
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  people doing kind of pens or pencils and doing this thing or
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  toothbrushes, right? Quite a lot because it's a stem
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  and they find it comfortable and calming.
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  So that is why that happens. OK, so #7 is using fingers to do
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  a circle motion on your leg. So say this is my leg.
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  I like doing this on my leg a lot.
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  So if I'm like just moving my finger out my leg in a circle
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  motion and it kind of like it allows you to decompress and
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  regulate because it's giving you the self distillery smooth, good
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  sound, nice texture, easy to do thing like just by doing this on
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  your leg. And it's kind of quite discreet
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  as well. No one knows what you're doing.
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  You're just rubbing your finger around your circle on your leg.
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  Really interesting. But that's another one.
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  OK #8 is restless leg syndrome. You know when you're like
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  bouncing your leg up and down, you can't sit still and you're
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  like your legs going and shaking the whole table and everybody's
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  a dinner card. It's like, what is going on?
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  Why is this person shaking the whole table?
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  Restless leg syndrome is a stem and it happens a lot and
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  especially it's very common in people ADHD, like as an ADHD
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  stem almost standalone #9 is vocal stemming.
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  Now a lot of our city individuals will have a vocal
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  stem or a vocal tick, right? Which is basically making a
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  sound like or noise that they'll do often.
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  And they do this because it's vibrating and it's sensually
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  stimulating. Kind of like imagine being a
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  baby all tucked up and then like, you know, you have like a
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  vibrating kind of like cot or crib or you're in the car and
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  you kind of drift off because the vibrations are just rocking
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  you to sleep. That's what it's kind of like.
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  It's giving me this lovely soothing stimuli because it's
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  like and that's what you're doing.
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  So you'll see autistic individuals having vocal stems.
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  Now vocal stems may not always be calm.
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  They could be like weird screeches or weird sounds or
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  very annoying sounds a lot of the time unfortunately, but
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  that's what's happening and that's what they are.
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  OK, so #10 is playing with a fidget gadgets.
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  Now. I did a video all about my
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  favorite fidget gadgets. Now, if you want to find out
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  what this thing is, then go to the video on my page, which is
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  my top four autism fidget gadgets.
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  But fidgeting with a fidget gadget is a stim because you're
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  you're you're soothing that need to kind of be restless or
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  irritable by just using this fidget toy to to play with.
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  So it's keeping your hands occupied so that they're not
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  kind of you're not sitting there sitting on your hands and
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  getting really annoyed. You're overcoming this anxiety
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  by playing with something that is essentially pleasing like a
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  fidget toy. Now if you have anything to add
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