STIMSTRUCK AND STIMSTUCK – CONCEPTUALIZING STIMMING
We have a lot of existing words to discuss stimming. What we don’t (yet) have are actual stimming-related terms. Here are two I coined, how I use them, and why I find them so helpful.
ECHOLALIA AND OTHER ECHO PHENOMENA – BY NO MEANS MEANINGLESS
20.07.2015
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AUTISM, CO-OCCURRING CONDITIONS, ECHOLALIA, SENSORY PROCESSING, SPEECH, STIMMING
Repeating words or phrases is an autistic trait most people are familiar with. But what is echolalia really? What’s its purpose? What does it feel like? Let’s take an unpathologized inside look at it.
“YOU DON’T LOOK AUTISTIC!” – AUTISM AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Many autistic people get told that they “Don’t look autistic.” at some point in their life. Here is my take on why that sentence is never helpful and also always factually wrong. A new perspective on how everything about the way I look IS distinctively autistic – once you understand what you’re seeing!
NON-SPEAKING AND NON-VERBAL
What the terms “non-speaking” and “non-verbal” mean, and one experience of being intermittently non-speaking and non-verbal.