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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 10:24:49 EST
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- From: Eileen Prince <eprince@LYNX.DAC.NORTHEASTERN.EDU>
- Subject: Re: PCT and other disciplines
- In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from "William T. Powers" at Dec 26, 92 8:06 am
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- Dear Bill,
-
- Thanks for the quick comment and invitation. It feels good to have
- someone pay attention to what I say and/or ask.
-
- I will write briefly for now, as my (autistic) daughter Katy is home for
- the holidays and I both need to supervise and want to be with her.
- Also,
- I hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday season.
-
- I had two thoughts in mind when I wrote my comment:
- 1. In working with those who have minds that are closed to PCT
- and any theory other than the one they dogmatically follow, I have found
- it difficult to introduce new ideas. This goes for the ESL teachers I
- work with and supposedly supervise and others who "manage" within our
- program. It also goes for the educators who work with Katy and are of
- the B-Mod persuasion. However, with these latter I have found it useful
- to use their terminology as much as possible and praise them for the
- wonderful successes that have in fact taken place. As for getting more
- control FOR Katy, it's hard, but I think my deliberate attempts to make
- them think that I partially agree with their approach and at least
- understand it have given me sympathetic ears. There has been far less
- success with many of the ESL type.
-
- 2. In trying to operate from a PCT approach myself, I find
- again that the closed mind is the greatest "enemy." (Naturally, I can't
- comment on the degree to which my own mind is closed :-).) Let's say I
- choose to think of my current spouse or one of my daughters in a certain
- way, trying to avoid the stereotypes that I naturally grew up with.
- (And, believe me, those have changed anyhow!) The other person may have
- already neatly categorized me as wife, mother, etc. and found me to fall
- short of the definition. What to do? Say fine, this is what I am, take
- it or leave it. (Often my response, though not overtly.) Or to try to
- change their perceptieon in other ways, and then how? (It's probably a
- mistake to try to change someone's perceptions. I can probably describe
- what is going on better than affect it, except in myself. Then, just
- because I am perversely human, I don't choose to easily end
- relationships just because the other does not perceive me as I am.
- Though perhaps I eventually do/have. But with my children?
- Completely?)
-
- Happy Holidays again,
-
- Eileen
-