“I don’t know where I get this from, but if I fall into one of my bad habits, like humming or flapping my hands or a whole bunch of different things I do when I don’t even know I’m doing them, then someone just points it out to me and I focus on it and I get it under control.”

— Jason McElwain. That just makes me incredibly sad that he’s been taught to see these things as bad habits. It’d be one thing if he wanted to stop, but he says he doesn’t care how he looks , it’s his mom that tells him to stop because she wants him to look normal. In videos of him I can see all over his body the movements that try to happen but get abbreviated. And just… saying flapping is a bad habit is like trying to convince someone that smiling is a bad habit. :-(