Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(5)
Children with autism, which afflicts about one person in 500, tend to engage in ritualistic behaviors like spinning, rocking or flapping their hands.
Turning west, I had visited an entire autistic family in California — both parents, highly gifted, and their two children, all of them given (between the serious business of life) to jumping on trampolines, flapping their hands, and screaming.
Turning west, I had visited an entire autistic family in California both parents, highly gifted, and their two children, all of them given (between the serious business of life) to jumping on trampolines, flapping their hands, and screaming.
One morning when we passed, we noticed that one group seemed to be doing something different, turning in circles, standing on one foot and then the other and flapping their hands at the wrist, all completely synchronized.
Mentally challenged people may do things that society considers unusual: making sounds, flopping to the ground when frustrated, flapping their hands, running in circles, echoing phrases, pacing constantly, and more.
Similar(54)
Pretend conductors flap their hands a beat or two behind the orchestra.
Some of the children inside, when not in classes, would rock back and forth; some would flap their hands or jabber unintelligibly.
Although the performers remained fairly stationary apart from brief stints of jogging and marching in place, there was clarity in the deceptively casual way they swung their arms back and forth, flapped their hands or pitched forward like skiers.
That unlikely question popped into my head while watching actors flap their hands in unison to this South Korean pop hit so ubiquitous even its creator says he is sick of it.
Imagine if they'd flapped their hands uselessly at their face before embarking on a tedious pre-written speech that thanked their agents and the award committee and all the other nominees and reasserted their love for their husbands and ended with a vague plea for world peace.
That said, while I hate twee bakery fantasists who flap their hands around and lose their shit over cake, this badboy recipe from Pennsylvania does taste like unicorns crapping concentrated rainbows into your mouth.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com