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⌈ Secret Post #2622 ⌋

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Comments

Re: No but... OT aside.....

[nyxelestia]

I'm not even an Aspie and most of this applies to me. I can understand why one might need to sit 'properly' in formal situations (i.e. work/meetings, school, at a restaurant/cafe/public venue of some sort), but otherwise...yeah, I don't get it either, and I still pretzel up half the time (...is 'pretzel up' a word? Whatever, I'm making it a word now) and I even sleep that way as often as not. I tend to look at most basic yoga positions as "I eat/sit/sleep that way!". If I'm eating with my friends, what does it matter that I have one foot on the chair and my arm is wrapped under my knee? I'm trying to eat and read at the same time, it's comfortable and efficient! :P

Luckily, my mom did a lot of yoga and even taught some to children later on, and my dad didn't care much about it. Some family friends, though, could never quite wrap their heads around the idea that I sometimes liked to perch on the back or arms of the couch instead of just sitting ON the couch.

And yeah, non-verbal cues are a pain in the ass. I'm lucky that I have a bitchy enough personality that most people don't mind being blunt with me once I tell them so, and I managed to get enough practice over the years to learn when and how to tell that someone wasn't interested in what I was saying and I'm fine now, but that doesn't mean I don't wish people would just say so. -_- Still struggle with various physical tics, though, especially facial ones. I can keep them contained to when I'm not actively engaged with someone or facing someone, but still wish I could get rid of them completely >.< and there it is again! :P

Re: No but... OT aside.....

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to look at most basic yoga positions as "I eat/sit/sleep that way!".

:D I did yoga itself for the first time in college, when it was recommended to me by my disability case worker as a stress relief. And yes, most of the positions felt very familiar. The weirdest thing for me was the breathing, because I have trouble consciously trying to sync my breathing to my body's motions, but the movements and the positions were just fine. I got several comments that "you're very flexible/comfortable looking" and was tempted to answer that that's what happens when you sit/sleep this way for twenty years. Heh. (I used to sleep all sorts of weird ways, in particular, and change regularly during the night - I'm impossible to sleep next to, according to my sisters).

I managed to get enough practice over the years to learn when and how to tell that someone wasn't interested in what I was saying and I'm fine now, but that doesn't mean I don't wish people would just say so.

I'm ... working on this, I just have real trouble with facial expressions in particular, and body language as a whole. I can pick up physical distress fine (recognised a panic attack once before anyone in my class from a) personal experience and b) knowing what hyperventilation looks like), but reading interest/emotions is weirder and harder.

Life would be so much easy if people were allowed to just SAY things. *grumbles*

Re: No but... OT aside.....

[nyxelestia]

I remember a fitness class in which we were doing stretches, one of which was a lunge-style position where one leg is stretched out behind you and the other foot is planted in front of you so that you are leaning forward over your thigh.

At one point, the teacher told is to dip down to the side and go as low as possible, get your arm in under your front leg. Some people had already been struggle with leaning forward, some people could get their wrist around their ankle, and then there I was getting my whole shoulder in under my knee.

When asked how/why I could do that, I basically said this was how I relaxed and read books as a little kid. :P

My mother was eternally disappointed that I never had the patience for actual yoga, despite my sleeping positions apparently bordering into 'intermediate yoga levels'.