Musicwolf7
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Joined: Jun 2012
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Hi!
I decided to go ahead and paste this to make it a bit easier. I'm not so good with introductions sometimes.
1. What brings you here?
I found the forum while searching for information on SPD, some information for me as well as a way to explain it to academic advisors. I thought about joining it then, but things got crazy with midterms then finals.
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?
I have SPD. I was diagnosed at 3. One of the first in Idaho to be.
3. Share a little of your journey if you'd like.
Well, it's kinda odd. I started with extreme hyper sensitivity to noise and touch, and some to light and smell as well as the poor motor functions. Fine motor skills are okay most of the time, unless I'm worn out. As I grew older I hated school and the noise and nobody understood. The teachers flat out refused to read my file and to even try to understand, so my parents decided to homeschool me at the beginning of fourth grade. The meltdowns stopped entirely. Later when I turned 18 I went and got my GED and enrolled in college, thinking I wanted to go into graphic arts. I ran into some problems with my first advisor and switched to English Publishing. That didn't work, but more for academic reasons, as I didn't want to turn into a journalist. I found something else instead that I grew up with like an old friend. Music. Unforunately our college does not offer a music major, only a minor. Fortunately I love anything in the Fine Arts, so I switched to a straight English major, and in 2 years I'm transfering to get the last of the classes I need for my BA in music, and then onto my masters. After that I hope to teach at the college level. Durring the first two semesters however it was almost like something coming out of remission or unhinged. I started to have some problems again. Not meltdowns, but I would get shaky, the lights would get bright, and durring group discussions, the only ones I could hear where my teachers. Thankfully they've been very understanding, and a few of them have even admitted they had it, like one of the teachers that let me drop her class because she was hypno and kept the noise up, and I was hyper. And in a single semester I've learned how to cope with being close to the band, and even onstage with the choir, with some help of course. This doesn't do much for ambulances, firetrucks, and commercial fireworks. I still hold my ears at those.  But it's a start.
4. Is there any immediate help you need?
Not at the moment. Both of my academic advisors where willing to read the paperwork I handed them. The dean of students understood it too. The disability center... Sort of. But that was okay. I learned how to explain in pretty quickly. I am wondering though, can a person shift back and forth from hyper to hypno? Like sometimes instead of flinching from to loud of a noise to wanting something louder? I have some hypno in touch to go along with the hyper. Like I can burn myself and not feel it, but touch me and you get the insane death glare?  That's one thing I'm not quite following or understanding as I get older. But I know burning the scalp is a bad thing.
5. SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests?
Fine arts: Music, drawing, sketching, architecture, literature, writing, languages... Comics, cartoons, films, Syfy.... 
6. What do you like to do in your spare time? Any hobbies or interests?
At the current moment I'm an alto in our choir, I play guitar and some piano, which I'm taking next semester, and I hope to pick up woodwinds. I also write, a lot. And draw as well as try and learn different languages. Current pursuits there include, but not limited to: German, Italian, and maybe French. I had a German uncle that spoke 5 languages. From the look of his face and the stories, he also had SPD. Like my dad and my grandmother, and my great grandmother.... Come to find out this has been going on for a long time. Apparently on both sides of the family. Go figure, right?  Anyway, thanks for having me here!
[color=#0000CD]I never spoke with God, nor visted in heaven; yet certain am I of the spot, as if the chart were given." -Emily Dickinson 
(This post was last modified: 06-22-2012, 10:53 AM by Dani.)
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