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Karawynn Long
Karawynn Long

Nov 1, 2019

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A Body in Perpetual Motion

I’ve been hiding my autistic stimming, even from myself

When I first began to consider the possibility that I might be autistic, several arguments against it immediately sprang to mind.

One of these was: but I don’t stim! Or rather — I do, because everybody self-stimulates once in a while, but I don’t stim the way autistic people do, repetitively and…

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Autistic polymath reader & writer.

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