Top 10 Issues of Sensory Processing Disorder - Aspergers Central

hi there this is andrew from asperger's central and in this video i'm going to cover quickly the top ten issues to sensory processing disorder now some people may wonder why sensory processing disorder happens and what it is and I'm going to cover that briefly at the start of this video now sensory processing you think about your senses your five senses you've got sight hearing touch taste and smell now those senses typically will go and deliver input to the brain in which the brain can transmit and respond to and react to so imagine a busy highway go flat-out fly over five hundred miles an hour now on a good day that's essentially what's happening from the input that your senses give you that goes straight to your brain typically you know in a nice even pattern but sometimes with sensory processing disorder what happens and it can be through various other reasons one of those causes of sensory processing disorder can be something as simple as a misalignment of the spine now what happens is those sensory data that comes in from those sensors going to your brain essentially doesn't have a very good day now that's the the input can either be coming in faster than it should or it can be getting mixed up and crashing with other inputs so to speak you need to use a crude way of sort of imagining it but imagine just for a moment that instead of the nice smooth Highway everything going in the right order everything's colliding and causing problems car pileups now if you think of a car pileup in a sensory sense that could be a form of overwhelm that you would see so the the first of the top ten issues of sensory processing disorder that I'm going to cover today is sound now sound is a big one because everywhere we go for most people who have normal hearing levels sound can be overwhelming at the bare you know barest minimums now you may find people who have SPD they cover their ears when there's loud sounds which could be vacuums or lawnmowers hair dryers blenders kitchen equipment and sometimes the sound can be so overwhelming that they may end up screaming out or crying out as a result of of the overloading pressure the second type of issue with sensory processing disorder naturally would then follow is light a sensitivity to light you'll find people who want to cover their eyes wear sunglasses all the time they might stick their head under blankets under pillows try to keep the blinds down they may even turn the house lights off in the room when you're in the room they'll turn the room lights off generally when a sensitivity of light exists you can also often have symptoms such as headaches or in some cases migraines and it can often be inspired by the the overloading or the overwhelm from the light now the third one is smell now this one often goes under the radar so to speak most people don't realize that some people can be overloaded and overwhelmed by smell alone when you go to a department store such as Meijer a little something like that and they have the perfume counter for me that can be too much they can be overwhelming the side effect of having an overload of smell is you just want to get out of there you want to get away from it it's so overpowering that it literally makes you want to to be sick now the flip side of this is a lack of smell there are people who can actually have a lack of smell were so for example there could be overwhelming smell in the room and they wouldn't even be aware of it to the same extent that everybody else would the fourth one is touch now this works again on a spectrum scale in that there's two ways that touch can come to bear come to be with sensory processing disorder either a dislike of been touched get away from me I can't handle it like my skin's crawling or you can't get enough touch you want to hug people you want to go up and touch them you will often see people who have a touch component of SPD going up and running their hands over things just for the feeling under the skin they may even do it on their pants and feel the texture of their pants or their their jeans or whatever they're wearing they could walk up to a person and start touching their hair and it could be quite off-putting to somebody who's not expecting it now the next one tastes obviously being a sense one of the stronger senses taste leads us to with it within the sensory processing to sort of view of things taste issues will lead to food limitations people can't eat certain foods the other option of this the other aspect of the taste element is either the taste doesn't taste normal to them or contestable hand when it's actually quite flavorful typically people who though who have SPD when it comes to taste they're very particular about what they will and won't eat they'll know straight away after tasting it yuck I never want to taste that again and it goes beyond just a kid going you know what I don't like Brussels sprouts it's it's not just a vegetable thing taste could be all sorts of things for example my son for him he doesn't like to eat meat because of the the taste of the meat next one is clothing now a lot of ass bees and and other people who are on the autism spectrum will have their own war stories when it comes to clothing number one thing on any type of clothing you will most likely hear about are tags the tags on the clothes they irritate the living hell out of people and they just you know the first thing you can do for an Aspie who is clothing sensitive so to speak and this does fall within touch and the next the next few that I'm going to be covering do fall within as subsets of what we've already covered but the first thing you could do cut those tags off absolutely hate them now the extreme of a clothing issue of sensory processing disorder is clothes and certain textures of clothing can feel like they're suffocating like they're just completely annoying or uncomfortable to wear now I'm not talking about having to to dress up in our face in your Sunday best so to speak I'm talking about for example some people might feel like they're wearing sand paper instead of denim and quite often comfortable clothing is the best option that have had their tags removed in this instance now the next element is temperature you'll see the person either too hot too cold or you know there's a huge overreaction to the heat or cold and they'll complain about it or that we know action so in other words they could be in a forty five-degree room and 45 degrees Celsius I've got to clarify that Celsius for all of you Fahrenheit --is in an extremely hot room where everybody else is sweating and they won't have a reaction to it or similarly they could be in a refrigerated room a very cold room and everybody else would be freezing and they're just there's no reaction so there's there's there's two aspects of this they either have little to no reaction or a massive overreaction and again that comes down to the input that's hitting their brain similar to the the temperature and the heat aspect is pain threshold now you have people who have little to no pain threshold there's no reaction to pain you know they might go on fall over as a child or fall over and cut their their leg or something and I have blood pouring down their leg and they won't even be aware of it or likewise you can have that over a reaction where you barely even you know touch their skin and they react like you've just chopped their head off the next one is coordination other clumsy do they have poor coordination do they misjudge objects do they miss calculate distance do they misinterpret shapes do they crash into things often what happens is this one coupled with the next one are two elements that people don't often attribute to sensory processing disorder but you think about it your brain is overloaded it's getting hammered by absolute traffic of input and it's doing its best to sort an input as best as it can so naturally we have issues coordinating well not everyone but some people have issues coordinating and poor coordination is one of those aspects of sensory processing disorder one of the outcomes now the next one is one that I don't think many people haven't given much thought to which is external movement too much external movement and what do I mean what is if you go to a shopping center you imagine them for a moment you're standing in the middle of your shopping center near you you're the one that you've been to at some stage and there's people running around everywhere there's so many different colors every single one of those people are making noise often yelling talking just so they can hear each other and there's so much going on that it's just an act saluté chaos mayhem of sensory overload now a parent could look at this in the same way as a classroom the classroom will have 20 or 30 children running around doing their thing making as much noise screaming yelling color you know smells you're a whole heap going on external movement when there's too much external movement it can cause overwhelm now the result of that is tiredness fatigue you're just feeling oh my god I don't have any more energy to do this and that's all because of the over stimulation from the sensory processing so that's the top 10 for this video now if you got to remember that this sensory processing disorder whilst it does relate to a lot of things for example you know you can't handle having your hair brushed or having haircuts or you've got your own little quirks there are things that you can do to improve your situation starting today now depending on what elements of sensory processing disorder are needed to be dealt with you can look at ways of working around that but each one of those areas of course are quite different in themselves so if you've got any questions at all I want you to simply visit our Facebook page at facebook.com forward slash Asperger's central or hit our website up at Asperger central comm and we'll be happy to answer any questions that you have now thanks a lot for watching this video and I'd like you to please make sure that you share this with any family or friends or somebody that you think may have sensory processing issues or have even a child that experiences sensory processing issues so that way they can get some understanding and a little bit more clarity so again this is Andrew from Asperger's central and I just want to say thanks a lot and have a great day

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Length: 10min 41sec (641 seconds)

Published: Tue May 05 2015