Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 I can't read or write with music on, either, but I can do anything else (cleaning or anything like that I do better with music on) and I can talk with music on but only if it's not important. If it's important, I have trouble if the music is on, or if it's vocal music, it's harder than with instrumental music. Jane Meyerding wrote: wrote: >i differ . I cannot do anything (except listen)with the radio on. Cause i >end up " reading " the words so i can listen attentively, and homework style >paperwork is impossible. Laundry is ok though. I can make bears or wash dishes or iron with the radio (or music) on, but not read or write. Jane nah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 > So, I guess we can sum up from the experiences here that stimming doesn't > " distract " us from learning... and that if we're not paying attention while > stimming it's because we find the subject not worth paying attention to in > the first place? I would say not only does it not distract me from learning, but that trying to keep stimming (in the sense of the body movements) from happening would distract me from learning far more than the movements would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 At 08:14 AM 11/19/2003 -0600, you wrote: >So, I guess we can sum up from the experiences here that stimming doesn't > " distract " us from learning... and that if we're not paying attention while >stimming it's because we find the subject not worth paying attention to in >the first place? depends on the stim I guess -jypsy ________________________________ Ooops....Wrong Planet! Syndrome Autism Spectrum Resources www.PlanetAutism.com jypsy@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 For me it is better if the music does not have lyrics. Ride the Music AndyTiedye beanstalk733@... wrote: >i differ . I cannot do anything (except listen)with the radio on. Cause i >end up " reading " the words so i can listen attentively, and homework style >paperwork is impossible. Laundry is ok though. > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 Hi, I guess I can read or write with a radio going, I just don't have the radio going very often. When I was trying to learn to speak Mandarin, I couldn't say the words out loud if music was going because the music overrided the " tones " I was trying to produce. I'd sort of get confused with the tones in the music. Chinese is very odd. Camille > >i differ . I cannot do anything (except listen)with the radio on. Cause i > >end up " reading " the words so i can listen attentively, and homework style > >paperwork is impossible. Laundry is ok though. > > I can make bears or wash dishes or iron with the radio > (or music) on, but not read or write. > > Jane > > > > > nah > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 At 05:33 AM 11/19/2003 -0800, you wrote: >I have been meaning to ask you if you did that cover art for that because >I recognized it from your web site! I also do this and my doodles are >somewhat similar to yours. I have been doing them since about 6th grade >(or maybe 7th grade) and of course people think I am not paying attention >because I am doodling but I find it hard to focus if I am *not* doodling >or toying with an object or picking at my hair or something. I'll have to >post a pic of the cover of " Die Sacred Heft " which was a communal diary a >friend and I had my senior year of high school (pidgin German for " The >Sacred Notebook " ). I did one of my doodles in black-on-white like I >usually do, with blue-on-white for the words. It's the most difficult one >I've ever done, the only one that actually required concentration. I'll >put it in the " art " section of the photo album if I can figure out how to >use that, otherwise I'll just put it on a web site. > >I want to point out, also, that your doodles are somewhat similar to >Northwest Coast Native American art. That's the second thing I thought >when I saw that on your web site. The first thing I thought was, " That >looks almost exactly like what I do! " and called my husband in to show it >to him. I wonder how many of us do this? I've seen similar stuff done by spectrum folk. I have done it since at least grade 5 in the margins of my school books, at some point I was asked to keep my work " clean " and devote a separate page to doodling rather than the margins. My husband and I built our first home on the Northwest Coast of North America.... in the woods outside of Tofino BC ....out of 4mil plastic. I was however raised mostly in Canada's capital city and then the east coast so my winter on Vancouver Island as my second decade ended hardly counts for any influence on my grade 5 doodling. -jypsy > " jypsy [ janet norman-bain ] " wrote: >At 02:23 AM 