Taxonomy of Terms / VIII. Aesthetics and form
CNS term. Defined on this site.
A reading practice that understands poetic repetition as stimming and stimming as composition. Refrain, anaphora, metre, echo and formal constraint do regulatory work: they modulate arousal, distribute sensory load and make duration bearable. If poetic repetition is regulatory, the clinical effort to extinguish repetitive behaviour is also a literary judgement, made without literary vocabulary.
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How to cite
Ezzy, T. (2026). Stim poetics. In Critical Neurodivergent Studies: Taxonomy of Terms. https://criticalneurodivergentstudies.com/taxonomy/stim-poetics/. Accessed [date].
In the same tier
Stim lit, Stim cinema, Stim armature
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