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What is ADHD stimming?

Medically reviewed by Jonathan B. Jassey, DO Key Takeaways Recognize that people with ADHD may engage in self-stimulating behavior to soothe themselves or improve their focus, and it is not ...
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 ...
I am interrupting my series on trauma to participate in an event organized by a few friends on Twitter. This post is my contribution to the online event Night of the Living Stim, a Twitter chat that ...