With Sensory Processing Disorder ("SPD") I continually deal with anxiety and fear, a fear that can sometimes be irrational, particularly around illness. That doesn’t mean I’m irrational – it just means my fears are.
Rational and Irrational Fears
Rational and irrational fears given you little warning, but it is important we're given as much time as we need to work through our fears. Anxiety caused by fears, will seep into our every day lives. It was important my parents recognised the importance of figuring out my triggers and why certain issues became triggers. Each child will have different triggers – but it is important they have coping strategies.
Autism and Sensory Processing Disorder
Not knowing I had Autism (Asperger's) as a child, meant I continued to struggle mentally and emotionally, and coupled with bad thoughts, my anxiety and fear was continual. Having that just knowing feel is soothing and reassuring, fear when not knowing at all. Not knowing increases the severity of a reaction. Children need to be ready to anticipate each issue as it presents. With Sensory Processing Disorder, it’s easy to get caught out. With SPD, new circumstances and changes increase my anxiety and that creates irrational fears, irrational fears – fears where I simply fail to cope.
