Yes only when happy and content. She gets around some crawling. She can't get to far though. what bothers me is other people are noticing and commenting on it. My brother says she looks like rain man, it tore me up! People are staring at her when she does it, adn then I try to distract her, and I feel bad for doing it. I have to say her name loud to "snap her out of it! I know she is going to be different, but its still hard to accept some of these things. when she starts to do it, I put her on her bouncy ball and put her in the swing. But she's doing it more and more lately. I know i could be worrying about worse things.

I've noticed with my son, who sometimes walks and runs and at others uses a wheelchair, that when he is ambulatory I see one type of self-stim movement. and when he is not I see another. And when he is using the wheelchair and feels happy or excited he really goes to town with the rocking, twisting, arm flapping, head side to side. I do not see these behaviours when he is free to move around using his legs. I also don't see them when he is unhappy or bored. Though, he DOES have other self-stim behaviours when he is unoccupied or having trouble with sensory integration issues.