Posted by Racer on October 1, 2005, at 22:31:02
In reply to Rigby ( everybody) T Being Very Open with Me, posted by Poet on October 1, 2005, at 17:35:34
First of all, if your T is driving you nuts about Asperger's, do what I have done in similar situations: get out the DSM criteria and go through each and every one of them. Take in a list to her, and say: "This much fits. The rest just doesn't. Your continuing to bring it up bothers me, so can we just let it go now?" Might not help, but I hope it will. (Didn't do a thing when I tried it with The Therapist From The Dark Side. More proof to her of my severe psychopathology %-P )
For the most important part, though, what sorts of trouble do you have with SensInt? (too tired to type) There are a lot of things that we do with animals who have symptoms similar to those of autistic kids, especially with that sort of movement thing where you don't seem to know where parts of you are. (I go through that, too, by the way -- and am not to be found on the autistic spectrum.) Social situations? Is that because you are uncomfortable around people? Or because most social situations involve mostly people who think that "great classic movie" means "Porky's?" (What? You wanted "Twins?") Is it anxiety about not having fluffy small talk? Or is it not being able to speak to more than one person at a time? (Even there, most of the people I know talk to one person at a time at parties. Makes for fun parties, since we switch partners every so often, so we all get to hear and tell lots of stories.)
As for the motor coordination, are you aware of being self-conscious when you get particularly uncoordinated? Or preoccupied? Have you ever tried anything to help with it? Do you want to try anything to work with it? If you do want to, and don't have any ideas, you can borrow some of mine: Pilates, which is basically yoga for the terminally uncoordinated-but-strong; swimming, which kinda forces you to get inside your body; work on horseback, which I tend to think is the best for everyone who needs to work on coordination or becoming comfortable in one's body. (heheh, 'course you need a good teacher to work with, but there are some out there...)
Poor Poet, I'm on a ramble here. I'm sorry that you've got a T who's so excited about this new insight into your problems. {snort} As for the kid thing, though, doncha worry none about that. You look pretty dang good from here...
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