tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post2461309926152556006..comments2024-01-28T00:21:38.809-08:00Comments on We Are Like Your Child: MeltdownAlyssahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06413844178426365789noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-7752185432361005982014-08-26T18:06:22.323-07:002014-08-26T18:06:22.323-07:00Good for me. TQGood for me. TQNanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07809313197602047137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-23171037868241145542014-02-22T20:11:43.971-08:002014-02-22T20:11:43.971-08:00I know that pain too.
Right now I'm respondin...I know that pain too.<br /><br />Right now I'm responding to this post on a different level: Curiosity, because this is a little similar to how I responded when first trying mindfulness-like things. When the yoga instructor saw me crying, she said that that's a fairly common response. Is it particularly common for Autistics to become strongly upset when doing activities like this?<br /><br />For me, the first thing was a few times I attended an on-campus yoga class as a 17-year-old college freshman. The exercises were okay (if difficult for me, given that I have a couple of minor physical disabilities as well as motor skills impairments), but when we got to the end and has to lie in corpse pose, I would break down and cry and sometimes have to leave. One time I went and the entire session was on "rest poses". I took it for as long as I could before running out of the room to the indoor track, where I ran and ran and self-injured. I was probably crying then, too, though I don't remember it.<br /><br />For me it wasn't sensory, or at least I don't think it was. It felt like something was ripping my mind open from the inside.<br /><br />Later on, I took up meditation for a while. The first time I tried meditating, it brought up serious suicidal thinking, but I've dealt with suicidal thoughts for years and manage them without acting on them (a form of self-taught mindfulness, I believe). I kept meditating to try to delve into what was bothering me so much and resolve it, and fairly quickly meditation became an overall positive thing. It can help me with my concentration and reduce compulsive tendencies if I do it daily. If I meditate after going many months without doing so, sometimes I get an echo of those negative emotions.<br /><br />Really interesting to find out that at least one other Autistic person has had a negative reaction to mindfulness and yet wanted to go on trying.adairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05665028373027605232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-45627749693250003152013-12-31T11:05:34.792-08:002013-12-31T11:05:34.792-08:00Autisticook, you have written this so very clearly...Autisticook, you have written this so very clearly. Much love to you! Love, IbElizabeth J. (Ibby) Gracehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08330631899371657005noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2799087240760337340.post-5398719245985914812013-12-28T05:29:03.424-08:002013-12-28T05:29:03.424-08:00Thank you for sharing this painful story. This bl...Thank you for sharing this painful story. This blog is helping me understand a fraction of the emotions my child may be feeling.<br />Jo who can't think of a clever nicknamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02663450738390351663noreply@blogger.com