tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.comments2024-01-01T12:23:30.028-08:00Coming To My SensesRachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.comBlogger257125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-81632032294046252082017-04-24T08:44:07.447-07:002017-04-24T08:44:07.447-07:00Not to mention when she gets a bit older, all thos...Not to mention when she gets a bit older, all those multi-textured baby toys are probably going to be more fun for you than her. I think I loved my son's crinkly monkey and my daughter's bean-belly hedgehog more than they did.<br /><br />If you're hyposensitive about movement, the crawling, wiggling, and bouncing days are another thing to look forward to. I tend to be hypersensitive. When my nausea starts getting too much from it, I just put my babies in their play area to wallow, be tickled, or bat a ball around.Ashehttp://www.raven-wing.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-43999048205209927542017-04-15T19:37:58.140-07:002017-04-15T19:37:58.140-07:00Oh my... this literally brought tears to me. (Easy...Oh my... this literally brought tears to me. (Easy to do now as I'm pregnant.) I stumbled across your page looking for some answers. I have recently (as in about 2 years ago) come to the conclusion that I have SPD... very much the same fashion as you wrote about here. During my 2nd pregnancy issues I suffered from as a child came rearing their head again forcing me to ask myself "what is wrong with me". I thought i had outgrown those childhood "quirks". I'd like to get a formal diagnosis, but I'm not sure where to start. Also a bit afraid my family practitioner might think I'm "crazy". What might you suggest? Therapist? medical practitioner? Psychologist? Neurologist? How did you come about being diagnosed as an adult? Sorry for the long comment... I just have more questions than answers right now. MichelleLeighhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04118181278855060539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-91771104580342397022017-03-18T18:39:11.969-07:002017-03-18T18:39:11.969-07:00Congratulations!! I just found your blog through y...Congratulations!! I just found your blog through your SPD article on Body is not an Apology and I was excited to read more. What a fun surprise to find this news! Looking forward to back-reading :) <br /><br />PS I'm a postpartum doula and baby sleep coach in NYC so let me know if I can help you! You've already helped me :)Devonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02594009783919795305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-20081916662520677392017-02-02T07:15:27.857-08:002017-02-02T07:15:27.857-08:00I have SPD and this is one of my issues as well. I...I have SPD and this is one of my issues as well. I've had to work to keep anxiety from showing on my face as I wrack my brain to figure out who exactly the person that recognized and is talking to me is. It happens a lot because I'm a teacher and performer so a great many people have clapped eyes on me. The best (so far) coping mechanism I have is politely, temporarily disengaging then casually asking someone who the hell was just talking to me. <br />Not to sound callous but it's actually really encouraging to see that other people with SPD experience this.<br />If I had to guess why it happens for me is that the constant barrage of other stimulus/information short-circuits the processes involved in facial recognition which causes anxiety, which further complicates things, etc. Which also probably explains why I haven't properly stored the face in my memory banks in the first place.<br />Meeting in passing is really tough and people probably think I'm a jerk. At work or the gym, someone will say "hi" as we pass and by the time I have processed that someone has indeed spoken to me and before I can respond I have to figure out if I know them and how to respond if I do the moment is gone and I have to (as you mentioned) yell awkwardly after them.<br />Anyway I just found your page and this is the first post I've read. It's nice to see that I'm not alone in my 'weirdness'. Craig Mayhemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08604571493597723088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-27665055226503563762017-01-26T07:38:46.705-08:002017-01-26T07:38:46.705-08:00Thanks for sharing this fascinating info. I've...Thanks for sharing this fascinating info. I've just started to suspect I have SPD at age 44, but never considered that my notorious face-blindness could be related to it. I have been known to introduce myself to the same acquaintance five times...Jendihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12578010077099807839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-43521794886257273852017-01-25T17:48:15.936-08:002017-01-25T17:48:15.936-08:00Facial recognition woes can lead to some amusing s...Facial recognition woes can lead to some amusing stories. Not long after we were married (and had previously dated for a year), we went with my parents for a meal out. I nudged my mother to point out some cute guy who was walking through the door. Turns out, it was my husband I had seen barely five minutes ago and now had no clue who he was! I was too embarrassed to tell me husband for a few years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-11924214125008707002017-01-01T09:17:04.249-08:002017-01-01T09:17:04.249-08:00YES!!!! I'm more typical, but my SPD daughter...YES!!!! I'm more typical, but my SPD daughter often requires a couple of days after a sensory-intensive one. And if we have several intensive days in a row where she doesn't get that necessary down time, we can almost bank on her having a seizure. Thank you for explaining this! Forwarding now to everyone I know!Annihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107752242793690287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-62651676430184614482016-12-28T12:17:29.872-08:002016-12-28T12:17:29.872-08:00This comment has been hidden from the blog.Ysharroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02129266651782351991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-10477605038555440562016-10-22T09:41:22.415-07:002016-10-22T09:41:22.415-07:00Congrats on everything Rachel!
