9 month old stimming?

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my baby boy will sit and stare at his hand and watches himself turn his hand from left to right the back of his hand to the front and can do it for a while just watching and concentrating his hand is this stimming? x

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I can't say for sure if he's doing the same thing, of course, but at about 5 or so I remember looking at the little 'triangles' (tiny creases in the skin) on the back of my hand, and watching how that pattern transitioned to the smooth skin on the front. I guess that qualifies as a stim? It was just getting lost in the pattern(s). At that age I could look at honey bee and see the individual hairs on it's back from 3 feet away.

you may not be a parent of an NT, be happy

noticing their feet and hands is a typical developmental stage for infants. it usually occurs prior to 9 months tho, usually in the 3-6 month range. its when they first realize that their hands are theirs and they control them. they will examine them, turn them front to back or open and close their fists.

so before worrying about stimming, i'd look at his history and try to remember if hes gone through the usual discovery stage yet.

I remember being concerned about my AS son who is now 5 looking at his hands a lot when he was an infant. The doctor said it was normal and not to worry about it. He did stop doing it, but then he started flapping his hands while laying on his back and staring at the ceiling fan. It did seem to me that he stared at his hands for longer than the 3-6 month period. If you already have one son with AS, I would just keep my eye on it.

At nine months such behavior is just what babies do. No way to tell if yours is doing it more or differently than normal.

Infants have no social limitations and just do what feels good. And all sorts of odd things actually do feel good, even to NT's. As children grow, if they are NT, they stop doing them because they learn not to.

Also, stimming is not limited to people on the spectrum. Many people do some form of stimming.