#mirror neurons

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[luvrrofdata]

Humans are designed to mirror each other, and Data is determined to mirror humans. Is that anything.

[asdpawprint]

My favorite coping skills, in no particular order:

deep pressure from a hug

deep pressure from my dog

deep pressure from a weighted blanket or lap pad

flapping my hands

breathing together (preferably with Dad bc he matches my breathing best. Mom breathes twice as fast as me, and animals have different rhythms, but they still help too just not as much) (my therapist calls this mirror neurons)

taking a deep breath when I see someone else do it (human or animal) (this is also mirror neurons)

eating a mint

chewing the squishy part of my favorite water bottle

holding my thumb joint on or slightly in my mouth

pressing my face into my favorite childhood blanket

tucking my chin and mouth under the collar of my jacket

putting my hands on the back of my neck

gently rubbing something soft (blanket, plushie, my dog's ears, my horse's fur, etc.)

hugging a plushie

giving my horse a massage

singing along to familiar music

hiding under my blankets

organizing something inconsequential that I enjoy

listing the names of my model horses and things I like about them

various stim toys

closing my eyes and covering my ears at the same time (in a safe context)

laying flat on the floor alone in my room in the dark (I call this Mandatory Floor Time bc it's often a last resort. idk if it counts as coping but it is something I do in distress)

[humanperson-123]

BEHOLD THE MIRROR NEURONS ✨

[to-search-again]

...since, according to the “hot hypothesis” of emotional empathy, we automatically empathize with, or resonate to, the emotional expressions of others, we will do so whether or not the people we observe are really feeling what they show on their faces. The "hot hypothesis" therefore seems to imply that we are destined to spend our days resonating madly, nonselectively, immoderately, automatically to whatever facial signals someone else, anyone else, sends us, without our knowing whether those signals are telling us the truth about the latter’s emotional state. If the mirror neuron theory of simulation is true, we can be fooled—we will be fooled—about the emotional states of others all the time. Both of us disgusted in my insula? It might be more accurate to say that I will be disgusted in my insula as long as you display or perform an expression of disgust—regardless of whether you are sincere. But what kind of theory is that?

Ruth Leys, "Both of Us Disgusted in My Insula”: Mirror-Neuron Theory and Emotional Empathy (2014)

[raffaellopalandri]

The Teaching Without Words 無言之教 / wú yán zhī jiào

I have long observed that certain locutions are so tightly bound to the linguistic, cultural, and cosmological matrices from which they arise that translation, in the ordinary sense, is not merely inadequate but category-mistaken. One may transport lexical correspondences, historical glosses, and philological annotations across languages, yet the operative meaning remains embedded in a lived…

[realads]

[mumblelard]

manifestations of my familiar