The Beautiful Parts of Stimming
One of my missions with this page is to give a glimpse inside our beautiful, unique world with severe, nonverbal autism. This photo is a perfect example. His mind is amazing.
Cooper is absolutely in love with family photos. He even uses them to communicate. Thankfully, over the years he has relaxed a bit around them too. He used to take them out of frames, take them off the wall, even break the glass. Now, he just gathers them up, carries them around, spreads them out, studies them, shares them with people in his world and even sleeps with them.
It’s pretty special to our family. In a sense, this is one of the ways he shows love.
As his parents, we watch this very carefully. We take a very focused stance on stimming. As long as it’s not causing our son anxiety, profoundly impacting our family or home life, or dangerous to Cooper or others, than stim away sweet boy. If you love photos of your family and want to enjoy them in this way…mom and dad support you in every way. But if he starts to get anxious around them we step in and help.
One funny part…Sawyer, our five year old, came downstairs this morning and immediately saw the photo circle. ‘What is that?’ he exclaimed. I told him it was his brother’s treasures. And he responded with, ‘I wonder what he is thinking when he does that?’ And that was that. Curious questions from a little boy about his brother. We welcome questions in our home.
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Hi Kate! Just wondering if you can clarify something- when you say you guys step in & help, what do you mean? I’m having a hard time knowing what to do.
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