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When stimming gets pathologized instead of understood

My son is nonverbal autistic and communicates through behavior, but his new teacher keeps punishing him for stimming instead of trying to understand what he needs.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The failure to recognize alternative forms of communication and self-regulation transforms natural coping mechanisms into behavioral problems.

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