Verbal Stims? | Autism PDD

My son has tons of verbal stims.  Right now he is in the kitchen saying to himself "water cirlce" .  Sometimes I don't even hear it anymore, I'm so used to it.

He does lots of gutteral vocalizations, too. I'll try to post a video that I took yesterday, too.

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 My son will find a word and repeat it over and over again or he makes this strange noise with his lips (can't explain it). it seems to come and go with severity, but it's usually when he is excited.Skylar does the verbal stimming more when he is either irritated or concentrating really hard on something and it is usually followed by physical stims as well.

It is so cool that you are able to explain it from a first hand perspective.  It makes sense.  He does it when he is excited or overwhelmed.  Sometimes, he gets really loud and screeches, but lately he has been keeping it to the gutteral noises in the video.

Does your child do this?  Drew does it a lot.  Blake doesn't do it at all. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilt395avPLQ 

Video of Drew

 

 

hisgirl39268.5452777778It looks sensory to me. I used to do something similar, but without the vocalization. I would lay face down and bury my head between the cushion and the back of the couch. It kept the couch in contact with almost all parts of my head and so I would sort of move my head around in there for sensory input. I usually did it when I was overloaded, so I'd call it a stim. I still feel the need to do it some, but I only give in to it when there are no other people around, and I can do it sitting up now, so if I hear anyone I can quickly turn around. A lot of times I will do this with my pillow at night when I'm getting ready to fall asleep.

I figure the vocal stuff is stimming as well, just based on the physical part. I didn't use a lot of vocal stims, because I figured out that vocalizing drew people's attention to me. And usually when I was stimming like that I did not want to be interrupted, so I either did not vocalize at all, or I would control it to a low sort of groaning or grunting that was difficult to hear.
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