#introception

[t0rt1-4ng3l]

FOR PPL WITH INTROCEPTION ISSUES OML JUST TRY THIS THINGY. K HOW YOU CAN TELL SOMETHING IS WRONG BUT NOT WHAT?? THIS TELLS YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO AGGHHH YESS

[dvp95]

i cannot believe how much i hated introspective fiction before this fandom. i truly got converted by a couple of very talented writers here who are just way too good at making you feel what they want you to!!

anyway go read both to be seen and to be seen through because zan is one of the only people who could have ever converted me. normally (as in, every year before this one) i wouldn't even click on this because i was so closed-minded about introspection, and i am so thankful that i got over myself. the writing is gorgeous and achey in all the right ways and you'd be doing yourself a disservice by not reading it!

[t0rt1-4ng3l]

autistic vent:

my stupid self forgot to eat food and drink water and use the bathroom all day long, it’s already almost tomorrow and i haven’t left my room. now i have to pee so bad and i’m so hungry and my mouth is dry and my back hurts and everything sucks. time blindness is dumb because wdym i’ve been in bed since freaking yesterday. like huh 😭😭

aghhhh this is nonsense

[specialsaathi]

INTEROCEPTION, BODY AWARENESS AND AUTISM: PART 2

ACTIVITIES TO IMPROVE INTEROCEPTIVE AWARENESSTriveni Goswami Vernal(Registered Special Educator: A64010)Interoception refers to the collection of senses that provide information regarding internal states of the body – such as hunger, thirst, need for urination/defecation, feeling of fullness, experience of various emotions, feeling of pain etc.   The previous blog…

INTEROCEPTION, BODY AWARENESS AND AUTISM: PART 2

[specialsaathi]

INTEROCEPTION, BODY AWARENESS AND AUTISM: PART 1

Triveni Goswami Vernal(Registered Special Educator: A64010)Interoception refers to the collection of senses that provide information regarding the internal state of the body—such as hunger, thirst, need for defecation, urination, nausea, feeling of fullness, experience of various emotions, feeling of pain etc. Research has shown that, “The cerebral region primarily involved in processing the…

INTEROCEPTION, BODY AWARENESS AND AUTISM: PART 1

[kellymahler-blog]

Daily Activities for Self-Regulation | Interoception | Kelly Mahler

For many of us, understanding our own emotions can be a very complex or complicated task. Luckily, our bodies provide many vital clues to our emotions. For example, tense muscles could be a clue that we are frustrated or a racing heart could be a clue that we are anxious. However, many adults and children are not in tune with these inner body signals. Missing these essential clues can make the emotional experience unclear, leading to difficulty managing emotions. That’s where interoception and self-regulation come into play.

[actuallydyspraxic]

Is poor interoception (I think it's about having awareness of your internal organs and systems and stuff) a dyspraxia thing? Like I find it difficult to know if I'm hungry or full, that kind of thing.

Hi there!

I’m not sure, that’s a new one! This website is a bit helpful, it seems that Dyspraxia and poor introception are linked, but not directly.

Do our followers have more information?

Tea

[dsudis]

Hi, Dira! After many months of intending to send you this (weird?) message, I finally got to it: You write such amazing sentences. I love everything you write, even when I don't particularly care for the topic/kink at hand. This half-sentence has been floating around in my head for months now: "The asset's introspection is somewhere between unreliable and non-existent." (from memory, so might not actually be correct lol) What a perfect! Just want u to know how much I admire n appreciate ur work!

Aww, man, thank you! I feel like I spend a lot of time focusing at the sentence level. I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the results!

I actually also distinctly remember that particular sentence--the exact line is:

The asset's introception was somewhere between unreliable and nonexistent, but if prompted and allowed to focus he could usually detect and report internal sensations. (From See the Master’s Hand, which is Pierce/Winter Soldier non-con flavor Hydra Trash Party)

It sticks in my head mainly because I had to track down the word “introception,” which I had only learned fairly recently but always wanted a word for--it refers to perception of one’s own internal sensations (the way proprioception refers to perception of one’s physical position--I know that word mainly because my own proprioception is, like, mildly pathological levels of terrible). I had seen Instigator give a talk based on her paper Redefining Events: Body Concept and Bodily Relationships for Cyborgs, Werewolves, Super-soldiers, and Other Altered Bodies and one of the things she talked about was characters’ level of “introceptive awareness”--the ability to know when they’re in pain, for instance, which I expect the Winter Soldier would be pretty cut off from. Just having a word for that idea caught my imagination, and I’d been waiting for a chance to slide it into a story somewhere, and that’s where I did it!

So thanks, anon, for remembering that line and giving me a chance to talk about it. :D