Anyone here unable to speak without making useless and meani

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Anyone here unable to speak without making useless and meaningless gestures ?

I apparently move my hands a lot, enough to be asked whether I have Italian ancestry or not. No one in my family does that, actually they tend not to make gestures and I make much more gestures than other French people. I can't speak without doing that, they do not mean a thing (though, now that I am working with children I try to mime things). A friend of mine once tried to tie my hands to see what would happen and I was totally unable to say a word.

It was kind of weirder when I was a kid because I used to mime a lot of things.

I think it's quite weird for someone who does not understand or really see body language. (Though I know one person who does that too, never realized).
And I do that when I think too sometimes.

probably means you are a visual-kinestetic learner. Kinestetic people do alot of hand gestures and some cannot talk, or talk well without some movement.

Yup. I do a lot of gesticulating too.

It got really bad when I did some work with the deaf community and their translators, as even though I knew no sign langauge I was flapping about with this strange semi-mime stuff that meant nothing to any of the signers or the deaf people.

I think that maybe it helps me to express myself better as I can emphasise words and 'show' what I mean more easily- although my spoken skills are generally excellent.

I move my hands a lot when I talk; I have found that it helps the flow of the thoughts I am trying to express. I used to think that it was annoying for the people around me and I tried to do it less, but ever since one of my teachers told me that those more or less meaningless gestures make people feel like I am attentive to and interested in what is being talkes about, I figured it would be okay to keep doing it.

I make hand gestures, If I am explaining something like an object, making the shape of it and how big it is, even if I'm not talking about the size

Well now I'm in Greece, I just don't move, I wave when I speak

But before I never moved when I was speaking. The only rare moments when I have to move my hands is when I was completing a complex something I was saying.

Do you feel you are completing the idea you speak about? Or do you feel that your motion is precisely linked to what you say without adding a meaning?

Honestly, it depends on what I am saying. I may try to use hand gestures to speak sometimes because I can't use words for some reasons but most of the time I feel that they do not mean the slightest thing and people agree with that. Now that I work with children who do not speak my language, I mime what I am saying so my gestures have changed a lot and this is close to what I used to do as a child but it's quite redondant, I either do gestures because I feel like doing them or to repeat myself physically.

Merci !

You know, I have been told that I could not be kinesthetic learner because I have dyspraxia and do poorly in / is not interested by sports. (Though, according to some tests, I am visual / kinesthetic), this is interesting though. I cannot concentrate on my lessons when I am not moving or drawing something.

I make a lot of hand gestures while talking as well. It's almost as though moving my hands makes it easier for the words to come out.

best way to shut me up is to tie my hands behind my back.