HI,
I wondered if I could ask a really bonkers question that is confusing me?
My husband is a nice boring computer scientist and my Dad is a nice boring physicist and all my family are dull as ditchwater, in the nicest possible way.
However, my FIL was a professional musician with an artistic temperament (he was a controling dickhead who sometimes wouldn't talk to me for three days at a time when I was living in his house). My DS is kind of 50:50 boring computer scientist/artistic temperament.
When he types on the computer, he does this thing that my DFIL referred to as "Naice Wrists"
It's kind of like Carl David does at 0:35 in this video
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The thing is that DS often does this when he thinks he is right about something and I am wrong. He does the wrist thing to indicate that he is awesome and I am an idiot. I find it incredibly provoking and want to tell him to boil his head. However, I don't know how to do that sensibly, because it is hard to respond verbally to a mannerism.
This matters because I am home schooling him through a period of severe teen anxiety just now. The combination of severe anxiety and controlling mannerisms is quite fiddly to cope with.
I just wondered if anybody might have any ideas about how to cope with that?
I'm quite direct/blunt, and graceful people-handling is not at all my forte. I definitely don't know how to communicate gracefully with musicians who have naice wrists, and am a little desperate for advice.
Thanks!