Hello,

My name is Lewis, I am 22 years old and I'm living in South Yorkshire but originally from South Africa. I cannot believe I have found this forum!!!

1. What brings you here?

Hopefully to meet other people like me, as I feel very alone with this. No doctors or therapist in the UK I have been to have ever even heard of SPD.

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 suffer from SPD.

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

I was diagnosed with quite an extreme case of SPD when I was about 3 years old when I was still living in South Africa. The specialist was convinced I would grow out of it when I got older. Although I have got better asI've grown older, I still feel it cripples me.

4. Is there any immediate help you need?

I would love to meet another person with SPD. I would also love to find a therapist in South Yorkshire that deals with SPD in adults.

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

I am extremely obsessive with planning. I have to plan everything, down to my routine for getting ready for work in the morning, all the way to how I am going to get a promotion at work or even weekend activities. I cannot stand anything being left unplanned or unorganised. I think this is a curse as well as a blessing but its helped me to achieve many things in my career especially at my young age of 22.


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

I love cars, I love working on them because I know I'll do it properly. If I leave a car with a mechanic I obsess about them doing a bad job and potentially making my car unsafe.


If there is anyone out there that has gone through this from a young age and is still dealing with this as an adult and has been lucky enough to have a diagnosis, please get in touch I'd really love to hear from you.

Or if you have kids and have questions about SPD I'll be happy to help where I can (I'm no specialist but I really can empathise with other people with this "condition".) I was an EXTREMELY difficult child.

I can still remember how extreme the sensations were as a child and the only way I knew how to express my feelings was to get extremely angry/aggressive or get extremely upset.

I had no idea why I felt the way I did about certain textures/sound/visuals/being touched/food and many other things that I didn't/still don't understand to this very day. I use to get frustrated why other people couldn't understand what I was feeling and it was all very confusing especially as a child.

So as stated, I'd love to hear from anyone dealing with SPD.

Best wishes,

Lewis