self-expression
English
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From self- + expression.
Noun
[edit]self-expression (countable and uncountable, plural self-expressions)
- The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
- 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly[1], volume 41, number 3, archived from the original on 22 January 2022:
- Medical culture constrains stimming through strict clinical designations and pathologizing definitions, referring to it as stereotypies or "self-stimulatory behaviours." Autistic people, however, often define stimming more broadly as repetitive sensory practices used to regulate emotional states, to cope with external sensory stimuli, or for purposes of self-expression.
Translations
[edit]showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions
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