Re: Kassi have a question of hypnosis

[Guest guest]

I think that some autistic people are easily hypnotized. Others are very

difficult to hypnotize (just like anyone else).

With my experience, it was 1 on 1, and I really WANTED to forget, so talking my

brain into forgetting was pretty easy. And all the repetitive relaxation stuff

is right along the grain of the repetitive things I always did to get my brain

to shut up anyway. Someone who fought it-or tried so hard to not fight it they

accidentally fought it-would have no results.

Dr Amigo might know more about the subject. I just know my experience, which is

kind of an unusual one. For someone who was as easy to put under as me, it'd be

a great anti anxiety tool.

(and I am done being sick. Thank you for asking. It sounds like you had a

productive day).

Kassiane

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> Subject: Kassi have a question of hypnosis

> To: Autism_in_Girls

> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 7:11 PM

> Kassi I to be of thinking of trying to explore if maybe

> hypnotize can

> be of effectively used on those with autism and or how the

> process

> works with them since it seems one would have of to have of

> a strong

> sense of awareness of the others words and emotional states

> sort of or

> theory of mind things. You are of the only one who I to

> know who is of

> spectrum who has of shared was of hypnotized as a young

> child by the

> step father. or somethings of this .... but my question is

> I to have of

> so many fears and anxiety and such so was of wondering if

> you to think

> this sort of thinking of being of hypnotized can help of me

> not be of

> so anxious and fearful. I to know some use of it to quit of

> smoking an

> such but just not really understand of the process except

> the ones I to

> seen on TV or movies and not sure if that is of the same

> way it is of

> used in the real of life.

> sondra

[Guest guest]

when I to asked of him months back he did not seem to know much of that

approach being of used for those with autism to cope with anxiety and

or fears.... was of just trying to find a way to cope it instead of

medications and so much supplements and things because i to go through

cycles where my brain just begins of the gagging from the site of the

pills instead of the being of able to swollow of them and when force of

self to swollow of them because I to begin of this it causes the pills

to sit not right and causes nausea and indegestions.

so you are of saying it might not be of much different than the typical

populations. was of fearful it might be of more difficult for a person

of spectrum to be of hypnotized than a NS person but maybe not.

Has any here who is of NS or NT been of to ever explore of that

approach for self and if so what for and did it be of to work for you.

Kassi happy you are of doing well now.

sondra

[Guest guest]

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