 Stimming. What exactly is it? Stimming is a repetitive noise or behaviour that is done over and over again to self-soothe. Funnily enough, neurotypicals do this as well. Everyone does it to self-soothe, or a lot of people do. You might find yourself now and again biting your nails, or like rubbing your hands together, or as another one that people do, biting their pen lids, or clicking their pen, or twizzling it around in your hands. These are all what we would consider to be little stims, little stims, so they're kind of a bit unnoticeable. Most people do them, they kind of slip under the radar a little bit. When it comes to big stims, these are the more stereotypical things that are related to autism that people think of when they think of autistic people. Rocking, flacking your hands, making noises, you know, echolalia, sort of repeating things over and over again.