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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 [...]

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Fixations, Embarrassment and my Autism

June 3, 2009

I love fixations, and I revel in them.  The world may say, “Do something useful,” “Talk,” or “We’re doing this now,” but it is deliriously heavenly to fixate. I fixated on a draping palm tree when I was in San Francisco with my mum last year.  Staring up into that tree was wondrous.  The randomness [...]

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Relax Anxiety at the Dentist with a Weighted Blanket

April 10, 2009

Pressure on the body from a weighted blanket can relieve anxiety at the dentist’s office. For years, many people have enjoyed the weight from the heavy vest worn while getting x-rays at the dentist’s office as commonly known from a multitude of subjective accounts. Now they can get that relaxing feeling by wearing a weighted [...]

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What is Sensory Processing Disorder/Sensory Integration Dysfunction?

March 5, 2009

Sensory Processing Disorder or Dysfunction, also known as, Sensory Integration Disorder is a neurological disorder involving smell, hearing, pain, body position, taste, visual, temperature, and the body’s position and movement.  In short, the brain receives all this stimuli but can’t make sense of it so it reacts normally. Linda C. Stephens, MS, OTR, in an [...]

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