23 Oct 2020, 7:52 pm
23 Oct 2020, 9:39 pm
madbutnotmad wrote:
I believe an individuals balance is determined by how developed their motor cortex is.
I read that it is not uncommon for people with ASD to also have co-morbidly present dyspraxia, which is also likely present due to having a damaged or underdeveloped motor cortex.
I think that i may be a rare example of an individual who has a highly developed motor cortex that gives me superior co-ordination, balance. This coupled with a developed visual cortex and higher than average intelligence, some things in life are easier for me.
Before anyone gets upset, please be aware that this overdeveloped attributes is not without consequences.
I still have loads of areas in life that i am very clueless about and that I have major problems with that stills warrants me to being diagnosed as having Autism Spectrum Disorder. To be honest, i wish i didn't. But that's just how it is.
We all as individual human beings have our own challenges in life, some more than others. I guess we all just need to learn to live to the best of our capabilities and try and do the best to enjoy and achieve our goals in life, what ever they may be.
Returning to balance, as a kid, while training in American Kenpo karate. i taught myself how to develop superior balance by my own solo training outside of the normal class (which i frequented as a kid on a daily basis.. obsessive interest).
I started to train extra every day in my bedroom or my folks garden, by practising the various kicks i knew, but while standing on one leg to do so. Almost something like from a cheesey 80s martial movie. But you know what, it worked a treat. and eventually i could stand on one leg and fire out a range of various kicks while staying solid in my one legged stance. A bit like the legendary US kickboxer from the 80s Bill Superfoot Wallance.
My balance improved later on by training in Aikido for a few years. An art where you have to receive your partners as well as your masters throws. An art that has no strikes in, especially no leg strikes, which you learn to keep your feet firmly nailed to the ground.
This theory was mirrored in Kendo, the art of Japanese swordmanship which i studied along side aikido, which you learn to learn to make minimal movements with your feet, so as to prevent telegraphing your movements to your opponent (as telegraphing tells your opponent what your intentions are and gives them a signal to defend and to counter attack your attacks).
After that, i did go onto training in Judo, which again, is an art where you need good balance, or you get thrown very easily. After a few years training in that, i would say that my balance is now better than average.
Unless of course, if i drink lots of alcohol and then i lose my ability to stay balanced. But there ya go.
having a developed Motor cortex as well as a developed visual cortex from birth does give you an advantage in these areas of life. Shame my capacity for stress is compromised and I am hypersensitive to sensory information.
great for war, as it makes me a bit hyper vigilant, but crap for normal life. as being on edge all the time does my own as well as others heads in.
I read that it is not uncommon for people with ASD to also have co-morbidly present dyspraxia, which is also likely present due to having a damaged or underdeveloped motor cortex.
I think that i may be a rare example of an individual who has a highly developed motor cortex that gives me superior co-ordination, balance. This coupled with a developed visual cortex and higher than average intelligence, some things in life are easier for me.
Before anyone gets upset, please be aware that this overdeveloped attributes is not without consequences.
I still have loads of areas in life that i am very clueless about and that I have major problems with that stills warrants me to being diagnosed as having Autism Spectrum Disorder. To be honest, i wish i didn't. But that's just how it is.
We all as individual human beings have our own challenges in life, some more than others. I guess we all just need to learn to live to the best of our capabilities and try and do the best to enjoy and achieve our goals in life, what ever they may be.
Returning to balance, as a kid, while training in American Kenpo karate. i taught myself how to develop superior balance by my own solo training outside of the normal class (which i frequented as a kid on a daily basis.. obsessive interest).
I started to train extra every day in my bedroom or my folks garden, by practising the various kicks i knew, but while standing on one leg to do so. Almost something like from a cheesey 80s martial movie. But you know what, it worked a treat. and eventually i could stand on one leg and fire out a range of various kicks while staying solid in my one legged stance. A bit like the legendary US kickboxer from the 80s Bill Superfoot Wallance.
My balance improved later on by training in Aikido for a few years. An art where you have to receive your partners as well as your masters throws. An art that has no strikes in, especially no leg strikes, which you learn to keep your feet firmly nailed to the ground.
This theory was mirrored in Kendo, the art of Japanese swordmanship which i studied along side aikido, which you learn to learn to make minimal movements with your feet, so as to prevent telegraphing your movements to your opponent (as telegraphing tells your opponent what your intentions are and gives them a signal to defend and to counter attack your attacks).
After that, i did go onto training in Judo, which again, is an art where you need good balance, or you get thrown very easily. After a few years training in that, i would say that my balance is now better than average.
Unless of course, if i drink lots of alcohol and then i lose my ability to stay balanced. But there ya go.
having a developed Motor cortex as well as a developed visual cortex from birth does give you an advantage in these areas of life. Shame my capacity for stress is compromised and I am hypersensitive to sensory information.
great for war, as it makes me a bit hyper vigilant, but crap for normal life. as being on edge all the time does my own as well as others heads in.
Yeah. I think martial arts is the reason I have good balance. My mom put me in it with my brother when I was 6 and I stayed in till I graduated high school. Aikido, judo, jujitsu etc. Our master taught mixed martial arts.
But I still run into things and bang my head on stuff, cut up my hands, and bruise my legs. My brothers nickname for me as a kid was klutzomatic. Lol. We liked to watch martial arts movies together and Walker Texas Ranger. We had this joke when one of us was annoying the other that we were gonna give a round house kick to the face like Chuck Norris.
then we preceeded to demonstrate. My bro always said it baffled his mind how I could manage a perfect round house kick at face level and stop short of hitting him but run into the same wall regularly. Or be eating a sandwich and somehow manage to get mustard on the back of my shirt when his sandwich was the one with mustard across the room. 
My responses was always "mysteries of the universe not ment to be known".
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04 Dec 2020, 8:25 pm
holymackerel wrote:
malavois wrote:
Yes and I have no idea why. I am also extremely clumsy and live in constant fear of falling down the stairs.
I fell down the stairs a couple of months ago. All the way from the top. I wasn't seriously hurt but I was in pain for days.
Yep.. defs done that a few times. Not even from drinking. I find my knees are dodgy and give way occasionally. Only happened twice though in last couple years which is good but I've ate pavement a few times and an eye socket on stairs.
09 Dec 2020, 7:12 pm
