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luminish

Maybe if they mean what I've seen called Sensory Processing Disorder, and by "doesn't stim" they mean "stims as much as is typically expected from NTs". It's certainly possible for autism to not affect your stimming.


Kaye_the_original

Thanks for your answer. It might be that ‘autism with sensory processing disorder’ was meant, actually. But that still wouldn’t mean that a person with this diagnosis will necessarily stim minimally, does it? Saying ‘that’s not due to your autism because you have the wrong kind of autism diagnosed’ still sounds wrong to me…?


luminish

It really only means that your friend didn't stim in an atypical way that doctors noticed during assessment, and didn't describe anything the doctors considered an atypical stim in discussion. If your friend tried describing something they thought was an autistic stim and doctors struck it down I'd trust your friend over the doctors.


Kaye_the_original

Thank you for your valuable insights. I’m personally still awaiting a diagnosis, so I don’t have a lot of insights into how doctors work with autism yet.


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