11/19/2003 -0600, you wrote: > >Thanks for the information on ABA... but there's something I'm really > >unclear of that isn't talked about, and that's stimming and " stopping " it > >with ABA. > > > >It's not that I don't know what stimming is... just that I don't know if the > > " we need to stop it to get them to pay attention " is true or not. > >just more NT " misunderstanding " > > > >I found while working technical support that if I played with silly putty, I > >was able to create internal imagery of what the caller was saying without as > >much mental effort. > >I doodle to listen, hear and remember. I did the cover " art " of Chris >Gilberge's " A Guide to Asperger Syndrome " - >http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0521001838/ref=sib_dp_pt/102-1040813-9583323#re\ ader-link >The original is at the top of http://PlanetAutism.com/artwork.htm - they >are " notes " from a conference. > > > >Faking normal is a good skill, but it shouldn't be taught as the only way to > >be. Accepting differences is a better skill, as it releaves stress on both > >the accepter and the acceptee. > >http://PlanetAutism.com/acceptance.htm > >-jypsy > > >________________________________ >Ooops....Wrong Planet! Syndrome >Autism Spectrum Resources >www.PlanetAutism.com >jypsy@... > > > >nah > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 This message from nah arched across the cosmos: >I had my senior year of high school (pidgin German for " The Sacred >Notebook " ). I did one of my doodles in black-on-white like I usually do, >with blue-on-white for the words. It's the most difficult one I've ever >done, the only one that actually required concentration. I'll put it in >the " art " section of the photo album if I can figure out how to use that, >otherwise I'll just put it on a web site. I create similar drawings in margins all the time, too, and have as long as I can remember, as does my AS father. I ran across a bunch of notes/homework from my school years, and most of it has detailed drawings almost exactly like what Jypsy posted a picture of. I know I just saw it recently -- I'll look in my boxes and see if it's in there. :-) DeGraf ~*~ http://www.sonic.net/mustang/moggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 > Kaiden Fox wrote: > I live in Wisconsin. > > BEHOLD THE POWER OF CHEESE! > > OK, I'm done now. anonoymah wrote: > Ha-ha! Now I can stalk you! Just kidding. > > I live in Indiana. > I guess I won't be stalking anyone, I live in New Zealand. (I'm tempted to put a sad face after that but in a way I'm slowing becoming accustomed to the fact that at this rate I'm not going to get overseas *sad face*) Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 nah <anonoymah@s...> wrote: > nah--24 years old, live in Indiana, currently in graduate school for Museum Studies, thinking of music as a career, planning to drop out of grad school at the end of the semester, married for almost years. > > I guess that's mostly it. > > Kassiane Yelbis <MissAsparagus@m...> wrote: > Im only semi regular because of Stuff goin' on in real life, but... > > Kassiane-aged 21 (as of Monday), midwestern, gymnast and just promoted > to a team coach, more diagnoses than any THREE people need-get a DSM IV > and start reading, I have about half. Work with autistic kiddos, speak > locally and nationally a little, write some stuff, and I dont know how > to do a short blurb about anything... > > Kassiane Hey, look, a social trend thing that I've actually noticed and feel like following *giggle to self* Let's see. I'm Joyce s, as I child I decided that I didn't like being called so I requested parental permission to be called , since then I've decided I don't like being called any more (it makes me feel icky for some reason) so I've been encouraging people to call me Jen. I live in New Zealand (some islands in the south pacific for those's who don't know, near Australia). I'm currently 24 (nearly 25, um..in a little under 2 months). I went to University for three years after leaving High School, first year I failed a couple of papers and was absolutely devistated, I put all my books away and hide the games on my computer and resolved to do better the following year. I went on to failing increasing numbers of papers in the next couple of years before I gave up (so I'm stuborn and can be a bit dense on occasion). On the up side I spent the time hanging around with a fun bunch of geeks and nerds (etc.) where I learnt a bunch of useful social stuff, including deciding that having people touching my back etc. might not be such a bad thing (a very tactile bunch of people) so I spent a while (about a year?) training myself not too jump and tense everytime anyone touched my back/neck/sides, I've even had a couple of back massages