Re: Timelines

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Hi Sandy,

A while ago I realised I had no sense of time, my brain rebels to

even think about trying to draw a timeline. I live in a sort of time

bubble that has little relationship with the past or present, even

the recent past and present. It's got worse as my health

deteriorated and as you know some of my symptoms are ASD ones.

Just wanted to say that for me personally there are benefits to

this. Some of my symptoms are really awful and being able to

emotionally shake them off very quickly, like when a sitting baby

keels over, cries and is quickly back behaving as if nothing

happened, is really useful for my psychological health. If I built

up some sort of historical memory about it or projected past

experience in to the future I think I'd be pretty fearful and cowed,

where as usually I'm uncommonly optimistic.

So I wonder if this might be a benefit with children who have awful

symptoms or sense of loss, that they can move on from this with

greater ease than might be expected?

As my sense of time deteriorated with deterioration in neuro health,

I'm wondering, hoping that this will improve when my neuro health

does. At the moment neuro distress is very high, and trying to

improve one function seems to make another worse. (Like trying to

juggle too many balls.)

Jacqui

>

> Hi everyone,

>

> I was just reading again about NLP timelines

>

> http://www.brilliantminds.net/timelines.html

>

> Basically how we view past and future - normally either as behind

and

> out in front, respectively (IN time) or stretching left to right in

> front of us (THROUGH time).

>

> Asking Tim the questions suggested in the book we realised he

doesn't

> have any timeline at all (being the optimists we are we gave him

one

> to try to use :-)). We remembered Zoe's article from a while ago

> (RDI) about how building a narritive history is something that

> doesn't come easy with autism and wondered if a lack of a time

model

> contributes? Could it be put right by encouraging a

concept/timeline

> to represent time??? Just wondering - would welcome any ideas or

> pointers to where this sort of thing is covered.

>

> ALSO but unrelated ... I've enjoyed learning about NLP and wish we

> could devote more time to it. Through this reading we came across

> Joe 's Hero's Journey - which many of you may be familiar

> with. We weren't and we've found it very interesting. Doesn't

help

> directly with treating autism but puts a lot of things into context

> somehow.

>

> Best wishes,

> Sandy

>