does anyone's child do this?

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My autistic daughter will be 2 on the 20th. When she gets excited,

she throws her arms in the air and shakes them while opening and

closing her fingers like a wave as well as kicking her legs or

stomping her feet. Then she'll stop abruptly and do it again. It's

exactly what infants do. What do you think this means?

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In a message dated 2/15/04 8:36:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,

johnandkimmyw@... writes:

> My autistic daughter will be 2 on the 20th. When she gets excited,

> she throws her arms in the air and shakes them while opening and

> closing her fingers like a wave as well as kicking her legs or

> stomping her feet. Then she'll stop abruptly and do it again. It's

> exactly what infants do. What do you think this means?

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its kid of like when an NT child jumps for joy. same idea but autistics do

it a little differantly. sometimes but not always it hapens less the more they

learn to express themselfs. it perfectly normal for her.

eric

abbys dad

[Guest guest]

From your description it seems like she is " stimming " , an autistic gesture

produced during an anxious or an excited moment. My daughter did those

since she was 6 months old and she is 14 now.

does anyone's child do this?

> My autistic daughter will be 2 on the 20th. When she gets excited,

> she throws her arms in the air and shakes them while opening and

> closing her fingers like a wave as well as kicking her legs or

> stomping her feet. Then she'll stop abruptly and do it again. It's

> exactly what infants do. What do you think this means?

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>

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[Guest guest]

---My own daughter doesn't do this at all (autistic aged 15), but

used to rotate her wrist alot, but now has stopped that too. A

friends daughter does do just what you describe when she is upset or

excited. Does she stop if you tell her to? My friends daughter

will stop, but starts up again quite soon after.

Liz

In Autism_in_Girls , " cutestuff " <cutestuff@s...>

wrote:

> From your description it seems like she is " stimming " , an autistic

gesture

> produced during an anxious or an excited moment. My daughter did

those

> since she was 6 months old and she is 14 now.

>

> does anyone's child do this?

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> > My autistic daughter will be 2 on the 20th. When she gets

excited,

> > she throws her arms in the air and shakes them while opening and

> > closing her fingers like a wave as well as kicking her legs or

> > stomping her feet. Then she'll stop abruptly and do it again.

It's

> > exactly what infants do. What do you think this means?

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