Re: tv/video (was Pharmaceutical Help for..)

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I've been tv free perhaps half of my life. And yes, the absense of tv definitely in my case has a calming effect. Going without is difficult for the first few weeks to a month- it's definitely an addiction! But after you find things to fill in that time and enough weeks pass I start to feel normal, and then relaxed. I think I'm generally pretty distractable in any case, but when I've been tv-free for awhile and I go into a room with one on- it's almost impossible not to be drawn in by it. I try then to go out of my way to avoid being around one even briefly, other than just passing through the room. That's very interesting what said about whistling at sports events and Japan. It's a long story but ever since I was small I wanted to travel there. Lately I've been wondering if it might be more of a AS-friendly place then most other countries. According to one or two cross-cultural

studies of ASDs Japan is supposed to have roughly the same rates as the US, but those are very recent and tentative. Once I had a tv and vhs. I played some movies over and over again. I'm a little curious as to what other people on this list have watched more than three times or so. For me- both the Lynch version of Dune and the science fiction channel 7 hour version I've watched over and over. Also, Bladerunner... Pi... the Oliver Stone movies about Nixon and about JFK... Thirteen Days (about the Cuban missile crisis)... I'm sure there are others but I can't think of them just now. I've probably had on the 7 hour Dune version a total of over 100 hours, but a lot of that has been while making dinners and so on. Heph miminm <mnmimi@...> wrote: > > My life is quieter and stress free as a result of cutting out so much > TV, and ironically, if I look at commercial TV these days, it stresses > me out to such a point that I have to turn it off almost immediately.> > Tom> Administrator> I was TV free for 7 years, now commerical shows are available I watch only science shows (evolution, science channel, or mythbusters(but that is for my boyfriend) All day the house is quiet. We only tape shows and edit out the commericals. Yes regular TV hurts my

brain. There is an immeadiate calming effect, and the result is that you live a life. I also sometimes read or listen to news radiomimiHephaestus Clubfoothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestushttp://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hephaestus.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabeiroi

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re: tv free

hi

ive also been tv free for many years...i hate it

we do have one here but i never turn it on, sometimes my sons watch it tho they are much like me and detest the subliminal brainwashing that is engendered by content on the tv....

aand you never see any of us AS ppl represented well....or at all....

i also overload very quickly with the noises, my house is deliberately kept quiet....

once i wished i were deaf....noise hurts me so much...

waves to all form very hot (40%c) australia

Deb from downunder

From: Hephaestus Clubfoot <lemnosforge@...>Reply- To: Subject: Re: tv/video (was Pharmaceutical Help for..)Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:20:19 -0800 (PST)

I've been tv free perhaps half of my life. And yes, the absense of tv definitely in my case has a calming effect. Going without is difficult for the first few weeks to a month- it's definitely an addiction! But after you find things to fill in that time and enough weeks pass I start to feel normal, and then relaxed. I think I'm generally pretty distractable in any case, but when I've been tv-free for awhile and I go into a room with one on- it's almost impossible not to be drawn in by it. I try then to go out of my way to avoid being around one even briefly, other than just passing through the room.

That's very interesting what said about whistling at sports events and Japan. It's a long story but ever since I was small I wanted to travel there. Lately I've been wondering if it might be more of a AS-friendly place then most other countries. According to one or two cross-cultural studies of ASDs Japan is supposed to have roughly the same rates as the US, but those are very recent and tentative.

Once I had a tv and vhs. I played some movies over and over again. I'm a little curious as to what other people on this list have watched more than three times or so. For me- both the Lynch version of Dune and the science fiction channel 7 hour version I've watched over and over. Also, Bladerunner... Pi... the Oliver Stone movies about Nixon and about JFK... Thirteen Days (about the Cuban missile crisis)... I'm sure there are others but I can't think of them just now. I've probably had on the 7 hour Dune version a total of over 100 hours, but a lot of that has been while making dinners and so on.

Heph

miminm <mnmimi@...> wrote:

> > My life is quieter and stress free as a result of cutting out so much > TV, and ironically, if I look at commercial TV these days, it stresses > me out to such a point that I have to turn it off almost immediately.> > Tom> Administrator> I was TV free for 7 years, now commerical shows are available I watch only science shows (evolution, science channel, or mythbusters(but that is for my boyfriend) All day the house is quiet. We only tape shows and edit out the commericals. Yes regular TV hurts my brain. There is an immeadiate calming effect, and the result is that you live a life. I also sometimes read or listen to news radiomimiHephaestus Clubfoothttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestushttp://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/hephaestus.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabeiroi

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" I played some movies over and over again. I'm a little curious as

to what other people on this list have watched more than three times

or so. "

I do tend to watch the same movies over and over again because very

few new movies are ones that interest me and provide me with the

satisfaction that older movies do.

I have levels of entertainment.

Light:

A Christmas Story

Alien

Alien II

Alien III

Alien IV

Bram Stokers Dracula (directed by Francis Ford Copula)

Certain nature documentaries.

Dr. Who Episodes from the original series.

Ghostbusters.

Ghostbusters II.

Indiana and the Last Crusade

Indiana and the Temple of Doom

Land of the Lost episodes from the original series.

Saving Private

Star Trek IV

Star Wars

Star Wars, Return of the Jedi

The Mummy.

The Mummy Returns.

The Waltons Episodes from the original series.

War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise version)

Medium:

Clear and Present Danger

Continental Divide

Dances with Wolves

Full Metal Jacket

Gorillas in the Mist

Jaws

Labyrinth

Last of the Mohicans

Other nature documentaries.

Rear Window

The Pelican Brief

Titanic

The Crown Affair (New version)

Witness

Heavy:

Gatica

Hotel Rawanda

I Dream of Africa

[Guest guest]

>

I think I'm generally pretty distractable in any case, but when I've

been tv-free for awhile and I go into a room with one on- it's almost

impossible not to be drawn in by it. I try then to go out of my way to

avoid being around one even briefly, other than just passing through

the room.

This has been the case for me as well TV was an addiction, Like you

have said I got sucked in/tunnel vision can't leave even if the show

was stupid as a child. Tv can also make me sad or frighten me. Effect

my emotional mood. So like you it is as if I hide from the TV. Like

an alcoholic removing alcohol from their environment. thanks Heph

Oh and I am VERY distractable.