A lot has been written about the stereotyped behaviour of people with learning difficulties, that is, behaviours such as rocking, hand-flapping and twiddling string. The behaviours are often seen as meaningless or harmful. Various ways of stopping the behaviours have been explored.
In this paper I ask whether we can think of some stereotyped behaviours as a kind of resistance.
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