Hi!

I'm Audrey, and I've just joined. I've never been diagnosed with SPD, but my sister is a kindergarten teacher, and she has been dealing lately with a lot of children that do have it. And she decided that I also had it when I was growing up. Which of course got me interested, and looking at the list of adult symptoms, it seems to me that I definitely still have it now.

People are always telling me that I am overdramatic or extreme (for example, people think I am just overreacting when I have to leave the room because someone has started chewing blueberry gum, and I am afraid that if I stay in the room I will vomit) when for me I am just reacting as I see fit. At 28, I still get laughed at because I am always fidgeting or playing with something.

I find that, in order to cope, I overdramatize everything in my life, so at least I then seem balanced.

The list goes on. Anyhow, so I thought I'd join to see how other people cope and to try to figure out if this is something that truly does affect me.

I'm psyched to be here! :-)