Hi! My four-year-old has a mild sensory processing disorder. I’m just curious—are there many of you out there with SPD kids who believe that you have sensory issues yourselves? Or once had them and later “grew out of them”? I certainly have some sensitivities that make me unhappy at times. Nothing that really wrecks my day (although poor lighting can almost do it), but I do feel the tension at times.
Re: For parents of kids with sensory issues
My son (5.5 YO) has Aspergers and SID. I think he comes by it honest. LOL
When I was a kid………
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THAT IS MY KID!
Your description of what bugs you is my son to a T. Too strange!!
So your kid is the same way? What do you do to cope? HELP!
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[quote=”Teena in SWGeorgia”]Your description of what bugs you is my son to a T. Too strange!!
So your kid is the same way? What do you do to cope? HELP![/quote]
Buy a LOT of Hayne’s No Tag tees and cut the tags out of the rest. LOL Basically I shop for his clothing very carefully: no nylon or polyester, nothing clingy or tight, only loose comfortable clothing and shoes, no weird buttons or snaps, lots of cotton and cotton knits.
I also run his things through the wash several times to get out all the sizing and extra dye and that way they’re nice and soft and don’t have any “weird smells.”
After a while, I honestly don’t even think about it. I can pretty much eyeball something and know right off the bat if it will work for him or not.
As for the food, well, he doesn’t share that issue. He’s a very good eater. :D
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[quote:941e1393c6=”mmm214”]Hi! My four-year-old has a mild sensory processing disorder. I’m just curious—are there many of you out there with SPD kids who believe that you have sensory issues yourselves? Or once had them and later “grew out of them”? I certainly have some sensitivities that make me unhappy at times. Nothing that really wrecks my day (although poor lighting can almost do it), but I do feel the tension at times.[/quote]
My son is 3 with SID. My mother-in-law swears he’s fine, just a three year who is too busy to speak. She says he’s just like my husband, except slightly more hyper. My husband has been really racking his brain lately to analyze his childhood. His memories are very broken. (For instance he can’t even tell me how old he was when he had hernia surgery!) But with what we can come up with, it seems that perhaps my husband had a milder version of SID than my son. My husband still cannot handle loud or crowded situations—people think of him as shy. He has some texture issues with food, but they’re relatively minor. (The funny thing is, my SID son has no food issues except that he can’t handle spicy foods including extreme mints. My daughter (normal) eats better with a healthy dose of black pepper on her food. And my 15 mo old baby, who is also normal, has the worst texture issues—he can’t eat mashed potatoes and many other things.) My husband also processes things VERY differently. I see a problem and I solve it. My husband in the meantime will be making a very round-a-bout diagnosis and solution. He gets upset if two people try to talk to him at the same time. In the past some of the issues he has I just attributed to his being a man and unable to as many things as women. But now dealing with my son’s SID, I see that these are adult versions of the same issues. And I find it encouraging. I love my husband and am able to adapt my life to his needs. Yet as a child he didn’t have the therapies and activities that my son now has. I like to think that it is proof my son can and will lead a normal life once we catch him up to where he should be and once we teach him how to self-regulate. Many of his “autistic” behaviours are diminishing already, and I think that he will catch up.
[i”]Hi! My four-year-old has a mild sensory processing disorder. I’m just curious—are there many of you out there with SPD kids who believe that you have sensory issues yourselves? Or once had them and later “grew out of them”? I certainly have some sensitivities that make me unhappy at times. Nothing that really wrecks my day (although poor lighting can almost do it), but I do feel the tension at times.[/i]
My son (5.5 YO) has Aspergers and SID. I think he comes by it honest. LOL
When I was a kid, I was really weird about food textures and flavors. There were hole lists of fabrics I wouldn’t wear, socks had to be [i]just so[/i] and shoes that were anything but big and roomy were absolutely intolerable. I’m much better about foods, but I finally became a vegetarian because I just couldn’t overcome some of my issues with meat and ended up not getting enough protein in my diet as a result of the issues. That exists to this day.
I also still can’t concentrate well if I am not comfortably attired. One weird zipper or funky hem will make me squirm and not be able to think about anything for the rest of the day. Very few items of my clothing still have tags in them and more than a few have chunks cut out of the seams (on the inside) because there was a lump or sticky thing that was bugging me and I just chopped it out. I also can’t concentrate if my feet aren’t comfortable. All I own are clogs, birkenstocks, uggs, hiking boots, sneakers and flip flops. :?