My Sensory system is very different, different in Seeing,Hearing, Tasting,Smelling, Sense of Touch.Sense of Motion.,Sense of body Movement, and sense of Thinking and feelings ,Emotions and Pain.In my body all Senses work together sometimes,.there is always blending of senses, It will be so confusing for my brain to get information from all senses at a time..My whole body triggers,Because of this high frequency in electric vibrations ,Senses become very active .My brain Waves are like ocean waves ,My mind becomes hampered, I even try to balance my mind but sometimes it will not be under my control..my Senses make me very distracting sometimes…I want to tell you about all my Senses and how I feel differently on processing it.
My Auditory System functions passively most of the time ,it means I listen very deeply without any responses to dealing with actions without giving attention..God made my Auditory system very sensitive.I can hear all sorts of sounds when a person talks..god has injected different sensory system which makes me to listen all surrounding sounds at a time..Some people talk very softly and some people talk very loudly from sounds of talks i feel the person using animation ìn mind.Hearing persons talks from feeling in intuition is god gift for me..Talks of people pains me sometime but taking it to casually I turns my mind to something positive ways.in my mind I keep only good emotions.,heal all bad emotions. And forgiveness is my nature .Your good emotions decide your character..Talks of people makes me Iron man..and they make me more Stronger ..
To balance my auditory system ,Neha(my mother) will show me more actions and gestures rather than talking and giving instructions..keep your talks less and more gestures..When you give instructions or call me when I’m inside, I will reply you through humming or sometime on coming near you showing through body language
..Don’t think autistic kids are deaf ,.they hear your talks very deeply .From hearing and to process hearing from sending information to brain and reading in mind and forming words and sentences and to keep sentence and words through talks is a very difficult task for Autism..It takes time in all this processing. So give time to think and respond.show some clue game play..it will make children think cognitively.
Some kids respond very well through picture talk.so use more picture talk..I am already putting imaginations in pictures so I talk through typing sentences..take turn taking activities, it develops communication. Shouting makes kids’ Auditory system disturbed, sounds make them irritable and ears start to hurt, so soft your voice to make them understand your language.
My Vision is very sensitive..Feels like bright light touching in different forms inside my eye. My eyes get tired with bright light. I sometimes get headaches because of bright lights..So I feel like sitting in a darkroom so that I can make my eyes calm. ..Having sensitive eye sight means having the power of seeing something very dramatically. All Characters start playing each of their roles..My vision makes me read the mind of people. It makes me see people showing signs of character..Bright lights sometimes make me feel strong vibrations having higher power of energy getting inside my body..I already manifested with strong ray’s in my eyes. When someone tells me to make eye contact, it will hurt my eyes. Different rays from the person emerge and my eyes will get overloaded. To take their instructions from looking at their eyes becomes very painful. Eye contact helps a person to understand what they are seeing, but in my case it’s very different, I can ponder in a person’s talking and discussion without seeing them..to me having insight is God’s gift.Having insight means knowing about a person and things very clearly in intuition..
Sometimes my behavior may look very funny to others . I sometimes look at my fingers moving it up and down because from doing something like that the brain functions on emotion. It control my emotions. It makes my mind to regulate my body..I sometimes looks at switchboard, I see dots on that, I join the shapes in mind..I hold spoon with small holes, .in that I feel stars and l feel stars in my hand..sometimes I see at tube lights and fans because to understand the frequency of lightning..and feel the motion of rotating fan.my mind will get disturbed by seeing dark colors on the wall ,light colors make my mind very peaceful…I have very sensitive eyes so I want you to read my condition and make me get used to light with low brightness..
Autistic kids may have fluctuations in Sense’s so when kids feel sensitive to light, calm them from getting rest to eyes ,from using eye cool mask, sometimes you can use thin cloth filled with fresh cucumber..yes if you put cucumber slice directly on eyes it makes wet feeling. if we use cucumber in thin cloth. We can feel only a cooling sense..Early morning sunlight is good for healthy eyesight..for sensitive eyes give different glasses to wear to balance light..Give rest to eyes by playing some soothing music.eyes get feeling relaxed by listening music. from listening music we get balance in all senses,…
My sense of touch always fluctuates ,sometimes I feel like touching different textures to make myself aware of my body..To me connecting to my body and mind is possible when I use the tactile method. Touch sense alerts my hand to connect with the brain. Sometimes I feel calm when I touch different textures, ì love to feel hot things. I love to have hot food..sometimes I love to feel the misty air , so I open the freezer door to feel it.my skin cells become active ,Touch of a mother on a kids head feels like all worries are wipe out..it feels very secure and long lasting joy forever. God has made the sense of touch in a very gentle manner. For mother and kids there is a great bonding since the baby is in mother’s womb it feel the sense of touch when mother touches her tummy child starts dancing ,until she realize the movements of child she keeps on touching her tummy. For me since from the day I was born and till now I feel lovely when my mother touches my head and kiss my forehead. Imagine if a baby feels calm when a mother just touches her tummy from outside ,then how calm a child becomes when you touch the child gently when it is in front of you.
