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Self-stimulatory behavior, also known as "stimming" [1] and self-stimulation, [2] is the repetition of physical movements, sounds, words, moving objects, or other behaviors. Stimming is a type of restricted and repetitive behavior (RRB). [3] Such behaviors (also scientifically known as "stereotypies") are found to some degree in all people, but ...
Gratification disorder is a rare and often misdiagnosed form of masturbatory behavior, or the behavior of stimulating of one's own genitals, seen predominantly in infants and toddlers. [1] Most pediatricians agree that masturbation is both normal and common behavior in children at some point in their childhood.
Intensive, sustained special education programs and behavior therapy early in life may help children acquire self-care, language, and job skills. [305] Although evidence-based interventions for autistic children vary in their methods, many adopt a psychoeducational approach to enhancing cognitive, communication, and social skills while ...
Autistic masking is the act of concealing autistic traits to come across as neurotypical, as if behind a mask. Autistic masking, also referred to as camouflaging, is the conscious or subconscious suppression of autistic behaviors and compensation of difficulties in social interaction by autistic people, with the goal of being perceived as neurotypical.
Stimming has many forms, some quite adaptive and others maladaptive (for example, excessive hand-wringing can injure joints, and excessive rubbing or scratching of skin can injure it). Another form of self-treatment that arises not uncommonly is self-medication , which unfortunately can lead to substance use disorders such as alcohol use disorder .
In 1983, Swiss-American neurologist Isabelle Rapin and psycholinguist Doris A Allen [337] coined the term semantic pragmatic disorder to describe the communicative behavior of children who presented traits such as pathological talkativeness, deficient access to vocabulary and discourse comprehension, atypical choice of terms and inappropriate ...
The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders , published in May 2013, reclassified Tourette's and tic disorders as motor disorders listed in the neurodevelopmental disorder category, removed the word "stereotyped" from the definition of tic to better distinguish between stereotypies and tics, replaced transient ...
Stimming, repetitive self-stimulating behavior, often observed in autistic people; Stim, an autoinjector carrying drugs for emergency use. A common type contains epinephrine, the epinephrine autoinjector. Other drugs may be contained for different medical emergencies.