a very spirally conversation with my dear friend and somatic practitioner, Adina Docter || links to a FREE conversation with Dr. Nick Walker on 26 June || my workshops are back by popular request!
The part where you say that a state of neurodivergent being can be perceived as a dissociation, resonates with me. Until I started to get savvy about other neuro aspects in life, I could only translate this in my paintings. I often drew creatures with "vacant" looking eyes and dual natures.
To me, it was never a negative thing, but a way to convey this feeling of *being* of existing all around and not in a defined point as we are taught/forced to be.
The part where you say that a state of neurodivergent being can be perceived as a dissociation, resonates with me. Until I started to get savvy about other neuro aspects in life, I could only translate this in my paintings. I often drew creatures with "vacant" looking eyes and dual natures.
To me, it was never a negative thing, but a way to convey this feeling of *being* of existing all around and not in a defined point as we are taught/forced to be.
Now I do it more deliberately, but it was always there : https://cara.app/post/3883f355-39d1-4550-a4f7-3d3a8b799388
Oh, I love this so much! Thank you for sharing! It is so important that we claim and name all ways of seeing and being.
Thanks! Yes indeed, there is no one way of perceiving this.
And this post finally prompted me to share my “quantum theory” here. I’ve been talking about this for a while now to explain how I see the world.
Yes, yes, yes!!