Rocking

I was standing in the choir loft at church this morning looking down at all of the people. I noticed that every single parent was rocking their child. As parents, we rock our children so that they will be comforted. We TEACH them that rocking is a way to comfort oneself. There are literally HUNDREDS of "Rocking Songs."
No, I am not calling for an end to rocking.....but maybe I am calling for more understanding of rocking in Aspie/Autistic kids. I have stated before that I feel the apathy exhibited by many Aspie kids is due to an overabundance of empathy....too much emotion...so the child shuts down. Maybe rocking is simply a way for these kids to work through the emotion or the stimulus.
Our middle son rocks when he is agitated. One foot will be slightly in front of the other and he rocks from foot to foot...front to back. He LOVED for me to rock him as a child! And if you think about it, we all liked to be rocked at some point...be it by our own mothers or in a rocking chair on a porch. There is something very settling about rocking. So what is wrong....why does it unnerve us so much? I think it is because it is something that WE can not control. Just like the crying of a baby is something we can not control....so what do we do....start rocking.....