Stimmer

Quick meaning: Stimmer is a noun meaning (psychology, autism) One who engages in stimming behaviour.

Meaning

(psychology, autism) One who engages in stimming behaviour.

Example Sentences

Cam is a first-class stimmer. The stims have passed through stages, each more obsessive than the last.

Most people probably wouldn't guess either of them had autism since they are both so high functioning; Dillon is a “stimmer” though—lots of hand flapping.

We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.

Word Forms

• stimmers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fidgeter, stunter, staggerer, fidgetter, skitcher, scutterer.

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