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A Child Exercising at the School Dinner Table

Aaron

When I was a child of 9 years old was burned badly on my arm.  At the hospital a nurse taught me to exercise with long arm movements to help the healing. She told me to practice on my own.  Another day I was at school. It was dinner time and a group of us were at the dinner table. Suddenly it entered my mind to practice the exercises. I started exercising at the dinner table. The other kids were totally shocked and started name calling.  Decades later I realised that maybe the dinner table was the wrong place to exercise. Is it that I did not consider context. 

can anyone relate to this. Does it have a name. Is it taking stuff literally?

How should we describe it. 

thank you

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  • I don't know if it has a name, but I did something similar. I was waiting for my friend who was using the school bathroom, and I was hungry, so I pulled out my sandwich for lunch and I started eating it. It was a sensible and normal thing to do, to eat when hungry I thought. But when my friend went to the sink, and she saw me eating a sandwich, she laughed and said "that's weird." She wouldn't tell me why it was weird at first, but I kept asking her, and then she finally said "well, it's just sort of weird to be eating food in a bathroom." And then I thought about it, and realized that I am sort of oblivious to things like that. 

    If people tell me to do something, like exercises, I learned to ask them for scenarios of when it would be appropriate to do them. Because I've realized how awkward things can turn out if I do them in the wrong places. 

  • in reply to Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

    Hi thanks for your reply.  Yes things can turn out awkward. Yes I was oblivious at the time.  I just thought oh! I will exercise now!  One pupil said I was having a fit and then they started calling me fitter! Oh well!

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