So three of us have nervous tics, Gamma said.
Which three? I asked.
Mom pinches her nose, I do my stuff, and you scratch yourself.
I scratch myself?
I’ve been observing you. You scratch yourself all over.
Seriously? (I scratch myself?)
it’s raining a little today, but overall it’s getting drier. my scratching, i think, is not a nervous tic but rather a response to concrete itches. the eye twitch is definitely a tic, although it just happens, as far as i can tell, and not in response to any certain scenario. it twitches for half an hour and then gets tired of it and stops again.
mig
but i found it interesting that she was studying me. i never observed my parents like that. i never really study anyone, with certain exceptions, like a girl in the dorm dining room in college who took half an hour to eat a banana at lunch once.
chewybrain
mmm…banana twitch. actually an eye twitch is a sign of stress. it’s rather annoying, like my eye is a cell phone and someone set it to vibrate.
Yeah, Mig, that eye twitch thing is less of an adaptive tic than an actual physical manifestation of stress tic. You need to develop some behavioral thing to take its place, like tapping your right big toe or something. I used to have horrible eye- and cheek-twitches, when I was a kid, before I shunted those into the need to count every effing thing I saw. Later I figured out that you can make it go away just like when your ears ring: pretend it’s your subconscious trying to tell you something, and ask it “What?! Be a little more clear, please.” That usually makes it disappear.
mig
I was just thinking about you, Jessica. There is an envelope from you here in my office and I was thinking what nice handwriting you have.
I will try that with the twitches, and I might suggest to Gamma that she try it as well, although maybe not seeing there is a difference between the purely organic stuff like the eye and cheek twitch stuff and the odd nervous habit stuff, and I really want to avoid putting additional pressure on the kid. I will also try that with the ringing ears; usually when my ears ring I am asking other people “What? Could you speak up please?”
children. hehe.
even without seeing or meeting you, i know you must scratch yourself because gamma says it’s so. i mean, she’s been observing you.
haha. children!
actually, i’m a little afraid of connor’s observations. he’s very correct.
and blunt.
Primates at play!
you do not. however, your eye twitches when you’re making a point and don’t want to be interrupted.
is it getting dry there?
it’s raining a little today, but overall it’s getting drier. my scratching, i think, is not a nervous tic but rather a response to concrete itches. the eye twitch is definitely a tic, although it just happens, as far as i can tell, and not in response to any certain scenario. it twitches for half an hour and then gets tired of it and stops again.
but i found it interesting that she was studying me. i never observed my parents like that. i never really study anyone, with certain exceptions, like a girl in the dorm dining room in college who took half an hour to eat a banana at lunch once.
mmm…banana twitch. actually an eye twitch is a sign of stress. it’s rather annoying, like my eye is a cell phone and someone set it to vibrate.
well the one time i saw someone take so long to eat a banana, it turned out that the girl was horribly anorexic.
i’m guessing it was a different girl.
Yeah, Mig, that eye twitch thing is less of an adaptive tic than an actual physical manifestation of stress tic. You need to develop some behavioral thing to take its place, like tapping your right big toe or something. I used to have horrible eye- and cheek-twitches, when I was a kid, before I shunted those into the need to count every effing thing I saw. Later I figured out that you can make it go away just like when your ears ring: pretend it’s your subconscious trying to tell you something, and ask it “What?! Be a little more clear, please.” That usually makes it disappear.
I was just thinking about you, Jessica. There is an envelope from you here in my office and I was thinking what nice handwriting you have.
I will try that with the twitches, and I might suggest to Gamma that she try it as well, although maybe not seeing there is a difference between the purely organic stuff like the eye and cheek twitch stuff and the odd nervous habit stuff, and I really want to avoid putting additional pressure on the kid. I will also try that with the ringing ears; usually when my ears ring I am asking other people “What? Could you speak up please?”