Stimming refers to the natural behavior of self-stimulation. It may include nail biting, drumming your fingers on a surface, or full body movements like rocking or swaying. Stimming usually involves ...

From tapping your fingers to rocking back and forth, these common habits may be ways your brain self-soothes, experts say.

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Key Takeaways Recognize that people with ADHD may engage in self-stimulating ...

Engaging in self-stimulatory behavior, or “stimming,” is often associated with autism and ADHD. But everyone stims to a ...

The word “stimming” refers to “self-stimulating behaviour,” one of the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorder. When laypeople think of autistic stimming behaviours, they tend to think of ...

Have you ever listened to a song over and over and over again because you felt like you were really vibing with it? Well, we’ve got some news for you. While you may have been doing that partly because ...

Stimming – short for “self-stimulatory behaviour” – is a form of self-soothing commonly seen in autistic people. It can involve repetitive movements, sounds, or actions and is commonly regarded in ...

My son and I were having a magical day at the Renaissance Faire after what had seemed like an endless Los Angeles winter, which in most years is an oxymoron. It was the kind of day when your autistic ...

"The film is about the creative process," says a member of the Neurocultures Collective. "It's about creating and about collaborating." By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor The Stimming Pool is like ...