PWS: A Personal Experience Analysis

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My experience related some what to the experiences of PWS. I might not have felt a lot of frustration, but like PWS I was really nervous when I had to communicate with other individuals and was fearful of their response. My biggest discomfort was thinking they would react negatively and be rude through out the interaction. These feelings definitely got into my head and made me even more fearful to go up to an individual. As far as secondary behaviors, I did not intend to do any, but I notice every time I would do a block stutter my head would jerk forward. I found this really interesting since it would happen involuntarily every time. Because of this assignment I now have a better understanding of why most PWS develop a self-concept of being

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