Growing Up with Sensory Issues Insider Tips from a Woman with Autism [Paperback]

No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be, they are going to have trouble with their sensory issues. Enter Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Aspie at Large! Co-author of the groundbreaking bookAsperger's and Girls, Jennifer's personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and SPD makes her perspective doubly insightful. Jennifer's straightforward and humorous delivery will keep caregivers turning the page for the next creative solution

Excerpt fromGrowing Up Sensoryby Jennifer McIlwee Myers
 
 
I Know This Much Is True
 
 
While I have done my best to lay out enough general information to get you up to speed on how SPD works, I haven’t covered everything.  It would take dozens of volumes to cover all of the individual ways that people with SPD – whether children or adults – experience life differently.
 
What I hope I’ve communicated is that when you’ve got a kid with SPD (or ADD, or LD, or autism, or Asperger’s), what you see is not necessarily what you get.  When you see your child acting with what looks an awful lot like willful disobedience, stubbornness, and simple spite, you may be missing what is actually going on.
 
Sure, all kids do things you don’t want them to do some of the time.  There are no perfect people who are born always wanting to do what they are supposed to do who never ever fail to follow instructions and perform tasks as they should.  Sometimes kids refuse to do stuff they can do.  But that’s not always the case.  In the case of kids with SPD, that’s often not the case at all.
 
It is normal and human to assume that outward behavior is a sign of the inner person.  We think that when a child is asked to do something difficult or unpleasant and says, “It’s too hard,” he might well just be trying to get out oflƒ.