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2:13pm July 5, 2014

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I don’t remember flapping as a child, the most I remember is swinging my arms back and forth around my body as I watched TV…I remember noticing I flapped a little when I was excited and jumping up/pacing after I got diagnosed, but now I flap a lot more and I love it but I feel weird about it not being something I always remember doing…  

Some autistic people pick up autistic mannerisms after they see another autistic person doing it, or hear of other autistic people doing it.  Many feel guilty about this, like it’s somehow ‘inauthentic’.  In reality, we do this because these mannerisms feel natural to us, they come more naturally than, say, mimicking the mannerisms of nonautistic people.  And if it feels good, and comes naturally, it doesn’t matter when you learned to do it or why.  At all.  And anyone who thinks it matters can go fuck themselves with something sharp and pointy.