Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues

People with sensory issues usually don’t have issues with sensation, but they struggle with perception and responding appropriately to what the brain perceives.

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.

Just because the sensitivities are invisible doesn’t mean they don’t exist.)

When you feel as if your body is ineffective, it sometimes seems easier to just cancel dates and not pursue advances in employment.

Input to our joints and muscles via movement increases levels of serotonin within our bodies, a chemical made by the body to help regulate our mood. It also regulates other similar chemicals, like dopamine, the famous “reward” chemical—which is more related to unexpected rewards—so we’re not driven to seek non-stop pleasure. Ever noticed that you’r

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

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

It’s most important to remember that dysregulation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There’s always a cause, as subtle as it may be to the untrained eye. It could be the smallest extra shard of sensory input or even a nanosecond without sensory input. It could be an ongoing onslaught of sensory information or hours without engagement.

Sensory issues are life-long and come with different challenges at different stages of life. I believe that challenges depend on three important factors: 1. Neurology, or if and how the brain can rewire 2. Past history, or whether or not negative social and emotional patterns have been established 3. Phase of life and related environment, or the ex