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[quote=Anonymous]Stimming serves a meaningful purpose for kids and it can be really harmful to try to quash a behavior that is a coping mechanism for them to self-regulate when they feel over-excited or overwhelmed. As parents of neurodivergent kids, it's really incumbent (unfortunately) upon us to educate the world around us that people take care of their emotions and brains in different ways, and while they might think stimming looks "weird" most of us have coping mechanisms that relate to stimming (tapping pencils, hopping legs up and down, biting nails, twirling pens, etc.). If they're doing something that is disruptive, you can work with them to find a replacement movement or action that will be less distracting to those around them, or have an accommodation that they can go to separate space to stim to release their energy and soothe their nervous systems. Many adult autistics have been very vocal on how harmful and invalidating it felt when their parents and therapists tried to quash (aka "extinguish") their stimming behaviors. Our kids are never going to be neurotypical so we need to shift out of an ableist mindset that we need to train our neurodivergent kids to mask all the time and hide their ND traits. It's not fair to them and not helpful if we want to move the world toward greater acceptance of neurodivergence. [/quote]

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