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Posted ByAutistic and proud on December 28, 1999 at 14:16:09:
I've been out in public with kids (and adults) who stim (sometimes because of work, sometimes because I'm with an autistic friend), and I recommend *enjoying* it. You can get a lot of evil glee out of watching people freak out and trying to work out what on earth is going through their mind.
People seem to have programmed responses for most situations, and then when they come across something trivial and harmless (like hand-flapping) that they don't have any information in their mental files on, their brains just seem to shut down and they gawp ...
It doesn't do them any harm to have their assumptions about how people are supposed to act shaken up a bit.
It's also worth remembering that occasionally people are not staring because they're hostile or freaked out: they're looking because they have a relative or friend who is autistic and recognize it when they see it - imagine how you'd feel if you went to the shops and saw another parent with a little boy flapping his hands :-)
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