Fargo Flood–my 15-yr-old Sandbagging
My son lives in Fargo with his dad, three blocks from the rising flood waters, but behind a flood wall. Max cares so much he’s been working every day at [continue reading…]
March 2009
The skin is in: Softress is sensory-friendly body oil
For people like me who had Sensory Processing Disorder, Softress is a must-have. My skin had always felt crackly even though it wasn’t that dry. I felt my skin rubbing [continue reading…]
If I could have drawn this when I didn’t talk
Today, my daughter, who does not have autism, gave this to me, her mother who has autism. I’m sending this post to my Mum because when I was a kid [continue reading…]
Greener than my beer from the 360 degree noises
That’s how I felt last night at the neighborhood bar celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. A cat will turn its ears toward a sound. If there are too many sounds, the [continue reading…]
Posture Overload in Sensory Processing Disorder
By Dr. Paul Drew, author of Red Carpet Posture Where posture could make a difference with SPD is that it’s one less overload of stimuli going to the central nervous [continue reading…]
I’m drunk on vestibular input
I feel like I’ve been drinking. I am tipsy. My brain is in a fog. My eyes are seeing funny. I have a headache like the morning after. All I [continue reading…]