Guest guest Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 > The thing is that we can't be sure (nor can Kaiden unless he asks I guess?) > that he's making *appropriate NT* eye contact. (No harm intended, > Kaiden. I just don't want to have to look up your original to ask the same > question directly. :-) Hard to say. As I've said before, I made eye contact appropriate enough to be considered " not having Asperger's " by my clinical social worker. I have also sat in his office and rambled aimlessly about how utterly silly religion us while being hyped-up on cough syrup and nutmeg. I explained any aberration in behavior as having a cold, though, so that might have been part of why I was able to fake him out. There is also the possibility that I *didn't* fake him out, but that he never called me on it. Now, " meaningful " eye contact is something odd. Sure, I can guess at people's emotional state from how their facial muscles are. I can also guess at cognitive processess if I bother remembering the eye-movement cues from neuropsychology/NLP. I rarely if ever do the latter, though, because it's fairly useless and even if I were to make a guess at why their eyes were moving in a specific direction, they might be looking at a picture kept in a specific submodality rather than doing an eye-accessing thing. AC eye movements and gaze might be related to the amygdala and corpus colosum abnormalities. Eye accessing (e.g. looking up and to the left while solving a math problem, looking down and to the right when remembering the texture of a fabric), is based on the reticular cortex being closely linked to the ocolomotor nerves. The ability to remember or visualize things with an emotional content may be less for us, due to the smaller than average amygdala, and of course our naturally balanced left and right hemispheres (both in terms of blood flow and larger than average corpus colossum). So, we might *have* to move our eyes in order to access the correct internal representations - either memories or constructions. The perfect example would be in giving or receiving directions on how to get somewhere. We might have to look to the upper left or right in order to remember or reconstruct the images of the landmarks on the route. Make sense? Ideally, what I'd like to see is a protable MRI helmet. It would be able to map out cognative processes in real time without restricting head movement or causing an otherwise unnatural bloodflow (how many people actually lay down to have a conversation with someone). I don't know if I'll see such a thing in my lifetime, but it would be very interesting. ____________________ " I'm easily confused. It's part of my boyish charm. " -- Kaiden Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2004 Report Share Posted January 3, 2004 It's my understanding that everyone does this to a certain extent? I remember having a quiz about this in a professional seminar I was at once. WE were told, if I remember correctly, to remember an emotional event and something unemotional like a math problem. Or maybe one of the things we were supposed to remember was a color, The kind of processing we used was determined by where we looked when we were trying to remember a certain type of thing. I wish I could remember more of this, but there was no talk of autism. I think I saw this in a book somewhere as well--i'll see if I can find it. Norah > > Reply-To: AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 06:36:57 -0600 > To: <AutisticSpectrumTreeHouse > > Subject: Re: Re: question > > Eye accessing (e.g. looking up and to the left while > solving a math problem, looking down and to the right when remembering the > texture of a fabric), is based on the reticular cortex being closely linked > to the ocolomotor nerves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 14, 2004 Report Share Posted February 14, 2004 On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:44:09 +0800 " mystibird " writes: > I have a question for any of you who aren't single. How and when did > you > know that your partner was the one for you? This is a difficult question. thats why no one has answered it. Are you in a relationship then where You are questioning whether someone's " right.? " Only you'll know I suppose. Its different for each person. K ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 6, 2004 Report Share Posted June 6, 2004 You mean they feel Hot to the Touch or the sense that there are spots that are Hot, while others are not? I would say that would be a Nerve problem. I also experience it from time to time. Me Nebraska, USA mymocha@... Can anyone tell me what hot spots on your spine means. Does it > have to do with the bones or the nerves? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 11, 2005 Report Share Posted May 11, 2005 Hi , This is Maureen.It used to happen to me alot. I was diagnosed with drop foot. I got AFO ,SIMILIAR TO A HARD HAVE CASE.nOE i DON;T HAVE ANY MORE PROBLEMS..nEED ANYMORE HELP JUST WRITE mOE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 rocco0425@... wrote: >Does anyone know where the optical nerve goes or rather what controls it? I >have been having so many weird problems with my eyes (those of you on for a >while probably remember me posting about vision issues) the doctors tell me >that I don't have Chiari Malformation, but I have weird eye things going on >and I was wondering if the optical nerve is strictly controlled by nerves in >the head or does it go into the spine. Might be a dumb question, but I really >don't know....I must have been absent from school the day that they taught >that one! hehehehehe...Any help would be great. > > > Could it be a medication side effect? Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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