Everybody stims, to some extent. You may well be sitting there – tapping your foot as you read, fiddling with the button on a ballpoint pen – scoffing at the idea that you’d ever do such a thing. I rest my case. It’s a human response to stress or anxiety – a kind of burning off of that restless energy that our bodies seem to generate as a response to worrying about the gas bill. We stride backwards and forwards across the room as we engage in a difficult phone call, we rub our temples when concerned or play with our hair when worried. Because of this universality, each and every neurotypical
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