Nostalgia - 05/18/09 05:50 PM
My highly sensitive, very verbal kid gave a very detailed description of what the feeling of nostalgia was like for him and I am embarrassed to say I never paid any attention to the "algia" part of the word meaning pain until he said something about it.
In his definition he described the pain and how it was different from physical pain in some ways but similar in others and I wish I could have recorded it because I can't remember all of what he said, but it was another example of how sensitive he really is and how he experiences life a little differently that most people. Is this part of SPD or overexcitabilities or just part of being different? I keep telling him he could be a good writer if he could manage to get some of this on paper, but I can't get him to write.
He started the nostalgia discussion when we were in the car with one of his friends who had just asked to borrow one of his games. He told the friend that he beat this game a long time ago but kept it only because it brought back good memories and then I guess he felt he needed to explain the word nostalgia to his friend and what it felt like for him and how he would feel if this game ended up broken or lost, and that he didn't like to let other people borrow games for this reason, but he would let his friend borrow it if he would promise to take good care of it.
He doesn't like to get rid of anything that he associates with good memories so we have a lot of his old toys and things in our shed and he likes to go out and look at all of it once in a while. This is one of the things we have in common.
Anyone else like this?
In his definition he described the pain and how it was different from physical pain in some ways but similar in others and I wish I could have recorded it because I can't remember all of what he said, but it was another example of how sensitive he really is and how he experiences life a little differently that most people. Is this part of SPD or overexcitabilities or just part of being different? I keep telling him he could be a good writer if he could manage to get some of this on paper, but I can't get him to write.
He started the nostalgia discussion when we were in the car with one of his friends who had just asked to borrow one of his games. He told the friend that he beat this game a long time ago but kept it only because it brought back good memories and then I guess he felt he needed to explain the word nostalgia to his friend and what it felt like for him and how he would feel if this game ended up broken or lost, and that he didn't like to let other people borrow games for this reason, but he would let his friend borrow it if he would promise to take good care of it.
He doesn't like to get rid of anything that he associates with good memories so we have a lot of his old toys and things in our shed and he likes to go out and look at all of it once in a while. This is one of the things we have in common.
Anyone else like this?