My Work With Stroke Survivors
A client of mine, a doctor, referred a stroke survivor to me one
day, a celebrity personality, Dick Clark. My friend said that medical
science had done all that it could for his client and he couldn’t
bear to leave him with only what he had achieved in the first six
months of rehabilitation.
I
come to what I do from a sort of different angle. I am an autistic
adult and autistic people are often credited with being able to
easily envision very complex systems more easily than normal people.
For example, many computer programmers are high functioning autistic
people. So, as is common to autistic people such as Einstein and
Di Vinci, I am able to easily conceptualize a complex system. For
me, the mechanics of the human body are more exposed than it seems
to be for others. I can hold all 600+ muscles and 200+ bones in
my mind as I work with a body. I can also ‘become’ the
body of the person I am working with and know what is needed to
get a specific action done.
It seems that, perhaps because of my autism, I am able to perceive
messages sent to the muscles, even tiny ones or unfocused ones,
being sent by the brain to a muscles and I can guide the client
to augment and to amplify these messages into actual controlled
movements.
Other autistic individuals are often credited with seeing things
that more normal people miss, check out (http://www.autism-pdd.net/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5956&PN=1)
I sometimes call myself a ‘master mechanic’ of the
human body, not because I am so special but because others are so
unperceptive as far as I can tell, even the professionals.

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