The amazing thing about neurodivergency is that no one person has the same profile.
There are very typically sensory seeking, or sensory avoiding individuals, and then there are the anomalies that have some of one and a dozen of the other or two sensory seeking activities and three hundred avoiding ones. It really makes for a long study, especially as they grow and mature and learn to cope with certain bad sensory experiences and excel in the good ones.
C does something that I never thought I’d ever see him do.
He LOVES playing in the mud!
I don’t mean just running through it, he gets all in there, on his back, rolling around, really squishing the mud all over himself. Happy as a well, pig in mud.
When he was a baby, and we’d give him a “messy” food, if he got it on his hands, he’d stop eating immediatley and hold up his hands and wave them around for us to wipe them off before he continued eating.
As he got older he became the most meticulous eater every, never messing crumb or even having ice cream all over his face. His brother on the other hand is completely the opposite. S is like my wet wipe boy. The sole reason I have wipes in my car to this day (he’s now almost 6) is because S cannot seem to keep anything from spilling all over his face, shirt, hands including the seat he’s sitting in.
So now my sensory boy, as he grows older is learning to cope with loud noises, getting his hands dirty and not being afraid of lightning.
What type of sensory conundrums are you facing with your kiddo? C hates denims, elastics, tight clothes, scratchy clothes, loud noises, washing his hair and clipping his nails.
Xx Kim