It’s most important to remember that dysregulation doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There’s always a cause, as subtle as it may be to the untrained eye. It could be the smallest extra shard of sensory input or even a nanosecond without sensory input. It could be an ongoing onslaught of sensory information or hours without engagement.

Unable to feel the full extent of pain, it could take more force—more burning, more sharpness, more ache—for them to register that they have a problem.

Hungry? Cold? Sleepy? Have a racing heart? Need to use the bathroom? You know how your body is feeling thanks to our eighth sense, interoception. This sense is key to our day-to-day functioning as a person living within a body. It helps us identify the state of our organs and what needs to be done to maintain homeostasis, or a balanced state.

Research shows that 80-85% of our learning, perception, and cognition activities come to us through our vision.

There’s just less time to build a rich, complex history of traumatic childish torture and torment when a kid’s only had a few birthdays before her sensory issues are recognized. There’s also less time to establish her own negative thought patterns related to her differences and the way in which she is perceived by others. She hasn’t had decades to

It is an especially frightening experience to feel present in one moment and then trapped underneath a barrage of confusion in the next moment, somehow still a being in a body, but negated enough to feel like the body is a fortress and the being is a prisoner.

They found that, while typical brains without SPD, often called neurotypical by people in the sensory field, habituate to a noise or stimuli of some kind, meaning that they stop paying attention to it shortly after it starts, people with SPD never really do. It’s as if the sensory input is new each time it occurs.

While receptor cells in our taste buds perform the physical act of sensing taste, it is once again the brain that assigns meaning to taste, thanks to three specialized taste nerves that send messages to the brain for translation.

People with Sensory Modulation Disorder have trouble modulating or regulating sensory information.