Citations:stimmer

Noun: "one who engages in stimming behaviour"

 * 2006, That's Life with Autism: Tales and Tips for Families with Autism (eds. Donna Satterlee Ross, Kelly Ann Jolly), page 125:
 * Most people probably wouldn't guess either of them had autism since they are both so high functioning; Dillon is a “stimmer” though—lots of hand flapping.
 * 2010, Mark Osteen, One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism, page 148:
 * Cam is a first-class stimmer. The stims have passed through stages, each more obsessive than the last.
 * 2014, Michael B. Bakan, "The Musicality of Stimming: Promoting Neurodiversity in the Ethnomusicology of Autism", MUSICultures, Volume 41, Number 2 (2014), page 145:
 * Perhaps not, at least in the vast majority of situations in which stimming takes place, that is, in situations that pose no risk of harm or injury to either the stimmer or anyone else.
 * 2015, Margaret Price, "The Bodymind Problem and the possibilities of pain", Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Volume 10, Number 10, Volume 30, Issue 1, Winter 2015:
 * This example, when considered in the context of audiences who observe the stimmer, illustrates the shape-shifting nature of the misfit.
 * 2020, "Beatrix", quoted in Luke Beardon, Avoiding Anxiety in Autistic Children: A Guide for Autistic Wellbeing, unnumbered page:
 * Some even turn it into an art form, such as stim dancing — how lush is that? What I don't understand is why people seem afraid of it, like it's some kind of infectious disease - though maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing - imagine a world full of stimmers when it was the 'stills' who became the minority group, what a giggle that would be — mind you, it'd be a bit of a nightmare on the Tube, I guess ...
 * 2021, Erin Felepchuk, "Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic", Disability Studies Quarterly, Volume 41, Number 3 (2021):
 * We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.