Just wondering if anyone who has it or has a kid who has it (or someone who just knows a lot about it) might have an idea. I’ve been experiencing many of the symptoms of it since I was really little. First of all, I am very sensitive to some of the senses, mostly light and touch. I am extremely sensitive to light and brightness, more so than most other people, it seems. I remember when I used to have gym class at school, I could never lay on the floor and do sit ups because the lights on the ceiling bothered my eyes so much. No one else ever seemed to have a problem but I was cringing and covering my eyes like an idiot while I tried to do the sit ups. I’m not able to wear certain clothes because of the way they feel on my skin, and I’ve been like that since I was little. I have an aversion to so many foods because of their textures. I’m not as sensitive to tastes as I am to textures, although I do often prefer more bland foods. I also often have trouble comprehending things that I read, even simpler things that are easier to understand. I seem to have very poor auditory processing. I constantly have to ask people to repeat what they said to me, not because I have hearing problems and didn’t hear them, but just because their words sounded meaningless (and I often hear what they say, but may blend two separate words that they said together, and then don’t understand because it makes no sense). I have an extremely poor auditory memory, especially short term. If someone gives me multi-step directions all at once, I’m totally lost, even if they are fairly simple.
Motor skills and simply just carrying out tasks has also been an area where I’ve always had issues. I remember in kindergarten, we got these little grades for a bunch of different things. I got check marks for all three grading periods, except for anything having to do with motor skill development, which I never got a check mark in at all. I apparently had no coordination when running, jumping, skipping, etc., did not have very good control in the use of tools such as crayons and scissors, and was not able to tie, zip, and button things. (I do remember having a lot of trouble learning to tie a shoe- they started teaching us in kindergarten, and my mom worked with me at home to try to help me, but I still struggled and didn’t learn to tie a shoe until about a year later, in 1st grade). I still have a bit of trouble with stuff like that today. I’m pretty clumsy and frequently bump into things and trip. I have trouble sometimes with simple tasks like locking and unlocking doors. I have a lot of trouble planning and carrying out movements. In any situation where I have to change my movements somehow, I have trouble figuring out what to do with my body. I have trouble reading directions for say, a hands-on-activity at school. Part of it is not comprehending the directions I’m reading, but usually I’m able to understand if I read it enough times. But still, I will have trouble taking that information from the directions and figuring out what to do. I had the most awful experience in my 7th grade home economics class when we had to sew tote bags. The teacher gave us all the instructions listen on a piece of paper. Even if I understood what they meant on paper, I could never seem to figure out what to do with my hands. And if I tried to do anything, I usually did completely the wrong thing and screwed it up, or I was clumsy and ended up breaking the needle on the sewing machine (that happened several times).
I’ve just always wondered why I’m like this! And then I found out about SPD and was like, "wow, that sounds a lot like me." So is it possible that I have this, or am I just over-analyzing myself? This has affected me a lot in social situations and in school (I manage to do well in school and usually get good grades, but these things often present problems for me- I just really fight to try to overcome them).
See a specialist to find out.
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