People who don't understand -- Ugh!

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RE: People who don't understand -- Ugh!

(05-06-2011, 06:08 PM)LynnNBoys Wrote: Thanks, everyone! Just got so frustrated with hearing that it's my fault for his anxiety and that his picky eating is because he wants to push my buttons. I needed some place to go where others understand!

Hi,

If it is any help, I know it's not you or your son either. I didn't know I have this SPD thing until this year and I'm thity now. I hadn't a clue what it was until my psychologist told me I had it after getting me to do a questionaire thing of a few hundred questions.

It was only then I could look back and realise why I couldn't seem to understand myself growing up. Why everyone used to pick on me and tell me I was lazy, or being spiteful or nasty or attention seeking. I mean yes, kids do these kinds of things, but when people used to say those things to me it was never the right time. I couldn't help how I used to eat for instance, or the fact I couldn't dare eat mushroom soup because of the feel of the slimy mushrooms in my mouth. It used to make me want to vomit.

Same with certain lights, I went somewhere to go to the loo once and there was this purple light in there and it made me very ill and I run out of the toilet as fast as I could, same with the toilet flushing. I used to nearly breeak my neck to get away from the sound of it and people thought I was just being naughty and used to tell me off all the time.

I know for a fact how other people can be so judgemental and it does hurt, so, so much, but you and I know, so does everyone else here that it is real, that these things do cause problems for your son. Your son might not even understand it all, or be able to tell you whats wrong alot of the time, but I'm sure you've managed to talk with him and now he has some idea of how things are too, so he'll get there, and maybe one day he can explain to your Mam how things are/were for him.

I know it must hurt coming from your Mam too, she is supposed to care and understand things and be there no matter what, but Mams aren't there twenty four seven so it's kinda like her not knowing all the facts really in her mind no doubt.

I do hope you feel better soon though hon Smile