[AutoAdv] tactile defensive

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What is tactile defensive?

Re: echolalia

I think so. I am not always certain. I know I have never introduced

myself as " Jim " before, repeating what someone said! I also have a

bunch of tics that I never had before. I don't know that I ever had

any tics other than one where I shrug my shoulder a bit. Now I have

several that just kind of happen whenever. I do a bunch of repetitive

motions I did not do before (in addition to the ones I already did). I

think I talk in a more hesitant fashion. like. I. stop. after. every/

word. sometimes. I think I spend a lot more time looking at things

like cracks in the floor or pixels on the computer, although I have

always spent a lot of time doing that so maybe am just more aware of

doing so. My mother noticed some of the repetitive motions because she

teased me about them. So they must be new to her, too.

I don't really mind my idiosyncracies. ... except the ones where I

forget to do something, or get lost in traffic, or can't get myself to

do something like send an invoice after I have done a job (I have one

invoice I have not sent for 3 weeks because it just seems like " the

time is not right " to sit down and write something that might take me

ten minutes to do. Argh! Also, I am much more tactile defensive than

in the past.

Rhonda

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> do you feel like your 'idiosyncracies' are getting more numerous

with the stress?

> jo

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