Comments on: I knew moving took effort, but… https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/ Tue, 29 May 2007 04:37:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Left Brain/Right Brain » On media, neurodiversity and science https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17397 Tue, 29 May 2007 04:37:01 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17397 […] At MIT Amanda Baggs has been working with the science team there in ways that will result in positive and scientifically valid ways of helping autistic (and other) people. […]

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By: Ms. Missy Link https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17396 Sat, 19 May 2007 22:37:10 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17396 I found this sight for slightly affordable GSR products.
http://www.electronichealing.co.uk/products/mantra_biofeedback.htm

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By: Eleanor https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17395 Fri, 18 May 2007 10:17:09 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17395 I was thinking more about the GSR thing last night and your typing being virtually “automatic,” and it occurred to me that, for most people, communication is an in-through-the-ears and out-through-the-mouth thing. But for at least some people on the autism spectrum, the more natural pathways may be in-through-the-eyes and out-through-the-fingertips. So in that respect, your typing may occur much as most people would use speaking. With me, speaking and writing both seem fairly natural (at this point-wasn’t always the case with speaking), although I’m alot more fluent writing. With my son, who has alot more autistic traits than I do, there is no doubt that the written word is his primary language, and the spoken word is like learning a second language for him. I’d be tempted to hook him up to a GSR to see if he has different responses to auditory and written input, but he’s not really to the age where he can give informed consent…

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By: ballastexistenz https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17394 Thu, 17 May 2007 16:04:42 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17394 It’s easy for me to understand: Rocking when it happened was automatic, typing is also not conscious, most other movement at the time was conscious, therefore… etc. It’s all based on whether it’s an automatic movement pattern or not, I have very few of those.

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By: Eleanor https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17393 Thu, 17 May 2007 15:45:06 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17393 Interesting about the galvanic skin response! From what I know about it, “normal” physical movement should not cause a response. So I guess that means that what is “normal” for you is rocking and typing. The rocking seems easier to understand than the typing–you may well have been doing that all of your life. But the typing you must have consciously learned to do at some point, by basically your brain sending commands to your muscles in much the same manner that a brain (one would think) would command a leg to take a step forward… But for you, the brain-leg command causes a GSR response, but the brain-fingertip-typing command doesn’t. I bet you’re keeping those MIT types busy with this one!!!

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By: noah https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17392 Mon, 14 May 2007 19:00:39 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17392 Hey
I’m sad I missed Human 2.0
I had work
as usual
this is also why I missed that other thing the day before
How was that?

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By: bullet https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17391 Mon, 14 May 2007 05:02:09 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17391 I don’t know if this is similar, but I often find it impossible to let go of something I’m trying to throw. And often I’ll see something and want to react to it, but be unable to turn to look, or comment on it.

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By: fg0044 https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17390 Sat, 12 May 2007 00:25:02 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17390 This is off topic and I haven’t seen the show, but I was checking out the latest info on BBC America and came across this new show that someone might be interested.

It’s called After Thomas and is about how the relationship between an austistic boy and his dog.
http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/223/index.jsp

“This is the blurb about the real family on which the show is based:
Nuala and James Gardner – on whom Nicola and Rob Graham are based – live in a seaside town in Scotland with son Dale (Kyle), who is now 18, and their six-year-old daughter Amy. Both Dale and Amy were diagnosed with autism as toddlers, with Dale’s diagnosis being a long, arduous task at a time when autism was not widely understood. After Thomas is the story of Dale’s remarkable development through his bond with their pet dog Henry, named after his favorite engine in Thomas The Tank Engine but renamed Thomas in the film. He is unrecognizable from the boy he was during the period the film depicts – the confident, mature and friendly teenager who plays guitar in a band and works voluntarily with young Scouts is testament to the incredible impact Henry (Thomas) had on his life.”

I’m wondering if anyone seen it? Is it worthwhile?

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By: laurentius-rex https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17389 Fri, 11 May 2007 16:29:49 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17389 Interesting.

I don’t think science knows half of what goes on between the brain and movement.

I have recently been suffering from a flare up of twitching muscles and tremors, all over my body they will go off, my tongue has been doing it constantly for nearly two months now. It can be anything from a constant vibrating feeling beneath the skin, to muscles giving random twitches, some of them powerful enough to move a whole limb. The most annoying are in the face, it is like my muscles are being wound up like a clock spring and then release.

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By: Ms. Clark https://ballastexistenz.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/i-knew-moving-took-effort-but/#comment-17388 Fri, 11 May 2007 16:25:54 +0000 http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/?p=379#comment-17388 Wow. I’m very impressed. But, I hope you don’t end up being characterized badly in one of Oliver Sacks’ books.
Were you at MIT when Estee was there? I hope you will share more about your experience at MIT.

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