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NeantHumain
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 Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject: Aspie Rocker, Meet Elderly Rocker |
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Rocking back and forth is considered to be one of the more recognizable stims people with Asperger's syndrome and especially autism do, but now it looks like we're not the only ones:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/05/980501083053.htm
| Science Daily wrote: | | Nursing home residents who have dementia can literally rock away their anxiety and depression, nurse researchers have found, simply by rocking back and forth in a rocking chair for about an hour or two a day. Patients who rocked the most in a research study even requested less medication to ease their daily aches and pains, and their balance improved. |
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Nan
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Aspie Rocker, Meet Elderly Rocker |
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| NeantHumain wrote: | Rocking back and forth is considered to be one of the more recognizable stims people with Asperger's syndrome and especially autism do, but now it looks like we're not the only ones:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/05/980501083053.htm
| Science Daily wrote: | | Nursing home residents who have dementia can literally rock away their anxiety and depression, nurse researchers have found, simply by rocking back and forth in a rocking chair for about an hour or two a day. Patients who rocked the most in a research study even requested less medication to ease their daily aches and pains, and their balance improved. |
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Well, one does use one's leg muscles to rock in a rocking chair, and that does keep blood circulating in addition to burning calories, which keeps things just puttering along.... 
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:19 pm Post subject: |
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That's pretty cool.
On the other hand, I'm disappointed that this post wasn't a PR piece about that guy from The Vines meeting Keith Richards.... |
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. Thats pretty interesting.
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Belfast
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| Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Have noticed that a person in a rocking chair is considered to be doing something eminently normal/mainstream, socially acceptable-yet it's same thing (I presume) as what a person with an ASD does, minus the special seat. Rather arbitrary of society to label such similar actions so differently. Surprised more people don't point this out-thanks for bringing it up.
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SabbraCadabra
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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My friend rocks, but he doesn't have autism. He suspects he has ADHD, I suspect he's bipolar...definitely not autism, though.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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It's also very comforting to infants who's parents buy them those swings so when the babies get cranky they get put in the swing. the lever gets turned a few times, the swing starts rocking and the baby quiets down.
Also, parents purchase gliders or rocking chairs so they can use motion to sooth infants while feeding. |
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Meowpurr
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| If you headbang, in order for it to be passed off as normal you just pop in some metal music and wah-la! |
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AnnePande
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:21 am Post subject: |
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I would like to invent a rocking chair that can rock from side to side! 
(But I would like a usual rocking chair one day, that would be nice.) |
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