Posted by Minnie-Haha on February 3, 2005, at 17:32:17
In reply to heightened senses, posted by missamor on February 3, 2005, at 16:09:33
> i was reading this post and found it interesting. i too have very "sensitive senses" is how i have always described it. like everything is a little heightened. my little brother has asperger's syndrome, an atypical, high functioning form of austism. i notice many simulairities between him and myself. i have ocd and i think because of that gad. but i have both. heightened senses is what they say my brother has, mainly to do with noise and tactile things. and he hates the way things feel in his mouth, certain textures of foods. i have the same heightened senses as it relates to noise and tactile situations. i always cut tags out of clothes, sometimes even pockets or anything that is bothering me. my friends think i have a cool style, i let them think that. i dont tell them its because im mental! this just seemed relative to me.
My son is suspected of having mild Asperger's. He definitley has speech-language problems (pragmatics, or the social use of language) and sensory issues. I'll tell you, the last couple of years, reading up on autism-spectrum disorders, I often think, "Damn, that sounds like me." There's a fine line there. I think MY disordered sensory processing is closely related to my BP2 and OCD DXs. My son is also highly gifted, and that goes hand in hand with what's called "over-excitabilities" which is the same diff as sensory processing disorders and psychological "disorders" rolled together, seems to me.
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