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Autism - Repetitive Behaviors Like Rocking and Flapping

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Video featured in Wired MagazineStress and how we as humans deal with it is the subject of this video. I believe neurotypical people can sometimes misinterpret an emotion such as stress when viewing the behaviors of autistic people like me and others. Every human experiences stress. Part of our shared experience is the emotion of stress (fight or flight). Whenever we feel we are being judged, we feel stress.Have you ever experienced the stress to perform or live up to an "image" in your life? If so, you have something in common with autistic people.Most people experience stress in their lives to perform under pressure, whether it is in your job or with your spouse or family.Both autistic people and "normal" people experience stress and pressure. However, stress can manifest itself in autistic people in ways that are misunderstood by so called "normal" people.When both autistic and "normal" people experience stress, it often manifests itself physcially in what is psychiatrically called "repetitive behaviors". So called "normal" people exhibit stress with repetitive behaviors just like autistic people. However, their repetitive behaviors are considereed socially "appropriate" and are not subject to judgement.Neurotypical repetitive behaviors are considered "normal" or in the mainstream. No one would consider that they need to be modified or "cured".However, for autistic people, because our stress coping mechanisms are different, such as rocking and flapping, have very different consequences than a neurotypical's stress coping "behavior".Our stress coping mechanisms such as rocking and flapping can get us institutionalized, put in self contained classrooms as children and abused like lab monkeys by our own family because they believe they are being helpful to us and benevolent. We are subject to the same type of behavior modification used with animals such as those you see at Sea World.Our stress reducing mechanisms such as ROCKING, and flapping are medicalized and called stereotypical movement disorders. We are told that they are compulsive, repetitive and "non-functional" behavior. All because they are deemed so by people that are neurotypical.However, one of us (autistic) has been very successful despite being labled Rain man, wierd, asocial etc. by society (google Bill Gates and rocking to see what I mean). Bill is an autistic in hiding. Despite being the richest man in the world, he still must feel the stigma of being labeled as someone abnormal. I feel sorry for him in this respect, but along with great wealth comes great responsibility and it is about time that he step up to it.

Channel: People & Blogs
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: christschool

Length: 03:58
Rating: 4.44
Views: 163857

Tags: asperger's  autism  autismrecovery  autistic  flapping  hyperlexia  magazine  philcommander2  repetitivebehavior  rocking  wired  

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irgy709 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
because it's a subjective judgment with no basis in fact?how we deal with people who are different is only dictated by culture. people medicated or institutionalized today could have been shamans in precolumbian america, artists, "holy fools" in eastern orthodox nations (read about st. Xenia of st. petersburg) - what makes you think it needs to be "fixed"? autustic people are worse than the rest of us at somethings. at others they're a hell of a lot better. maybe we're the ones "disabled"?
12Antoniobu (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Autism is a DISABILITY that needs to BE FIXED. Why won't people accept that?
dynamicfingers (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
A nice comment below. i didnt read all that was writern in this vid as it was moving to fast for me to read but god bless all people who are conected with Autism in any way.
ChampTrucking (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
As a parent of a child living with Autism, I've found that we are truly blessed because there are families who experiencing greater challenges that us. Autism is nothing to be ashamed of, it should be viewed only as those individuals who have not reached their developmental milestones as of yet. God bless all the families who are experiencing this disorder...I've grown to accept Autism for the sake of my 9 yr old son and I love the fact that I'm able to share in his daily struggles.
ischlopischlo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Isn't typical/atypical MUCH less biased than normal/abnormal?Let's look at it like this:Green eye colour is normal, blue is abnormal.Black skin is abnormal, white is normal(if you live in eu/us)Homosexuality is abnormal, heterosexuality is normal.Isn't typical/atypical a MUCH better therm? The only ones that would be offensive to that would be normie-supremacists?
gaarakillsall3 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
My friend is autustic, and hes a good friend, I noticed every time he would do something it would be followed by a pat on his leg, i didnt know that was part of his condition until now
Azucarada911 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This video seems to assume that "normal" people feel superior to people with autisms since it doesnt reffer to "normal" people as non-autistic, it reffers to them with a bias word of "normal" (who says whats normal?)This is a completely bias video because autistic people arent ALWAYS abused and arent ALWAYS institutioned and they arent ALWAYS viewed as inferior by "NORMAL" people. It is extremely innappropriate to assume that anyone without autism is too closeminded too consider these things
AgentCROCODILE (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I don't rock myself all the time (only when I am in a bad mood and when I am stressed)I am criticized for flapping my hands and my family is quite abusive when I do this.It just makes me do it more because of the stress I get not knowing what I am doing wrong. Flapping hands is normal. NTs do it all the time (they call it "air guitar")
eryksun (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Sometimes I catch myself mildly rocking back and forth, but I'm not nervous. If I'm focused enough on one part of my mind, the other parts go on autopilot, i.e. the cortices for my unused senses will cycle while waiting for my frontal cortex to get back to them. My auditory cortex sometimes loops the chorus to a song. My motor cortex tends to fidget (drum, tap). I might make funny noises in a combined auditory/motor fidget (hum, whistle, pop) -- whatever keeps the circuits warm. I'm annoying.
JonThm (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I am just rying to tell you how to fix autism. You don't loose gifts, you gain social awarness.

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