Posted by Ritch on April 20, 2002, at 16:49:13
In reply to ADD, Irlen Syndrome, and sensory sensitivity too? » Ritch, posted by IsoM on April 20, 2002, at 11:34:01
> Mitch, when you mentioned that you wanted to eliminate all the "noise", that's how I describe what I see (plus hear - I think of it as sensory overload). So I'm wondering if you fit Irlen syndrome too. I was tested for it by a certified tester & rated 'very high'. Perhaps you have it too. It's considered a real (not New Age) condition by the American govenment as they're funding money for more research into this condition.
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> http://www.readingandwriting.ab.ca/judypool/irlen.htm
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> The low contrast version on the above home page is SO much easier on my eyes. I didn't buy a bonafide pair of lenses (testing will indicate which colour works best for you) but still the sun glasses (not really sun glasses but those 'trendy' coloured nonprescription ones you see about) I bought are more soothing than regular sight.
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> Now, if there was only something that I could use to elminate all the external (& internal) background noises I hear that interfere with hearing & concentration.
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> I seriously think (from what I've read in all the science journals over many years) that the large & constant amount of DDT & other pesticides that I was exposed to in utero & through my growing years has contributed strongly to my ADD & sensory sensitivity. It seems to be something that runs in my family, but my sons & I seem far more affected than my parents & relatives. My sons are probably affected from the pesticides being passed on in the fatty content of my milk. I nursed them for a long time each.
Hi IsoM,Thanks for that link. I don't think that is my trouble though. I am beginning to think it isn't even ADHD really. I think it is a combo of bipolar *and* an auditory processing disorder with some dyslexia. Here are some links that I found quick (I haven't read all of it-there is just too much). The first link has to do with CAPD.
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:xSTmtUiMzwsC:journals.asha.org/1059-0089/v5n2/041.pdf+Central+Auditory+Processing+temporal+lobes&hl=en
http://nba19.med.uth.tmc.edu/faculty/faculty.htm
http://thalamus.wustl.edu/course/
I was surprised to find out that dyslexia is a phonemic decoding problem not necessarily a problem with flipped letters/numbers and such. Different meds affect my ability to understand what people are saying to a great degree. My attentional deficits are the most pronounced when it comes to listening to someone else talk and needing to follow along with what they are saying. I do have trouble with reading, too, but nothing like human speech. The worst case scenario would be someone telling me directions on how to get somewhere or how to do something that I have never done before. I am always asking questions over and over and have awful problems keeping all of it in order. Central auditory processing is done by the temporal lobes and that is where some of the weird phenomena I experience seems to exist. When I tried dexedrine back over a few weeks I noticed that when the medication was peaking I would smell something burning for a few moments here and there. I already have music playing in there off and on sometimes quite intrusively. Neurontin and Depakote quiet it down. Of course SSRI tends to intensify it. With Prozac I could read something that someone else had written (and if I knew the author) I could hear their voice in my head reading it as clear as day. (I could read "aloud" in my head in the voice of the writer if I knew that person well). I chalk it all up to just odd wiring-there seems to be a lot of "jumpers" that have been created to "work around" the problems (whatever they are). I can do fantastic at tasks I understand well, and I can listen to people I know well fairly OK. When someone I haven't heard speak before that is when I can get really lost-Hmmm.. maybe that has something to do with the social anxiety?? OF course, I do nothing but create more questions rather than answers.Mitch
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