Re: Re: Kassi have a question of hypnosis

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I call it overly focusing...I used to do this a lot when I was little. The noise

in my home was very loud on the weekends. My step dad would blare the television

to what ever sport was on, my sisters would squeal and yell over the televison

volume, and my mother would be in the kitchen screaming over all of it. I would

be somewhere on the floor, under a table or chair playing quietly with my toes,

fingers, feet, or some object and was completely oblivious to the noises around

me. Calling my name would not break my supposed trance. I just blocked out every

other simulus but the feeling of my hands or the feeling of the object of my

obsession. I did this on my own without any idea as to why or how. However, it

was to the dismay of my parents who did notice my complete lack of awareness of

anyone around me.

 

Later in my life, psychiatrists said I was lethargic. I guess because I did not

talk much and had certainly perfected the art of tuning out everything and

everyone, even on a child psychiatic ward where there was much noise.

 

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Subject: Re: Kassi have a question of hypnosis

To: Autism_in_Girls

Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 6:16 AM

When I was a young child, my doctor taught me to stair at the shiny

knob on his cabinets is his office when it came time to get a shot. I

was so fearful when it came time for a shot or the doctor entered the

room, I would take off running. I would race out the door, though some

outside door and before I knew it I was outside running making laps

around the building. The good news, is we live in the country, his

office was in a small town, so there was very really little danger for

me, but the problem was they had to catch, calm and still attempt to

give me a shot, or get me see the doctor for a visit.

What I was told to do solve the problem was to sit in the room of the

doctor's office, look a something shiny and think of nothing else, but

the shiny. The only really shiny things in the room were the knobs of

the cabinets. I would practice and practice at the doctors office,

finally it got to the point that I could hold my attention for longer

and longer of periods of time of intense staring on the shiny of the

chrome metal shiny knob. So, the as my ability increased on shutting

down everything in my mind and shutting off the world around me, I

became calm and the doctor would enter the room very briefly, staying

longer each time over months. Eventually, I was told to stair at

something shiny when I entered the room and the doctor was able to

talk to me. I would answer him continuing to stair at the shiny, he

could even give me shots eventually without me racing out of the

building and to make laps around the building.

I have no idea how many times I would ran around the doctors building

when I was younger, all I remember is being very embarrassed, because

I came to a reality when it would happen, that somehow I ended up

outside running around the building as fast as could run. I knew by

the reaction of adults that I must have made more than a few laps and

I was so embarrassed.

I think this might be a form of self-induced hypnosis, which does give

the individual a feeling of self-control, but it worked for me to

reduce the fear and anxiety.

Bev