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 Ive spent the week at a special school for kids with learning difficulties.....

 One kid has a fanatical hyperchondrism which propels his mood and outbursts - he once suffered an injury to his foot and is convinced it is about to happen all over again. Once he has heard your voice - he has you - hes sucked you in - and unless your will is string - you have to look at his foot. Its "red" - "Ill get me sock off" - "Rob says it was red". He is blind - and can only anticipate what red might be.  In a sensory mist he circulates in his own sub-world with second hand images and fears of a repeating past. Is there anything special about him ?

 Other children are called "sensory seekers" there body motion fixes into repeating harmonic motions - rocking - humming - calling. With their sensation of their own bodies restricted and blocked by their sensory deparavations - they struggle within their range of motion to fill their own body space back up with a epiphenomenon of experience. It is only the intervention of another - a strong physical gesture into their movements that smoothes these waves of sensation into perception of the wider world. Is there anything special about them ?