My condition is one I've had all my life & as strange as it sounds when I touch my left & right fingers with each other (kind of connecting both sides of my body together) my condition is 'fixed'. Happens every-time consistently & has to be my skin touching the stronger the effect is when my thumb or index fingers on the fingerprint side are touching the opposite ones of the other hand. I am aware of how crazy & impossible this sounds believe me. When touching Im 'In the moment' the here and now. more logical as opposed to perceiving things just emotionally. take in what my eyes see without needing to focus can concentrate easily without distraction. think about things whilst still being able to take I what I see my surroundings. Much less clumsy and spatially aware. I take in what I see Im doing. Not forever internalising constantly in my head as opposed to in my environment. not having to 'think' hard to concentrate on any tasks and perform them. Perceiving and reacting to the world it is so markedly and instantaneously different. Its like my eyes suddenly 'see' outwardly my thoughts reflecting that. When I don't touch then all the aboves gone. Im left clumsy 'internal' daydreamy emotional unfocussed etc If say my left hemisphere needed 'training' as to the brain being able to learn 'plastic or malleable' then I don't understand why it 'works' when connecting then then suddenly literally 'switches off' when unconnected as though it never existed. I've been fired from several really easy basic jobs over the years for incompetence yet Im qualified to degree standard. c.t. scans that showed no physical abnormality or lesions. s.p.e.c.t. scan showed several marked 'hot spot' areas of overactivity in the right hemisphere and some under-active areas in left. Though that is simplifying things.
2014-11-17 11:12:31
Hi there and thanks so much for posting this interesting question.
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2014-11-17 11:12:59
