Re: What does stimming mean?

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In a message dated 8/8/2008 9:06:46 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,

nicolejamesd@... writes:

So as we get further in our recovery process of autism, my son is gaining in

speech and also

gaining in stims.

Most of the day is filled with head shaking, arm flapping, spinning in

circles..sometimes

screaming.

Do we know what this means??

My son is mostly a verbal stimmer. He stims when he is either over

stimulated by something or when he is thinking about something, he verbally

stims it

out. He also will stim if he eats certain foods, we are adding the GFCF diet

now.

Stimming usually occurs when a child is over stimulated, trying to tune

something out or eats something that makes their brain go into overdrive.

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[Guest guest]

Stim=self-stimulatory behavior...repetetive and apparently non-productive

behavior which often is a way people with ASD try to calm themselves or make

dealing with sensory stimulus less painful.

S S

Re: What does stimming mean?

[Guest guest]

> So as we get further in our recovery process of autism, my son is

gaining in speech and also

> gaining in stims.

> Most of the day is filled with head shaking, arm flapping, spinning

in circles..sometimes

> screaming.

> Do we know what this means??

Spinning at my house always meant yeast overgrowth. The others meant

a few things, one of which was yeast overgrowth. So you might want to

increase the yeast protocol, then see what remains.

Dana

[Guest guest]

> > So as we get further in our recovery process of autism, my son is

> gaining in speech and also

> > gaining in stims.

> > Most of the day is filled with head shaking, arm flapping,

spinning

> in circles..sometimes

> > screaming.

> > Do we know what this means??

>

>

> Spinning at my house always meant yeast overgrowth. The others

meant

> a few things, one of which was yeast overgrowth. So you might want

to

> increase the yeast protocol, then see what remains.

>

> Dana

>

[Guest guest]

> >Dana, would you consider hair-pulling (trichotilomania) a stim?

Usually.

At my house, it was one indicator of yeast overgrowth.

Dana