Posted by Dinah on April 24, 2008, at 18:32:33
In reply to definitions... » Dinah, posted by twinleaf on April 24, 2008, at 18:13:31
Thank you Twinleaf, for both this post and your previous one. I do appreciate the value of nonverbal knowing, and nonverbal communication as well.
And perhaps I shouldn't be so hard on myself for not being able to explain those things well.
But I really do have an inability to explain things in different ways or to define things even if I know how to use them in context. It was a source of annoyance to my friends in school, who eventually gave up asking me for help. And the people at my office ask for help but add "But not from Dinah!". My husband finds it amusing, and among friends it can be funny. We laugh that my brain is not random access. He knows me well enough that he can sort of jog me forward without upsetting me. My therapist has gotten pretty good at getting me unstuck too.
But maybe I should separate that knowledge about myself from the question of making nonverbal knowledge verbal, and not feel as bad about the latter.
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