The problem is a good thing to get into

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The problem.The problem of the defunct body. Of the wandering attention, the wandering body. The limbs that struggle to be still. The wavering arms and the convulsing spine. The problem. The problem of inattention, of distractiion and a widening series of articulations, half-met and half stacked to one side. The problem of enunciation that chews sounds like pebbles and sucks them into flavours that are agreeable or not. The touch that jolts away and realigns slightly to the left or right, running up alongside a movement and breaking off here and there in a surprise stuccato that works off the pattern that is there- the schedules and programs of a  school with its curriculum and statement recipes of one or two doses a day that is Government backed and so authenticated as correct remediation for this or that problem. Is this a cure or a way of dealing with somthing that cannot be dealt with in a standard classroom but needs more of a one to one approach?

None of this actually matters. The child is just there. And attends to surfaces of connection or not. These may describe patterns that carry themselves forward, reinstegate a move meant as a request or an attack or a therapy of sorts but never actually becoming any of these in the moment in which it occurs. And as it occurs it is changing, being invigorated into an angle, a tangent, a tilt that is a lever off from the main concern- with limited or gandiouse intentions, benefits and authenticity depending on how the case is argued.

The child can't be helped in that way. Because the child is already o.k.- can only be o.k according to a situation of adaptations not according to a bench-mark of norms but in and of themselves as a line drawing itself out of every single aggravation and/or softening- of all the depth readings- the moments of absorbtion and bounce through which action and reaction are melded before they become either of these. In Aikido, the attacker comes at you dead straight seeing you as a target in order to deal the blow. The aikido move is not a technique but an absorbtion and proliferation of this move into a wider conjoined moving where the blow and defense dance into a raising up, turning around an invisible point that is an axis with no extention and then refolding back on itself to create the lever and the downward plunge. Nothing in the original move could have notified this result- which the attacker would never have believed in had it not actually taken place. Yet  in terms of expansion, torsion, constraint, levity and gravity there is absolutely nothing that is contrary to the original move. It has simply been joined, re-ignited into a unity that is a larger pattern than the solitary command of abrupt confrontation. There is no mis-understanding of intent. There is just a lack of interest in focusing according to the limited conflict in which the movement first sets out its terms. In a sense it is the movement itself that has been freed- freed from a limiting and totalising regime in which "This means That" and must be responded to according to the dialogic anti-part of an equation that already maps out the events and the characters of violence and subjugation; of command and rebellion; of authority and individual repression.

But the body is teeming with possibilites on the verge of discovery that only exist in this enfoldment of practices where one directive, rather than being faced squarely and understood or received for what it is, is tagged like running alongside a moving train than leaning out and letting the the anti-gravity carry the body upwards. It is an effortless borrowing of volition to take a ride and use the pivotel point between any meeting in orderto use momentunm and sudden stoppage to create real interest. Then there is something really occuring right at the heart of the problem that is apt for the occasion.

Special needs children are profoundly skilled in these apt moments where collisions melt and become something else in the atmosphere and deeper feelings that these energies procur.