Comments on: Because I have never liked gravitational metaphors of depression. https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:09:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ballastexistenz » Post Topic » I write like… a bunch of sci-fi authors? https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15310 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 06:09:35 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15310 […] Vladimir Nabokov (Because I have never liked gravitational metaphors of depression) […]

]]> By: Rachel https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15309 Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:54:18 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15309 That was amazing. I have never been able to write poetry and to see it written so beautifully makes my heart soar.

]]> By: Sandy https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15308 Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:53:03 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15308 Amanda,I am so grateful for your writings.Have you always had depression? And with this depression is there anger with it, sometimes or all the time?And do you have any idea what causes you to be depressed?Frustration, inability to communicate with someone on a certain level even?I am the grandmother of two Autistic boys, One is at a higher level that the other.His accomplishments at age 4 are outstanding but his behavorial problems are very hard on him and everyone around him.Just trying to understand what is going on in his little mind.He has speech and is progressing in that.What do you think most of the headbanging, screaming,tantrums are from ?Thank-you very much dear.

]]> By: jack https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15307 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:13:59 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15307 There is a line at the end of the german poet Rilke’s Duino Elegy number 10 that says something similar — which could be translated from the german as —

“And someone who normally thinks of happiness rising,
would know an overwhelming feeling
when they see how a happy thing falls.”

]]> By: progosk https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15306 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:51:09 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15306 i’ve been looking for the right place to ask you this (after having made your aquaintance over on metafilter) – and this post, given the gravitational mood metaphors touched on above, seems a better pretext than most: what – if anything – do you make of the surfing&autism stories (recently on mefi too: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57607 )?

not that i want to turn you into a litmus test for any autism related topic – it’s that your stance on treatment as such, as well as on unfiltered first-person experience called these stories (where the two are rather unusually combined) to mind.

(i don’t surf, and i have no-one autistic in my immediate circle. but the idea resonated as sincere, and as a fresh, unfettered approach.)

thanks in advance.

]]> By: Heart https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15305 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:09:22 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15305 Wow, I have goosebumps. I’ve already forwarded this along, ballastexistenz, thanks for posting it.

Heart

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15304 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:15:48 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15304 Oh believe me I’ve written a lot of stuff that sacrifices one or the other.

]]> By: Miut https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15303 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:31:11 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15303 My experience of depression has never resembled the “trough” that a lot of people describe it as, either. It’s not a metaphor that I’d have come up with.

I love these poems. I love the imagery, and the clearness of the writing. And that they are both very descriptive and concise, while a lot of writers tend to end up sacrificing one for the other at least a little bit.

]]> By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15302 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:32:24 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15302 No, if I publish poems it’ll be self-published.

]]> By: Jennifer https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/01/23/because-i-have-never-liked-gravitational-metaphors-of-depression/#comment-15301 Tue, 23 Jan 2007 22:30:55 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=292#comment-15301 Beautiful, just beautiful Amanda. Did you ever think of contacting a publisher to consider some of your work?

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