Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues

white matter the subway of the brain. It connects the grey matter, which are the parts of the brain that do the processing—like that of sensory information. Different areas of the brain need to work together for us to do things like think, perceive, and learn, and the white matter helps with this. In typical brains, this movement of information fro

People with SPD may have ... 1. Sensory Modulation Disorder 2. Sensory Discrimination Disorder 3. Sensory-Based Motor Disorder

This is often called depersonalization in psychology circles—feeling disconnected from yourself and your surroundings, or even derealization, feeling like the world is dreamlike and distant.

A meltdown is anger and tears. A shutdown is dissociation and fear.

In SPD brains, white matter is in fact less well connected in some areas where we’d expect to see it, particularly in the back of the brain.

In people with SPD, the brain is less structurally sound when it comes to sensory processing.

There’s just less time to build a rich, complex history of traumatic childish torture and torment when a kid’s only had a few birthdays before her sensory issues are recognized. There’s also less time to establish her own negative thought patterns related to her differences and the way in which she is perceived by others. She hasn’t had decades to

Adults in the sensory community were called “picky,” “spoiled,” and “sensitive” as kids and were frequently misdiagnosed with a whole host of psychological disorders

The perception is completely unrelated to the sense organs, like the nose or the eyes, and related instead to the brain itself and how it interprets the sensory input it receives.