tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post1954569843194419366..comments2024-02-04T16:46:03.204-08:00Comments on Radical Neurodivergence Speaking: Borrowing PraxisNeurodivergent Khttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02815685510033244185noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-75889091963411977262015-12-14T03:36:53.379-08:002015-12-14T03:36:53.379-08:00Wow, this is my exact experience. I also need a cl...Wow, this is my exact experience. I also need a close person when I go shopping in order to not get stuck while talking to people. Good thing I pay with my money, or else I wouldn't be the one buying.<br /><br />I feel that sometimes, it is easier to "ground" myself than others are present and help me.<br /><br />I guess it is all about people seeing a person who they think that can't think and their "obvious" thought is that it is not them. <br /><br />I have this experience with people while I shop and go to the bank. If someone is present, and looks normal enough, my words are taken more seriously and people don't brush me off and ignore me. It is similar but different, because I can talk with my mouth, and if this "normal" looking and moving person agrees with me or just say nothing but they are "clearly" a thinking person, so my words must be as valid as theirs. Although sometimes, only if they repeat what I say, my words are heard. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-23137067741356401292015-11-26T20:40:04.171-08:002015-11-26T20:40:04.171-08:00"Borrowing initiation" is such a good wa..."Borrowing initiation" is such a good way of describing it. My partner and I get so much more done when we go in the kitchen together. Even if ey only stays for a little while, it's so much easier for me to start cooking with em there. Unfortunately, we also borrow inertia from each other sometimes. I get less done when ey is watching TV, even if I'm not actually interested in the TV show and could theoretically stop watching and do something else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2147438406266555027.post-5917754809603420762015-11-26T18:46:17.713-08:002015-11-26T18:46:17.713-08:00Homework was very hard work for Ben,and he would s...Homework was very hard work for Ben,and he would spend 3 or 4 hours while other kids might spend one half hour. It might have been praxis, it might have been as it is referred to in some of his testing as his "processing speed" that qualified him for double time in writing, time and one half in Math when he attended college.<br /><br />I think it affected his ability to keep his mind on his work. You did NOT want to send him to his room, it would never get done. What worked best was if I was sitting by him, not necessarily helping him... or in the kitchen next to the table cleaning up or cooking---he asked me to be by him when he worked. And as hard as homework was to him, I think typing for communication is much harder.<br />Usethebrains Godgiveyouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05026223483117357541noreply@blogger.com