(06-07-2010, 02:59 AM)beck7422 Wrote: 5. SPD doesn't run your life! What are you or your child's gifts? Interests?

SPD does run my life. Everything I do I have to keep SPD and my other medical conditions under consideration.

People saying that make the hair on my back stand up straight. People are so much more then just a person with X, in your case SPD. you say it yourself.

(06-07-2010, 02:59 AM)beck7422 Wrote: That said, I am a Gamer. I play and compete in all sorts of games. One thing I like about board games, is they aren't often visually disturbing and in a competitive game the chatter isn't meaningless.

I won't deny that SPD can make a lot of stuff hard. And that you have to conciser it in a lot of things you do. But you are still you and a part of that may be that you have SPD but you are more then that. The fact that you found ways to deal with it only increases that. I admit, I take earplugs, sunglasses and my caps with me nearly everywhere and use them extensively but I don't let it be all that I am. That includes that I at times put myself in places where I know it'll be hard for me.

The only time it really does rule your life is if you let it. I really hope for you can make it so that it doesn't. It improves your quality of life by 10 times at least.