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Why Jeannie Can’t Tell Time (www.attachmenttraumanetwork.org/)

 
Wonderful piece of writing on the ATN blog. It's by Janyne McConnaughey, Ph.D. Here's an excerpt:

Staring at the analog clock in my therapist’s office, I wondered which hand was the big hand and struggled with my need not to go over my time.

“I can’t read the clock,” I said. It was awkward because I was 62, but I really wasn’t.

This awkward therapy moment is brought to you by my dissociative disorder. It was a watershed moment in understanding one possible reason for uneven learning in the classroom. I spent forty years as a teacher educator and felt the frustration of helping children who knew how to do something one day and not the next. To suddenly find myself unable to do something I had obviously been able to do for at least fifty years was astounding; but on that day, I was six-year-old Jeannie. Read more.

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Lisa: Those first few paragraphs drew me in. If you see anything you think should be shared, please do so or email me a link and I will. And that includes all of your great work!

Thanks!
Cissy

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