Posted by Dinah on December 6, 2006, at 13:46:21
Maybe I find everything depressing at the moment, but I find this book unbelievably depressing.
Some of the things he speaks of as being part of being human are the very things I struggle with. They're not at all innate in me. Social rhythm, synchronicity, conversational timing, postural mirroring. They are as far beyond me as clapping in time to rhythm, no matter how loud and strong the rhythm may sound, even to me.
It's something my mother isn't good at either, and I was wondering about that when I was reading about infants learning these skills from their mothers before they learn to speak. But on the other hand, a genetic deficit would also explain it for both of us. I hope my son took after my husband, who seems to do those things effortlessly.
They don't sound like something that can be learned. Am I doomed?
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