self-injurious
English
Etymology
Adjective
self-injurious (comparative more self-injurious, superlative most self-injurious)
- Causing injury or harm to oneself.
- 2021, Erin Felepchuk, “Stimming, Improvisation, and COVID-19: (Re)negotiating Autistic Sensory Regulation During a Pandemic”, in Disability Studies Quarterly, volume 41, number 3:
- We are also perpetual stimmers: displaying or masking our stims, engaging in self-injurious or artistic stims, creatively expressing ourselves, or responding to trauma or stim suppression.