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sensory overload

Sensory Processing Disorder Book Review: I’m Not Weird, I Have SPD by Chynna Laird

August 13, 2009

Talk about echoes of my childhood and my present with my Sensory Processing Disorder (a.k.a. Sensory Integrative Dysfunction).
In the book, I’m Not Weird, I have SPD, author Chynna Laird uses descriptive words like:  hurt, screamed, pain, and scared. Those are words that I use to this day as an adult with SPD.
Sensory overload still [...]

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Greener than my beer from the 360 degree noises

March 18, 2009

That’s how I felt last night at the neighborhood bar celebrating St. Patrick’s Day.
A cat will turn its ears toward a sound.  If there are too many sounds, the cat looks scared and will run away.  I’m like the cat when it comes to sound because it’s like my ears are turning toward each sound, [...]

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Posture Overload in Sensory Processing Disorder

March 16, 2009

By Dr. Paul Drew, author of Red Carpet Posture

Where posture could make a difference with SPD is that it’s one less overload of stimuli going to the central nervous system and the brain. If a person is standing, moving, or sitting with incorrect posture and not in the correct alignment, he or she may [...]

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