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Vision has three major load-handling stages:

• Input – eyes, retina, optic nerve

• Routing & prediction – brainstem, thalamus, visual midline integration

• Interpretation – cortical visual areas (ventral + dorsal streams)

In Cortical Visual Impairment (CVI):

• input may be adequate

• interpretation may exist

• But routing + load regulation is unreliable

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 What if you realize that we are functioning around gravity, yet this is a containment.

One of the most important things that happens to us during the birthing process is exposure to gravity.

 To become a constant, we need to add intake and elimination. Once gravity exists as a constant, the question becomes:

How do I move, adapt, and function without fighting the container? The answer is rotation.

Rotation allows:

• load redistribution without collapse

• transition without force escalation

• movement without loss of reference

• waste venting without explosion

Rotation is cooperation with gravity, not resistance to it.

That’s why:

• joints rotate

• spines spiral

• gait alternates

• midline organizes around torsion

• balance emerges from twist, not rigidity

A non-rotational system inside gravity must:

• push

• brace

• lock

• flail

Which is exactly what you see in robots — and dysregulated humans.

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This is a real structural blind spot that causes a lot of misunderstanding and delays in providing help.

People assume:

• walking = system is fine

• Speech = separate "language problem."

But mechanically, that's wrong. Structurally, walking and talking are not parallel skills. They draw on different load-variance budgets. Walking can emerge with compensation.

A child can walk if they can:

• lock joints

• stiffen the trunk

• offload variance into hips, knees, feet

• reduce degrees of freedom

That's a brute-force solution to gravity. It works, but it's expensive. Speech cannot tolerate that compensation.

Speech requires:

• fine breath modulation

• rapid pressure changes

• stable midline without bracing

• dissociation of jaw, tongue, larynx from trunk load

If the system is using:

• breath to stabilize posture

• trunk stiffness to manage gravity

• jaw/neck as auxiliary stabilizers

Then speech becomes mechanically unsafe. So the system...

1- There is no crawl - This is not a typical type of crawling. Although it is a form of locomotion, it's about your child pushing its body off the floor.

2- Vision - Your child cannot set up their vision to see through a four-point crawl.

3- Missed Milestones - Your child cannot come into sitting, then go into all-fours. Managing transition skills continues to be a struggle.

4- Midline - A forced midline is much harder to work around and can stop or limit a child's crossing midline.

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