self-expression

The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.

Noun

  1. The means by which one's personal characteristics are displayed; showing one's internal beliefs or character by means of external actions/changes.
    • 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...

Origin

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English expression English self-expression From self- + expression.

Forms

self-expressions