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| Northernlights Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 73 posts - 93 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 33 of 35 13 February 2012 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
I can't tell you that much, I'd love to know more too. It sounds extremely interesting, here's their webpage explaining about it: http://psychiatry.yale.edu/research/programs/clinical_people /rtms.aspx One participant described the moment the magnet hit the right spot: the voice started to sort of stutter, it couldn't get its words out, like stopped in its tracks. Apparently Dr Hoffman is really great.
ROFL! Good job getting the topic back onto languages ;-) I felt the same, even the dreaded aural tests in the Associated Board exams. I was so relieved when I didn't have to do anything like that any longer. Getting back on topic: not having to do that has given me time to learn a foreign language lol, that was a bit of a tangent. Edited by Northernlights on 13 February 2012 at 4:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Northernlights Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4676 days ago 73 posts - 93 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 34 of 35 13 February 2012 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't know what it is with these art and music professors. My tutor at college was a nice man but you're more likely to celebrate your 150th birthday than ever hear him say what you'd done was good. I studied with him for 4 years and I think he said "good" once, literally! The rest of the time it wasn't then, I suppose. It knocked my confidence a lot, and that's also the time when stage nerves became a problem for me. The criticism they gave you sounds worse, what I received was more a lack of any compliments, but from what you say your tutors were really negative. That's pretty devastating when it's the subject you're studying at college. One girl I was friends with failed her 3rd year performance exam and was told that not only was she not good enough but that she should never have got a place at the college to start with. What on earth makes professors think that saying things like that is acceptable or helpful in any way? Luckily she was fine in the end and enjoys playing now as an amateur. It might well be tougher in art, and I think it is, but in music I do know some people who flourished a few years after leaving college. But most of the people I knew went into other things, like teaching their instrument or something completely different. It does take time to find your niche, it's not like engineering where they seem to be headhunted before they've even graduated. Take care and good luck, Northernlights x 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 35 of 35 13 February 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
Although it can be scary at times, I don't really think I would want to change it. Actually, from what I've heard, there are very few bipolars who would want to get rid of their illness. It's not just that the ups are so great, but even the most extreme depression is a part of me, and I wouldn't want to lose it. It's nice to get a break sometimes though. The part I like the least is the moderate to mild depression. That's just annoying.
Criticism is especially hard for us with Asperger's. It seems to sink in extra deep. Plus, we never ever forget it. Also we tend to have such extremely high standards for ourselves, that we are never good enough anyway. If you want to draw a comic, I'm sure you could do it. Just draw it and start sending it out to publishers, or newspapers if it's a strip. Of course, you will have to expect and tolerate a hundred rejections, but you have to just keep trying. And if you think it's not good enough, just look at some of the early comic strips of any cartoonist. They usually look pretty awkward, but eventually they find their style. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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