since then although I still tend to tense up and haven't managed to get to the point where they don't hurt Um..spent about a year trying (and failing) to get into the airforce, I'm since pleased I didn't as it was probably a bad idea. Then we found out about the Autism/Aspergers stuff and that gave me the courage to try the education thing again. I went to Polytech to do electronics/computer stuff, I did well the first year (managed to stave off boredom just) but ran out of momentum early in the next year, predicably I didn't figure out that I should just quit and stuck around until the end of the year with my course work going down the drain. By the end of the year I decided I would prefer to do programming and thought I would give it one more try in a different educational environment. So I went to a private (expensive) company that did a self paced, set hours, set work kind of program. It was brillient *grin*, I completed ahead of time with nothing below a B+ (I might have even gotten a dux, I will know end of next week). Unfortunately in the 5 months since then I have failed to get a single job interview, let alone a job . I'm currently inclined to partially blame that on flatting with 3 other people and am in the process of retreating back to my parents until I can afford to get a flat by myself. At which point I will probably be looking for a nice easy job (maybe factory work) and hopefully do some programming at home in my own time for a bit. I also have plans to do more art sort of stuff. Hmm...oops, I didn't intend to write an epic. sorry. Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 19, 2003 Report Share Posted November 19, 2003 > Jane Meyerding <jane@j...> wrote: wrote: > >i differ . I cannot do anything (except listen)with the radio on. Cause i > >end up " reading " the words so i can listen attentively, and homework style > >paperwork is impossible. Laundry is ok though. > > I can make bears or wash dishes or iron with the radio > (or music) on, but not read or write. nah <anonoymah@s...> wrote: > I can't read or write with music on, either, but I can do anything else (cleaning or anything like that I do better with music on) and I can talk with music on but only if it's not important. If it's important, I have trouble if the music is on, or if it's vocal music, it's harder than with instrumental music. > For me it depends on the music, if I am familiar enough with it and it isn't too loud then I can read / write with it provided that it's not too difficult (obtuse language, trying to figure out stuff about internal states/opinions). But I find it much easier to do stuff like cleaning if I'm listening to the right music and there is no-one else around (being in the right frame of mind helps too). Jen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 At 10:07 PM 11/25/03, you wrote: >I live not far from Bridgeport , in fact I knew Dan Gilbride, our >friend, and miss him dearly. >Seym. >Uh, what is the welcome Packet and self advocation? I would be >interested. > > I miss Dan too and I wish he would have introduced us. Self Advocacy is basically when people with developmental disabilities like us come together to advocate for ourselves with the help (but not leadership) of non disabled advisers or simply by ourselves. I run a mailing list on the internet called Self Advocates Speaking Connecting OnLine where I wish to bring Self Advocates from across the country to talk to each other and come up with ideas to help each other. Hudson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 29, 2003 Report Share Posted November 29, 2003 At 10:07 PM 11/25/03, you wrote: >I live not far from Bridgeport , in fact I knew Dan Gilbride, our >friend, and miss him dearly. >Seym. >Uh, what is the welcome Packet and self advocation? I would be >interested. This is a mailing list for Self Advocates and other adults and with Developmental, Intellectual, Neurological or Learning Disabilities. I am a Self Advocate from Connecticut who created this list because even though there are alot of mailing lists for PARENTS of people like us, there are'nt any mailing lists for Self Advocates and other Mentally or Learning disabled people other than mailing lists created by Autistic People. This list is open to people with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Learning Disabilities, Mental Handicaps, Spina Bifida & People in Special Olympics This list is NOT OPEN to Parents or Professionals, at least for now, because there are lots of lists for them. THIS LIST IF FOR US!! Please tell any people that you know with disabilites about this list. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SelfAdvocates/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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