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rocking

  1. Izzy

    I can't stop rocking back and forth (stimming)

    Hi everyone, I have posted about this in my introduction post but I thought I'd also ask about it here. I have rocked back and forth as a stim since I was a baby. I used to do it whenever I got stressed or sometimes when I got excited about something positive. The rocking always made me feel...
  2. M

    Self soothing behaviors from childhood to adulthood.

    What did you do to self-soothe as a child? Do you do this still? This is a mix of articles that expand on self-soothing in both NT's and people with autism: ....Early trauma, in infancy, childhood, or even before birth, is believed to influence the programming of the body’s stress activation...
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