Flap Your Hands

"This is big. This is huge. The impact that this book could have on a kid is incredible. And EVERY educator needs to read it! This book is so simple, yet it says so much! A mirror, a window, a sliding door. . . a revolution. The great taboo of stimming is broken! Within these pages, the shaming is cast into the dustbin of history and the celebration has begun!"

"Normalizing, destigmatizing stimming with these beautiful examples. . . I absolutely recommend this book: 5 stars, fantastic, with a flap, flap, flap. Go get your copy today!"

"Children on the spectrum may well recognize some of the comforting and expressive actions described here. Vibrant, impressionistic illustrations created in Photoshop introduce four preliminary scenes of children experiencing sensory overload or overwhelming emotions before launching into gorgeous double-page spreads. . . The short second-person sentences give the text an inviting tone that furthers the book's uplifting and inclusive messaging."

"This is truly a celebration of neurodiversity that goes against decades—perhaps centuries—of stigma and tells kids that stimming isn't just OK; it's liberating. A beautiful book with an important message for autistic children and those who know them."

"An arrestingly illustrated introduction to the concept of self-regulatory movement. . . Relying on this emphatic visual manifestation to contextualize feelings of dysregulation, this aptly experiential representation of stimming foregrounds the idea that 'no feeling is too huge to handle—// No noise too jarring to bear—// When everyone's allowed to stim// And celebrate who they are!'"