Hello!

What brings you here?
I'm in need of information about SPD and found this forum to be promoted as a good place for it.

What is your relations to someone with SPD?
I have no official diagnosis of SPD, but I find it very possible that I may have some sort of SPD.

Share a little of your journey if you'd like.
I'm an adult official diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, impulse control disorder and encopresis. I find it possible that Asperger syndrome may account for some of the SPD like symptoms, and I also find that the impulse control disorder, with encopresis as a result, may be better described by SPD symptoms, in which I search for information about.

My clearest SPD-like symptom is my resistant to some given textures in food. If I eat food which contain bones or gristles, I automatically and uncontrollable puke. This make me unable to eat food like fish and chicken, and I often puke because of gristles in various meats. In addition to this I have many of the more common symptoms on the checklist.

Is there any immediate help you need?
I was examined for my encopretic and enuretic behavior by a psychologist and he did not figure out the mechanism behind it for sure, he concluded with a diagnosis of impulse control disorder because that was the diagnosis he found to describe it best based on the classification. It is for sure some psychological mechanism in it; it is not a result of constipation, and based on my own understanding of it I find it possible to be an SPD-issue, something which I want your views about.

The self-experienced mechanism behind my encopretic and enuretic behavior is the need for doing it and the need for diaper based on some sort of wordless stimulation need (In the same way as I need much tactile stimulation, stimulation by music, social stimulation etc.). It is for me something which I would independent of reading about SPD called for sensory seeking. This was taken into account by my psychologist, but which unfortunately did not match anything in the classification manual. OCD was considered by the psychologist, but because I did not do it because of anxiety but because of need for sensory stimulation, this disorder did not fit.

I am ashamed by the behavior and have strong difficulties accepting it. Of that reason I search for an answer to it, and if this behavior may be part of an SPD issue I'm happy to learn about it, and learn about possible ways to manage it.

SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests?
My interests are in autism spectrum disorders and music technology.

What do you like to do in your spare time? Any hobbies or interests?
Being with friends, reading science, playing computer games (rpg, strategy and simulation) and with lego, watching movies.