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What Support May Look Like for BFRBs
Kind Theory, a nonprofit supporting neurodiversity awareness education, published an article I recently wrote on finding support for so-called body-focused repetitive behaviors. This article and other great blogs can be found on KindTheory.com’s “from the authors” page, or by copying the link below into your browser:
kindtheory.org/blog/what-support-may-look-like-for-bfrbs
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What Support May Look Like for BFRBs (Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors) - Kind Theory
If behavior is communication, then I'm here to reiterate that BFRBs may or may not indicate an emotional issue such as anxiety. Instead, for people like me and many others, BFRBs are most often a result of an attempt to fill some sort of sensory need (i.e. self-stimulatory behavior) to help the person regulate sensory needs, and this element is often left out of the discussion around BFRBs.
