I stopped reading halfway through your article, Julian, to go off and research Dabrowski's Positive Disintegration. - Such a timely and helpful gift that you have dropped into my lap, that I had to comment to say thank you, before continuing with your article.
I'm afraid I'm not a coffee buyer (as I have neither money, nor bank account - by choice) but I do read your regular articles and always appreciate them - and you personally. And your cats too, of course!
Thank you for your obsessive writing, for pointing me to a very interesting theory of personality development, and for the regular updates regarding your feline friends.
Sending warm greetings from sunny Portugal. 🙏🪷💚 (Now back to reading your article...)
Thank you so much for this kind message.,Dabrowski's theory proved helpful to me in my 20s when I was constantly disintegrating....LOL. It is also related to "flow theory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi . My feline friends say hello!
I will take a look. Many thanks Julian. Wishing you, Ichi and Chappy a wonderful day from me, Bubba (the cat) Moxy, Ninja and Alma (the dogs) and the four chickens whose names I won't bore you with. 🙏💚🪷
When i'm in a routine, i hate stopping. But i can stop. It generates a feeling of being torn in two and having to leave behind half of me.
But i can stop. There are 2 types of Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) the one that is part of Autism and the one that appears to occur outside of it. The last one is when someone cannot stop (like banging his head to the wall).
Another form is mentioned for 'Stimming' (self-stimulating behaviour), i feel the impuls to do that, but i can abort it, so that is doesn't show, at least not too obvious. Flapping your hands, rhythmic movement of your body like on a rocking chair and other repeating movements. I was told: 'Don't be so childish.' I was a 'big boy', so i suppressed or hid my impulsive movements. Again i could stop it.
But when you look sharp, you can see micro movement. (like Alexander, when he is a bit more emotional as normal...) Being Autistic you notice more details than just the "important ones".
My Hypothesis is, that because of over-connectivity (with Neurons and Dendrites) between the older (Mammal) Brain and the Frontal Neocortex (Language, Social communication and 'concepts' like Will, Ego, Time, Authority and group-thinking) by Autistics (The Autistic Brain), the frontal cortex is very often over stimulated (Overloaded) this stimming creates some rest, because it is sensorimotoric and does not need the Frontal Lobe.
When i am in Hyperfocus (or in Flow) i am NEVER overstimulated, because the Frontal Lobes are shut off. So then i do not feel the impuls to Stim.
I stopped reading halfway through your article, Julian, to go off and research Dabrowski's Positive Disintegration. - Such a timely and helpful gift that you have dropped into my lap, that I had to comment to say thank you, before continuing with your article.
I'm afraid I'm not a coffee buyer (as I have neither money, nor bank account - by choice) but I do read your regular articles and always appreciate them - and you personally. And your cats too, of course!
Thank you for your obsessive writing, for pointing me to a very interesting theory of personality development, and for the regular updates regarding your feline friends.
Sending warm greetings from sunny Portugal. 🙏🪷💚 (Now back to reading your article...)
Thank you so much for this kind message.,Dabrowski's theory proved helpful to me in my 20s when I was constantly disintegrating....LOL. It is also related to "flow theory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaly_Csikszentmihalyi . My feline friends say hello!
I will take a look. Many thanks Julian. Wishing you, Ichi and Chappy a wonderful day from me, Bubba (the cat) Moxy, Ninja and Alma (the dogs) and the four chickens whose names I won't bore you with. 🙏💚🪷
Obsessive...
Sounds familiar to me.
When i'm in a routine, i hate stopping. But i can stop. It generates a feeling of being torn in two and having to leave behind half of me.
But i can stop. There are 2 types of Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) the one that is part of Autism and the one that appears to occur outside of it. The last one is when someone cannot stop (like banging his head to the wall).
Another form is mentioned for 'Stimming' (self-stimulating behaviour), i feel the impuls to do that, but i can abort it, so that is doesn't show, at least not too obvious. Flapping your hands, rhythmic movement of your body like on a rocking chair and other repeating movements. I was told: 'Don't be so childish.' I was a 'big boy', so i suppressed or hid my impulsive movements. Again i could stop it.
But when you look sharp, you can see micro movement. (like Alexander, when he is a bit more emotional as normal...) Being Autistic you notice more details than just the "important ones".
My Hypothesis is, that because of over-connectivity (with Neurons and Dendrites) between the older (Mammal) Brain and the Frontal Neocortex (Language, Social communication and 'concepts' like Will, Ego, Time, Authority and group-thinking) by Autistics (The Autistic Brain), the frontal cortex is very often over stimulated (Overloaded) this stimming creates some rest, because it is sensorimotoric and does not need the Frontal Lobe.
When i am in Hyperfocus (or in Flow) i am NEVER overstimulated, because the Frontal Lobes are shut off. So then i do not feel the impuls to Stim.
Just saying...
Sander.