Congrats on everything Rachel!<br />ABRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10188098663735460761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-81308690093286184762016-10-04T13:24:50.824-07:002016-10-04T13:24:50.824-07:00I'm a special education teacher who got diagno...I'm a special education teacher who got diagnosed with anxiety and ocd prior to starting my job and now they are thinking SPD is a big problem for me as well. It seems that it's correlated to my ocd but people say your general doctor can't fully diagnose you. I'm nervous to go to an OT because of my job. I'm afraid I'll get fired if anyone at work finds out. I feel like I can't come out of the spd closet as you say but when I took a test for it I checked out on almost all of it. Its something I've been struggling with my whole life and just now have a name for. Any tips on what to do at this point? I'm scared and confused.Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-5681881700840351062016-10-04T13:09:36.227-07:002016-10-04T13:09:36.227-07:00Oh thank you for this post. My bf loves Best Buy a...Oh thank you for this post. My bf loves Best Buy and I think it's Satan's store of choice. I went once to be a good girlfriend and I wound up running all over the place and screaming and ramming into expensive items. I eventually found noise cancelling headphones and was about to put them on until I realized my ocd wouldn't let me put headphones that other people had on especially with a new piercing. <br />Needless to say after he had to pull my slumped crying body off of the display and practically hold me up to get me out of the store we are not going back for quite awhile. Elizabethnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-74996248643703449922016-09-06T14:40:09.375-07:002016-09-06T14:40:09.375-07:00MNN.com quoted you so I came to visit your blog wh...MNN.com quoted you so I came to visit your blog while on a break escaping from the details of moving my family, my life back to the USA after 20 years in Tel Aviv. Midnight plus here and I realize that one of the reasons I only get started working at night is because it is QUIET and dark, I can FOCUS. We've chosen now to move to a place that is quiet all the time and I really hope I'll be sensing a difference. Good luck with your move, too! Thanks for sharing. I loved your post, too, about making peace between your mind and your body.musinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11350002006032891630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-48436298981481432352016-07-24T05:47:37.715-07:002016-07-24T05:47:37.715-07:00Well said, Rachel! Challenges certainly abound eve...Well said, Rachel! Challenges certainly abound everywhere when moving your life and your sensory environment to a new location. It's a brave new world out there! Go out and conquer it!Dadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18143140526406543629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-48000893232119539182016-06-23T07:26:40.517-07:002016-06-23T07:26:40.517-07:00Hi. I also got a degree in Psych; but specialized ...Hi. I also got a degree in Psych; but specialized in movement, sound, animal therapies at the New School in NYC. I am also an orchid. I think we should talk. I kept dancing, moving, or hanging upside down from bars/ swing sets/ anything #lol as a child; but I did understand why. Later, dance/ movement therapy research and more gave me a further language to explain and write, what occurs. I would dance/ move to face, clear, ground, recreate, regulate, toxic and overwhelming energy dynamics. Dolphins and other mammals, self and intra paplate each other in innate osteopathic cranial sacral. I respond very well to Osteopathic Cranial sacral, IF the rare practioner is good at it. All, have noticed that my nervous system SHIFTS like a child, vs the typical, adult rigidity. That is, sensitive types have note sensitive and fluid nervous system organs; the underlying and first organs of the mammalbody. But, even though, more fluid, the ns will collapse, lockdown, and more with excess toxic or gross stimuli. The more professional, self, or parent, does osteocs techniques ( esp still point induction), the more a sensitive is able to cope and realign the cranial and sacral bones that literally, SHIFT out of alignment and TORQUE from overwhelming sensory energies. I'll also go into relapelses of seizures, severe Bp drops ( orthostatic), abdominal pain severe, nausea, vomit, sweats. I could be shopping and enjoying, and suddenly it hits me and I'll collapse. Told, my eyes dilate, also. At hospitals, its dangerous for IF they aggravate in any mode, I can critically cardiac and respiratory crash. I bring this up, for TOO MANY nervous system sensitive are losing their life in medical, and needs to be brought into the conversations and lobbying. I've also been working with trauma animals for over 30 years, and it is the same with them; hence why too many, critically crash and die, even for basic spay and neuter. Aside, from medical, needing to not be adverse to sensitive; and be careful and prepared when using medicines to anesthesias; there ARE emergency techniques that DO work and can SAVE lives. Aside from critical cardiac and respiratory teams and intense Bp/ cardiac/ resp monitoring; severe pain is am isdue that drops the Bp, and various Osteo cs emergency techniques can reboot and stabilize the nervous system in both humans and animals. I cannot stress, how many animals that I have saved in vet, shelter, private work, utilizing the same techniques, needed on myself. Also, on a hospital setting, it was proved, multiple times that my blood pressure DOES drop from severe pain; as too many hospotals , rigidly think that Bp only rises from pain and that it is too dangerous to give pain meds if Bp low. And it was proven multiple times that my Bp DOES go up, and QUICKLY if