I see a future figure skater. My eldest does that and she loves it.

GET THAT KID A PAIR OF ICE SKATES!

They are called stims, but so glad you are so attentive to his behavior! We need more mothers like this 💗

My nephew has autism, and I can't describe the surprise we had when we were watching him spin and spin and SPIN without runing into anything! He even stops immediately if he felt like he's running into something or someone!

Wow.... This is actual talent..... Could you imagine this on ice? He'd win medals... Hands down no issues that little boy is born to be a figure skater.

Just an FYI it's Stim , not stem. Stim is short for stimulate ! He loves his jolly jumper ❤️❤️❤️

One of our daughters has autism, and she spun herself silly as a toddler, too, so we put her in dance classes. We didn’t know then what it was, we just knew she was different, and that she liked to spin! Around age 4, she graduated from spinning to what we called pogo jumping, and hand flapping, and other stims like compulsive lip licking, and though she grew tired of dance by age 7, she has always walked only on her tippy toes. She’s developed other, more subtle stims now that she’s 26, but they are still there. It’s nice that there are resources like this available now to help parents recognize it early. Ours wasn’t diagnosed until age seven, when the pediatrician noticed that she would not make eye contact with anyone, and absolutely recoiled when anyone touched her, other than me or her daddy. There are a lot of subtle but telltale signs when you know what to look for.

sawyer is such a wholesome little bean. bless this childs heart. hes so cute.

Girl get him in dance classes and ice-skating . He will get 🥇 gold medal. Praying for you n your family.

Years ago, I often volunteered in a class that was mostly autistic kids. Yes, they all loved spinning. From what I understood, the spinning seemed to give them a sense of normalizing their brain. They don't get dizzy like non autistic people do. I made that them a low, spinning table that was covered with soft carpet and was octagon shaped so it was easy to hold on to. This piece was attached to a base with a disc with steel ball bearings so it could be spun quite fast. Once seated, we would ask the kid to hold up a finger and that is how he would hold onto them to spin them. If they had enough, they could just put their hand down. A kid with Down's Syndrome or Fetal alcohol syndrome would only last a few seconds. But the Autistic kids would just want to keep spinning. While being spun, they could sing all the words to songs and do math problems that were hard to do when just sitting still. Might be something you would like to build for your child.

You need to get this boy into a ballet class.

Bless his heart - I’m dizzy just watching the boy! Thank you for being such a great Mom to Sawyer and your other children!

Get him into ballet ASAP. He's such a pro!

I love this! He is adorable! Just a heads up, though: it's "stim", not "stem".

I have autism as well, and I am almost 18 years old and I also enjoyed spinning (and also rocking!) To see this is absolutely adorable and It brings me joy to see him so happy.

I would fall. PURE TALENT

*stim/s (It stands for stimulation). He has such a specific way to be adorable! It was a GREAT idea for starting with stretching his little body at 6-ish years old. Brava mamma! ❤

Seeing STEM in the captions several times nearly killed me...

I have a feeling he’s going too love the teacups ride.

30 yo autistic woman here. And I still love spinning!!! Nice to see a parent that embraces it rather than shame it. I was scolded so much that all my stims turned harmful, holding my breath, tensing all my muscles including my jaw - constantly, biting my lips, inside my mouth at my cheeks and picking the skin off my fingers because my healthy stims - like spinning were ridiculed.