What is Stimming? | Autism Stimming Behaviors

Dr. Mary Barbera discusses autism, stimming behavior, and how stimming isn’t always necessarily a bad thing for children with autism – or anyone at that matter.
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There's a lot of misconceptions about stimming. And a lot of autistic adults really don't like the fact that behavior analysts even talk about any reduction of self stimulatory behavior. I just want to make it clear. All people stim. All of our leisure activities are self stimulatory behaviors. Basically it's the function of automatic reinforcement, which means that we do things for pleasure.

For typically developing adults, our leisure activities like throwing a ball into a net brings us joy. The goal is to shoot the ball into the net and we could do that by ourselves. So we can do that for 15 minutes. We can do that for an hour. Another self stimulatory behavior/leisure activity is playing the violin. We can hear when a note is off or a note is on and it builds joy and excitement.

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Dr. Mary Barbera. I fell into the autism world as an autism mom in 1999 when her first-born son, Lucas, was diagnosed with autism. Since then, she became a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and best-selling author of The Verbal Behavior Approach. Since 2015, she’s created 3 autism online courses based on applied behavior analysis for professionals and "gung-ho" parents. Whether you’re looking for autism parenting strategies, working with development delays in children, or in search of autism help for professionals, I can encourage you to subscribe to the channel and join me on my journey. I’ll be providing weekly autism resources that you don’t want to miss.