Exercises mostly for people with NT?

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Aha! Bullying?

Amongst other things...

As much as I enjoy said exercises to a point of excelling it, it doesn't translate to my real life performance and doesn't change my preferences.

To me, those exercises and my performance is exclusively enabled in a control environment, with prompts that it's just an exercise.
Never the real life counterparts without structures and prompts or the limited scope of time and space of "performing" said exercises.


So yeah...
In my case it's fun and I'd get along with that kind of exercise.
But outside that? It's a waste of time. It doesn't help me in any way except as another time killer.


Now, if I start treating life itself as if it's a play and not a stress fest... Maybe those exercises could do help me.

Acting out different made out roles. Making up little skits.

Hmmm, I am a thespian and would enjoy those exercises. Initially I would want specific directions and grace for my poor improvisation skills. That said, if the social cost isn't prohibitive, I'll try anything with or w/o good instruction. I'm the Aspie who mostly hits the gas (charges forward) when confronted with a stressful situation. My BFF is the Aspie who mostly leaves and hides when confronted with a stressful situation. I find commonality that both types of Aspie face difficulties and a differential in how they handle them.

Wishing you find a better instructor for you, or another interesting pursuit!

I know nothing of acting, except I used to hear news stories about method acting. Instead of acting drunk,get drunk. Instead of acting out of breath, go for a run. You can only take that so far

Another thing I heard of in the news is that actors think about their role and prepare, and think about motivations.
Harrison ford sat in the millennium falcon cockpit for hours before filming anything, pushing buttons etc. This allowed him to show familiarity with the controls.

I would say this type of stuff is similar to what the OP is talking about. I thought all actors relied on preparation.

I was once told that aspies often need more specific instructions in the beginning whereas NTs often need very little of that.
But why? I guess NTs are more into seeing the whole picture and go from there. I don't know but they have some kind of disorder.

Are you fammiliar with Meisner? I have heard for the Mesiner method you already need a lot of skills and should just need to follow your impulses. Meisner sounds a bit stupid to me but then again I am no expert.


We are not talking about playing a role in a film or theatre. What we are discussing is drama games in which you ate supposed to improvise.
Neither is this a discussion on method acting.

OK, so there's not enough time for analysis in those situations.

I guess actors need to start somewhere.

Gee .... I thought the title of this thread referred to workouts for fitness that NTs do. I didn't get the real meaning till I began reading the OP's message. Was my miss an example of literal thinking?

You just interpreted it as physical exercises.

Yeha I keep interpreting it as that, but then i remember its about acting

I have not. I took drama classes. I learned to make appropriate expressions and raise my voice. If I only followed my impulses, I would have done a very good impersonation of someone with ASD.

But it is not jut about acting. It is about exercises that can be used for other purposes than just helping people becoming betyer actors.

I am not sure we use the term the same way.
What do you mean by "following your impulses"?

Wordplay. You wrote that the Mesiner method says to "follow your impulses" --- I have ASD - so if one were to be literal : to follow my impulses would most often produce an Autistic character. (Yes, I am aware that one can follow impulses to reach a goal that might be to behave differently, but there's no fun in that for me.)