beck7422- My daughter is also overwhelmed with lights. Sounds too distress her. Fireworks this year sent her into a screaming, crying, meltdown. Also, we got caught in a terrible thunderstorm with lots of lightening, thunder, hail (on top of our van), and high winds. I had to pull the van off the road and get in the back of it to hold her and try to calm her as she was screaming and crying so badly. After it was all over (in both cases), she balled her body up, rocked herself, and sucked her thumb. Honestly, I was very freaked out at this point myself with worry for her. Her pediatrician seems to think she will grow out of these issues, or actually he said "just learn to deal with them in better ways as she gets older". Right now, my biggest concern is how she feels when these episodes happen and people are around. She is only 8, but notices that people think she is "strange" because she acts like this. It makes me angry as well because people can be so mean sometimes, I just want to slap them and say "Stop staring at her, she is NOT a freak!"
Any insights on that?