Posted by dj on July 31, 2000, at 7:54:17
In reply to Re: I Rock Too,,What's that about?, posted by Regnad on July 31, 2000, at 3:05:15
> I've rocked as long as I can remember, at least since I was little. Like you, I can control it when I make an effort, but most of the time if I let my concentration slip I automatically start >rocking again.I don't rock but found your posts interesting. It reminded me of Oliver Sacks (author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", etc.) discussing folks with Tourettes disease, who had physical and verbal tics which they can control when focusing on them. In one of his books ("An Anthropologist on Mars", I think) he writes about a surgeon with Tourettes who can operate and fly a plane when focused though in the latter case he can be twitiching away in the cockpit but not the former.
Bill Gates is a noted rocker, which I think may be linked to Asperger's Syndrome which is a mild form of autism which we've discussed here a while back...
Sante!
dj
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