1. What brings you here?

Just realized that what I have is treatable. I'd been thinking I was a HSP, not realizing I have had mild SPD from birth. Great to learn how many resources there are for people with SPD! and they seem to help me!

2. What is your relations to someone with SPD? Do you have it? a child of yours? Do you treat SPD kids as a professional?

have it

3. Share a little of your journey if you'd like.

Always been sensitive, thought I'd just have to deal with it. My definition was that normal things that I can't escape in life were like torture.

Felt like I'd be going along, and every now and then people in dark suits would show up and abduct and torture me for a few minutes to weeks, when a sensory disaster happened. I couldn't feel safe, because sensory disasters could happen anytime as part of life. Felt like I was just marked to be tortured regularly.

Any number of normal occurrences (injuries, dental stuff, hair cuts, cutting my fingernails too short, sheets on bed being wrinkled) can be very traumatic. My boyfriend got angry at me for crying so much about stuff he thought was no big deal. He thought I was a big baby, even though I am handling a lot of other really difficult (non-sensory) challenges really well. (I am in treatment for Lyme disease.)

But great to learn that stuff like skin brushing and sensory diet can help. I'm already trying to make a sensory diet for myself and it makes me feel so much better -- and I haven't even seen an OT yet or gotten the right brushes in the mail (they are coming via priority mail!).

4. Is there any immediate help you need?

recommendations of books, OTs in north Texas,

Which sensory diet activities or products help you the most?

my issues are mostly with touch on my skin (scratchy stuff, clothes that cut off at weird places like 3/4 sleeves, tags, seams) and noises (lawn mowers, leaf blowers, bass music, loud sounds). I basically try to keep my body and environment feeling exactly the same all the time. I wear clothes that feel similar to one another, I always wear the same type of socks, my bed has to be just so, etc.

5. SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests?

Consciousness and reality. I read a lot of books. I write a funny and insightful blog. I am a resource person for people with Lyme, I hook people up with info.

6. What do you like to do in your spare time? Any hobbies or interests?

David Icke fan. trying to get through Lyme disease, it's pretty absorbing.
I like stuffed animals, I have a bunch of Snoopies and a cute lamb. I get the ones with good faces.