Bet you're looking at the title of this post and going HUH?! What the heck is THAT?! This is what my beloved son has. It's not been officially diagnosed, but between all the reading & research I've been doing, conversations with parents of children with this same whatever-you-want-to-label-it & a conversation with an expert, I'm pretty darn sure it's what my son & I are facing.
Basically it means he's tactile-sensitive. He freaks out if his socks are on wrong, will NOT waear jeans or overalls because they don't "feel right", much prefers fleecy fabrics to anything else, has a need to touch things more than other children his age, is in heaven in the fabric store, hates kids to be in "his space" when they're not actively playign together, needs lots of bear hugs but doesn't like lots of kisses, HATES haveing his hair brushed or washed, freaks out over his hands being dirty or sticky .....
I'd never heard of this until recently. I've always thought of my son as "sensitive" and a big of a "difficult" child. He's also VERY loving and adorable and knows how to use those to his advantage ;) EVERY caregiver has said the same thing about him - "He's adorable and so lovabel but he's also a pill!"
Having *finally* figured out there there's somethign behind this I have now got him on a waiting list for Occupational Therapy - who knows how long that wait could be!
Anyywas, I just felt the need to write a little about it so there you go, dear reader-who-stumbled-across-this-blog-randomly, a little lesson abotu a little-known "disorder"! :)
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