Comments on: Blowing noses and perception of learning https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/ Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:25:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: andreashettle https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10797 Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:25:39 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10797 I didn’t know how to whistle until I was about 30. People tried to teach me when I was younger but I didn’t get it. (The closest I came was SOMETIMES being able to make a whistling sound by blowing on a blade of grass held in a certain way between my thumbs.) Then I started exercising regularly … and during this time I was breathing heavily and holding my mouth in a certain way and produced a whistle by accident. (Good thing I was still wearing my hearing aid during exercise back then or I wouldn’t have realized it. I no longer wear my hearing aid during exercise because I discovered at some point that the sweat gets in it and does screwy things with it. Without my hearing aid, I can’t hear myself whistle–it’s too high pitched.) After a while of paying attention whenever I whistled by accident, I learned to produce it on demand — but only during exercise, when breathing heavily. Then with more practice, I got myself to the point where I can produce a whistling sound maybe half the time even when not exercising. I still can’t whistle an actual tune, though. I can’t really control what note I hit — and wouldn’t be able to identify it even if I could :-)

I still can’t burp on demand, though. But then, I haven’t tried. And don’t plan to :-).

]]> By: n. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10796 Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:36:08 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10796 i remember that one of the 2 reasons I was put back to 2nd grade (after attempting to enter 3rd grade from homeschooling, and mind you I was probably reading at an adult level) was that I was not able to blow my nose QUIETLY. Who the @#$% knew this was so important?!

anyway, congratulations. and if you blow your nose loudly as an adult, hopefully there’s nothing they can do to you… Mine is still loud, if I want it to really work.

PS: I think noseblowing and belching at will (which I still don’t know how to do!), must be like whistling (which many people can’t do, I think).

]]> By: Ettina https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10795 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 22:28:29 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10795 Your description of how you learnt to blow your nose is quite similar to how I learnt to burp at will. I just accidentally swallowed air and then I learnt how it felt to do that. Someone trying to teach me was no help.

]]> By: Rebecca Jebo https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10794 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:00:23 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10794 Now I’m curious how many people have had difficulty learning this
skill. I had always thought I was pretty much the only person on
earth who didn’t learn to do it in childhood. I was in my teens
before I mastered nose blowing. At this point I can no longer recall how I figured it out either, except that it was one of those epiphany-type situations.

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10793 Wed, 05 Apr 2006 00:20:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10793 Basically a combination of picking my nose and exhaling in a particularly lucky manner at a particular point, then learning to monitor the sensations involved and control what I was doing to a greater extent, which involved a lot of highly unsanitary actions and strange hand postures, then starting all over again with tissue (and at first getting it all over my face instead of in the tissue somehow), and then learning to aim. But all of this was a whole lot of experimentation combined with some accident. I have no clue how to teach it.

]]> By: Dick Dalton https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10792 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 23:32:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10792 You are a goldmine. No really, I’m curious as to HOW you finally learned to blow your nose? I have as lot of kids who could benefit from how to do it, but I’m not sure there is good knowledge base of how to teach such a thing directly.

dick

]]> By: rocobley https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10791 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:06:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10791 This is actually a very apt post coming after the one about ‘what not changing us’ means. It puts forward a good example of what you were talking about in that last post.

]]> By: Kristina Chew https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10790 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 02:37:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10790 Charlie uses his sleeve and “tiss-oo” when we hadn it to him.

Which is different from just letting it all run out……

]]> By: Joel s https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2006/04/03/blowing-noses-and-perception-of-learning/#comment-10789 Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:45:00 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=66#comment-10789 well done! It’s very odd, I want to congratulate you honestly, but almost everything I type seems very patronizing. Anyways, I think it’s great. I wonder if hallmark makes a card for this?

Now I really wonder at what age I learned to blow my nose. I remember having to watch my Mom to move beyond the “just wipe it” stage.

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