Saturday, March 16, 2013

The "decreased access to language" Duffy mentions in terms of coping with trauma is the most interesting part of the chapter. In regards to any research I might do it could be interesting to examine the validity of this, although, through my own experience I find it to be true. In going through my interview I notice I used words like "brutal" and "painful" in regards to learning how to write and learning grammar. In some cases, like when diagramming sentences and being forced to go to the board when I didn't know the answer, the experiences seem to have left an impression. It might be interesting to look at my language, my word choice, how I told the story as compared to other stories to determine if I had less language for something I considered to be somewhat traumatic as opposed to something I didn't. In reading the first Chandler chapter, and understanding that our more important stories, or the ones we've told over and over are presented in chronological order, like an actual story, it would be interesting to go back to the story about diagramming sentences to see if that's how I told it, or did I lack the language to accurately portray what happened. It would be interesting to look at the details I decided to keep in and leave out and try to figure out why I made those decisions and what that says about me. I notice, overall, my language in my interview is more negative than I realized while giving the interview. I repeatedly told stories about being in trouble and not doing well in school for the first (at least) 50 minutes of the interview. My voice and tone change when talking about things I love to read and write.

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