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Tag: mental health

  • Why interpreting body language is flawed

    Why interpreting body language is flawed

    Maybe body language interpretation does work for some people. But it’s no-where near perfect, yet so many people use it and make decisions based on it. Damn it, I’ve even been sent on a course in my distant past to learn it myself.

    Indeed, during that course, I remember sitting there with my arms folded. The person running the course explain how arm folding showed aggression. Everyone looked at me. It wasn’t aggression. Unknown to me, at the time, it was an effect of my ADHD – if my arms weren’t folded, I would have been relentlessly fiddling.

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  • Social interactions: it’s not just on stage that I’m acting

    Social interactions: it’s not just on stage that I’m acting

    After a 4 year hiatus I’m back performing musicals. As part of them, I sing, dance (badly) and act. But it’s not just when I’m on stage that I’m acting in front of groups of people. As much as I seem to appear outgoing and extroverted, I’m actually not. It’s an act. And social interactions are actually really hard for me.

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  • I have an odd feeling of Déjà… rêvé?

    I have an odd feeling of Déjà… rêvé?

    Since I was young I, occasionnaly, have an odd thing happen to me. Something will play out in front of me and I’ll immediately get a strange sensation – a sort of “spidey sense” tingling – and an immediate realisation that I’ve seen this exact scene in a dream (despite not having remembered dreaming about it until that point – don’t ask, I can’t explain it myself).

    When I was younger I thought I was having premonitions of the future (albeit, really crappy ones) but, as logic kicked in, I disregarded that, whilst never really knowing what it really was.

    I still don’t but, today, I have a name for it.

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