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Learning to take care of myself after a late-in-life autism diagnosis.
This is a good day to write about coping precisely because I’m struggling.
When things go well, it’s easy for platitudes to slip off the tongue.
But I’m here now reminding myself what I need to do.
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Learning to take care of myself after a late-in-life autism diagnosis.
This is a good day to write about coping precisely because I’m struggling.
When things go well, it’s easy for platitudes to slip off the tongue.
But I’m here now reminding myself what I need to do.
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I love alliteration and a lot of my coping mechanisms just happen to start with p.
The first cluster involves pacing, and avoiding undue pressure.
I try to achieve this by prioritising and doing things more efficiently.
This ‘expands the pie’ of energy that’s available to me.
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The first cluster involves pacing, and avoiding undue pressure.
I try to achieve this by prioritising and doing things more efficiently.
This ‘expands the pie’ of energy that’s available to me.
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Achieving this depends on several factors.
Playing the scene through to the end helps me recognise where things are heading.
Predictability is a double edged sword. Patterns can be reassuring but they also flag up the need for preemptive action.
Prevention is better than cure.
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Playing the scene through to the end helps me recognise where things are heading.
Predictability is a double edged sword. Patterns can be reassuring but they also flag up the need for preemptive action.
Prevention is better than cure.
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J.J. #Gibson on non-visual #perception, #proprioception, and the importance of #movement for #selfperception: “The point (...) is that information about the #self is multiple and that all kinds are picked up concurrently.” #SummerReading 
We need vision for movement. Walking: feeling contact of feet w/ ground isn’t everything! “You might think that the contact of(...) the foot with a surface (...) is specified by a mechanical impression of skin, by touch (...). Nevertheless there is optical specification.” #Gibson
Further, the “moving #self and the unmoving world are reciprocal aspects of the same #perception.” - - J.J. #Gibson on the specifying of limb #movement