pain addressed, esp IF the pain med is enough and given quickly by iv. Yet, I've only had to critically crash, unnecessarily, with these estupodos, over 60 times in life, and have grown a fear of hospitals, due to this. It also takes weeks to recover, its very painful on the nervous system, and then the immune breaks down and infections often occur; usually lung, pneumonia or some rare blood/ septic one. I cannot stress of how TOO MANY people and animals, and children are unnecessarily dying in medical settings, due to such backward ignoring of the nervous system as an organ, and sensitive nervous system types. Being sensitive is both a gift and a curse, and a dangerous curse, esp in medical. Would love to talk more and bridge our works, research and advocacy. I also think that an increased amount of children are being born as orchids, for savage, destroy drive prototypes are increasing and violence and destruction as a norm is destroying life and the ecology. Destroy drive vs life drive prototypes...Also, Osteo cs techniques,<br /><br /> So, hope to join minds..<br />Bye!!counterpointhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09756208959662654198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-27006829521051644702016-06-14T07:54:47.515-07:002016-06-14T07:54:47.515-07:00I know! It's my brain having a conversation an...I know! It's my brain having a conversation and I'm the mediator...and eventually the judge...for as the judge I decide what I will do or how I will react. ...or actually maybe more precise will control more than react... not say,for example what I really feel...exposed,to only myself, for fear of people understanding, which in my 62 years they rarely do. See they are normal... They are not rushed or overcome from their senses, so they dont understand the physical senses be so extreeme, and confuse it with emotional senses.When to me they are so obviously different. cleza2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02464195198317105281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-62560631977013262072016-05-04T14:03:02.878-07:002016-05-04T14:03:02.878-07:00I was diagnosed with SPD and ADD around the time I...I was diagnosed with SPD and ADD around the time I started first grade. I remember having OT during elementary school, spending time with the therapist during the school day, and one day a week going to an occupational therapist outside of school. My issues are loud noises, and I don't have full feeling in my fingers, so I'm hyper sensitive in regards to everything else. (Diagnosed around 1992)Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08779103660778033594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-35682464291673006132016-03-16T10:21:03.806-07:002016-03-16T10:21:03.806-07:00Awesome! I've only taken mine on car trips, bu...Awesome! I've only taken mine on car trips, but may consider taking it as luggage next plane trip :) Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-13754170398249533992016-03-14T12:07:51.401-07:002016-03-14T12:07:51.401-07:00Last year I went to Seattle and made sure that my ...Last year I went to Seattle and made sure that my suitcase didn't go over weight with my weighted blanket in it. The maid was great and made the bed each day with my weighted blanket on top of the sheet but under the two layers I pulled off the bed each night. It was amazing to travel with it and I'll be bringing it on more travels. Ameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05251183515325373718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-72923453865441569822016-03-11T11:48:49.814-08:002016-03-11T11:48:49.814-08:00Such a great idea! Such a great idea! Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-89901864274797398372016-03-11T10:26:13.796-08:002016-03-11T10:26:13.796-08:00I think you should be able to rent weighted blanke...I think you should be able to rent weighted blankets much like wheelchairs and the like when you travel to someplace by plane.<br /><br />I like camping, but tent sleeping is a challenge that usually involves sleeping with a backpack across my legs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-74946895980223152102016-02-20T15:29:07.521-08:002016-02-20T15:29:07.521-08:00Awesome, hope you got it! :)Awesome, hope you got it! :)Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-43085486021060957842016-02-17T21:58:50.162-08:002016-02-17T21:58:50.162-08:00I'm sure I will! Looks like it'll be here ...I'm sure I will! Looks like it'll be here tomorrow:) Huzzah!Sara Wilson Etiennehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464404439217232926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-78267078802572543802016-02-16T14:50:44.910-08:002016-02-16T14:50:44.910-08:00Hi Sara, thanks for this truly wonderful note! I&#...Hi Sara, thanks for this truly wonderful note! I'm happy to know that my blog's been so helpful for you :) I really hope you like the book . . . you'll have to let me know. Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-42959145174224356942016-02-15T19:34:35.212-08:002016-02-15T19:34:35.212-08:00I just ordered your book! I'm also a writer an...I just ordered your book! I'm also a writer and a late-diagnosis SPDer. Over the past few months, I've just started to make sense of my experiences and look for support for my issues -- and your blog has been so VERY helpful. It's given me guidance, solace, and more than anything, is so comforting to see your transition from diagnosis to now. Now I'm so looking forward to reading your book:) Thank you for all you've done for all of us with SPD!Sara Wilson Etiennehttp://www.sarawilsonetienne.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3421099117611643039.post-41221281060720855872016-01-12T10:47:47.067-08:002016-01-12T10:47:47.067-08:00Thanks Ann! The book will explain sensory issues i...Thanks Ann! The book will explain sensory issues in even more depth, so I hope you read and enjoy all of it :)Rachel S. Schneider, M.A., MHChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10550842365173231153noreply@blogger.com