The Inner Child Theory

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Is there anyone that is or isn't interested in the Inner Child Theory?

I find it fasinating, and It kind of relates to me.

_Eric

I'm not.

ROFLMFAO!!

Sorry Eric, I can't help it, sometimes Calandale takes my breath a way. Now give it back, damn it.

More back on topic, is it dualism you're speaking of? Not familar with this one, at least in that term.

http://www.coping.org/growth/little.htm

Has this got anything to do with puer aeternus? The information on that link wouldn't come up for me.

Umm'k. Well several thougts on it. Number one, it comes in other names and terms, been around for a while.

I had real trouble with this statement "When as adults we choose to suppress the memory". Choice? I would give a big no on that. We aren't always given a choice and this is why. PTSD, you don't need to have been a combat vet to have it. It stunts the hell out of this "inner child" can make you a wild child. The term that most generally fits those here, would be Complex PTSD, which just means, trauma over time. There are other reasons, very valid that i would argue this point about.

In my travels, I met a Native American councilor, drugs and booze. We got to talking as we both had these in common. It is many of their thoughts that, once the alcohol and drugs are cleared from the body, there is a time, when the person is handed back to the Grandmothers and the Grandfathers, elders, to be reraised. The drugs stunted their growth, even though they might be 57 years old, they were but childern and needed to be reraised from childhood on. The inner child had not been allowed to grow.

Over all I understand the concept and can get along with it just fine. However any one person expecting to acomplish it all, well, that person isn't me. That I was raised by humans that were raised by humans that weren't perfect, came flawed. Well don't need to be a rocket lighter to figure out my drift here.

You might like to take a peek at dualisam. it has to do with the arguements of the thinking process. How it is built upon over time, pros and cons to both sides and off shoots from the many. A simple search for "ghost in the machine" will get you going Just ignore the links to The Police, or not, I like them too.

Inner child!! !! Give it a rest mate

I have aspergers sydrome that is my problem.

Yes s**t happned when I was a kid. I got taken up the ass by some pikies when I was a kid. It would have been a less trormatic experiance if they had given me £5 to do it.

Generally I don't have no hidden demons and I am sure you don't either. It is simple, life is hard for an aspie.

I suppose it could, but, might be a stretch. If you google "inner child" you can come with in range of the link that isn't working for you.

Having AS isn't my problem. My problem is the rest of the world doesn't. I proposed the question, do we ever grow up to be AS to begin with. I think not. We have been too stunted to have ever achived what it would have become, had it been allowed to. That what we end up with is a mix, a mix of AS traits, with the tramua that came from a world we didn't understand well and didn't understand us very well. Call it what you like, school of hard knocks, inner child problems, Complex PTSD, probably more, but get over it? Yeah I did, before it killed me. Or in some cases, they killed me. If you don't have hidden demons, how would you know, if they're hidden? I truly hope you don't have hidden demons, but don't judge me, by you. I have found more then a few and am better off for the effort. I really don't think I would have made it to my age if I had not. I was on a slow suicide road and didn't have a clue why. See AS was one of those hidden demons you are speaking about. We didn't know about it back then.

The biggest problem with a child psychologist is that he might not understand AS very well. He might be diagnosing me as an NT with psychological problems.

It would be like a doctor who tries to cure a staving mans illness. Yes, same starving man get illnesses unrelated to his malnourishment but 90% of the time it is directly or indirectly related to it.

Agreed, been through one way out DX and in the middle of another. bUt then I'm not young and it gets a bit harder to be clear with all the life expirances that can tend to muddy the water a bit. It also has such a wide range of variences, it isn't easy and it is sort of on the new side. Like I said before, it just wasn't a known when I was growing up. It would be nice if it ever gets to the point where there is some kind of real test for it, maybe on the genetic angle. Sure would cut down on the confusion and be more of a can't screw this one up doc, here it is on paper. But we go with the info we have and like you said before, give it a rest, mate. But I'll tell you what, it was a huge breath of fresh air to take that test, see that score and then somehow found my way here. Things just fell into place for me.

I once had a peculiar dream that someone--a psychiatrist, perhaps--told me that "everyone has an inner child running around in their minds," and that he wanted me to work on developing my inner child. You know what I remembered in the dream? Music.

What about the inner adult in us?

hello again. maybe the question isn't really abou "inner child" but "inner adult". what does it mean to be an adult? of course, sexual maturity is the simple answer. maybe people with a "strong inner child" were raised differently. i have never read a biography of Einstein but he was, si i have heard, a remarkably childlike man. maybe he was not taunted, abused, raped, and belittled, so his "inner child" was not squished. i think we ALL have inner kids and inner adults. i do believe that substance abuse/use can and usually does squelch development. its real early in the morning here, so i am not being terribly erudite but i like this subject. i used to be a psychotherapist in the '80's during the repressed memory craze. i left the field over that and other issues, because i thought we were manipulating people in to emotional experiences that were not necessary, and often were damaging to the clients and their families. this is disjointed, but i hope it stimulates more entries on these subjects. L

"Inner Child" is just some psychobable used to describe a principle of psycology the Dr.Drew always talks about: We tent to act out on the trauma that we receive durring childhood.

I've had a very peculiar childhood. I was bullied ever since 4th grade for choosing to have long hair, until I taught myself calculus in 8th grade. I was immediately noticed and wore a suit to school the following year to celebrate.

I've always been bullied and feel sometimes like I act as if I were still in middle school.