

Diablogue #20




So, allow me (too) monoblogue:















Next post #21 ~ To be determined!



2 thoughts on ““A Monoblogue after Binge Sleeping by the One Who is Now Awake and Back”

  1. As I read this post, I am just on the edge of cyring. This exchange is so touching and so informative. It is not just about what is or is not autism. It is also about daring to use your own courage to expose what you consider to be weaknesses in a very beautifully sensitive way. Thank you both for contributing to what it means to be uniquely human and to what it means to care about one another.

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  2. I am thinking about your comment about hyper-multi-tasking, which I too experience in my bi-polar kind of mind. I am re-reading the “executive function” diablogue where you say: “Ken: One of the definitions of multitasking is prioritization. For example, to me, each receives equal importance. None are higher than the others. The most important task is the one I am looking at that moment. If somebody introduces another task, it’s a like a Lazy Susan, the new task becomes the priority. If you do this again, it repeats. That for me, and for other Aspies, is where we have trouble with prioritisation.” This is very similar to my functioning, although I seem to be practically addicted to purposefully allowing another task to take priority so I seldom really finish a task. However, if the task is for someone else, e.g. a paid job, then I suppose my perfectionism means I feel I have never finished the task, even when I have to go on to something else. Perhaps, Ken, it is a blessing that you relate so well to working in an area where you can know when the task is finished and you are confident you have the skills to do it well. In the field of social work and education I have mostly been in, the task is not so clear-cut. But even as I reflect here, I am seeing that finding tasks that are clear cut would go far to salving the restlessness I struggle with as an unemployable disabled senior! Thanks!

    I also find that having an on-going stressor that cannot be addressed in any immediate time frame seems to shrink that “box” of available brain capacity before needijng to just “crash and reboot”. I wonder, Ken ,if this is true for yourself as well. (I do not need to binge sleep, but I do find other ways to accomplish the same thing, like reading easy novels and walking nowhere lots for however many days, minimally interacting with others, In fact, I have trouble sleeping at all when I am in over-stimulation mode.)

    Again, thanks for what you are doing here, especially the interplay that is so loving and bold!

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