I learned about SPD because of my older son. He was diagnosed in 2008 when he was in 1st grade. He had been evaluated for autism and ADHD but those didn't exactly fit. It was when I made a connection between a book that I had edited (The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, rev. ed.) and the OT activities the therapist was doing with my son at school. I realized that the things in the book were the same things they were doing with my son for OT/motor breaks at school--and the therapies were working! So I started looking up Sensory Processing Disorder and found a checklist. I found myself answering Yes, Yes, Yes to everything on the list!

I'm 41 and it's just been in the last 9 months or so that I've been making the connection between myself and SPD. Some similarities between myself and my son (we're both very quiet, shy, and don't like attention on ourselves), as well as going back to that checklist and filling it out for myself. I had been diagnosed with depression and anxiety in 2005 after my second miscarriage, but I know I've been struggling with depression on and off since my later teen years. And who knows how much of that is actually sensory related. I feel much more comfortable in small groups of 2-3 people than I do in larger groups of people, even family. I get overwhelmed easily and that sometimes leads to panic attacks.

Welcome to the group!