Thursday, December 29, 2011

My favorite part of the Loud Hands video

littlemissmutant:

allies-person:

And also a comment inspired by discussion of autistic relationships.

I love the entire video, but my favorite part is of the two autistic people who were stimming together.  !  Neil and I do that all the time, and for me it was powerful to see that on screen, just as it was powerful to see one-person stims that strongly resemble my own.

The experts say that we need to stop stimming “for our own good,” that stimming prevents us from having social relationships, etc.

Well, what if stimming is part of the way we interact with the people we love?

That’s me and my very good friend K. We were actually doing that as Julia and my girlfriend were filming a different part, and then Julia saw us and was like, “wait, film them doing that!”

Anyway, glad you like it!

Posted at 11:00 AM 27 notes Reblogged from theloudhandsproject

Notes

  1. youneedacat said: Joel Smith and I used to unconsciously sync our stims to each other. I dubbed it ‘synchronized stimming’.
  2. goldenheartedrose reblogged this from theloudhandsproject and added:
    Ah, here we go. This is what I was talking about earlier. And yes, my daughter and I do that all the time. I’m so glad...
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    Yes! Stimming carries...emotion. It’s a way...world (not...
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    Yes! Stimming carries...emotion. It’s a way...world (not...
  8. littlemissmutant reblogged this from allies-person and added:
    very good friend K. We...girlfriend were filming a different part, and then Julia saw
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