Touch is the quickest and easy way of calming. Touch increases the levels of dopamine and it helps to release stress and anxiety. Touch controls our emotions..Pressing gently on all the joints of the body makes the child calm. Touch of different textures feels different feeling, when I touch soft textures pillow I feel relaxed and while sleeping also I hold soft pillow and one pillow I cover on my head and I use soft blanket while sleeping. It gives so much relief in sleeping and it gives me sound sleep. And hard and spiky textures makes me Alert so I feel like touching spiky balls and feel like walking on spiky door mats. And I sometimes take a comb and feel like rubbing on my palms .By doing that I feel more alert.
I do not like being hugged by someone because they may touch hardly and it irritates me, but I love to hug only my mother because I hug gently and I know how I’m hugging. Hugging someone and getting hugged by someone feels different. So if a child is very sensitive, do not make them to get irritable by your touch instead of you touching a child, make a child to hug you it feels comfortable..sometime I get so irritable by touching wet and sticky items ,but when I wipe it with napkin I feel better, when I was small it was a big issue, but now I can manage it by wiping hands often.
I love to smell the food items, it is connected with my mood, I feel very happy when I smell garlic fried, and I love the smell of SAMBHAR ,I love to smell different flavors like mango, vanilla and strawberries, mint..I love to smell room freshener ,I like sandalwood jasmine and lavender, whenever we are traveling outside the city by car ,I feel motion sickness but when I smell lemon I feel so much cool and fit..Neha always keep some lip balm with strawberry flavored and some nilgiri oil in her bag, whenever I feel uncomfortable she makes me to smell that, I feel better and it stable my mood..sometimes when we come around bad smells , we will get distracted.,we don’t know how to replace it with a good smell, or to cover our nose with hanky .We feel better when a good smell is replaced with a bad smell immediately.
I am a foodie, I love to have little spicy food and i taste every food with deep imaginations, sweet taste imagine in my mouth i relate it to my heart, and spicy and masala tastes I imagine I relate it to brain, heart and brain both are important for us to live, so we need to balance sweet and spicy in our diet, I feel the food in different form whatever the food is, homemade is the best, Sorry!! Neha you prepare food very yummy, I was about to say in generally, however the food is ,homemade is pure .mother’s Affection and love is filled in each bite we eat, sometimes food will have less spicy sometimes less or more salty ,but we have to adjust ,it can be altered, do not make fun of food, because your bad words may hurt someone’s emotions. However the food is ,it can be corrected but the words you speak cannot be taken back..taste of food is related with emotions which you show while preparing food, if your mood is good ,you can prepare a delicious food, if your mood is bad then there is chance of spoiling food. So prepare food with good mood..
I like crispy and spiced food, my jaw muscles relax when I eat hard food ,it gives a proprioceptive input ,muscles become more calm..I used to feel discomfort for having soft food..I hardly used to feel the soft textures in my mouth, whether to chew or to swallow was so confusing…now I like all textured food. because of oral massages..
I have problems with verbal communication, because I feel tongue movements and jaw movements coordinate very rarely with sounds..God made me Nonspeaking but it doesn’t mean I cannot communicate, .No speech means no communication failures, we can talk through gestures and through typing. I have a poor proprioception sense ,I am trying to know where I’m lacking, to me it’s hard to unite all movements together to form word through speech, got to know that these movements are essential for speech production, to me feeling something and putting thoughts through oral speech is very difficult but my hands get more information than my tongue..understanding is important rather than saying, body shows awareness in some directions but movements lack sometime..knowing the task ,taking the task into actions differs. we get the task but replying to it through hand moments is problematically in receiving signal from brain. body moments presume in feeling then in actions ,to me feelings are very high than actions,.body awareness happens when soul connects with body and it starts performing actions ,but my soul forget sometime to be stable with present, I sometime go in past or sometime I feel the future..god has made my life in such a way that I am giggling .God made me uncomfortable because I want to feel present more..My physical presence and mind connects when I do physical exercises. When Neha takes Joint compression every joint of body becomes alert ,when I do brain gym exercises ,when I do meditation it makes me aware of my body and mind..
My Vestibular system functions differently , I love to swing, I feel like I’m flying high in the sky, rockin with rhythm, I have a good balancing for height, vestibular activities made me no fear of balancing and heights..Swinging is the very good activity for spacial awareness, sometimes you feel fatigue for motion, vision becomes blurred but how to balance motion we have to control it with slow swinging sideways..rocking is a stimming behaviors it should not be stopped it gives a pleasure of calming, When brain is draining, it may look bad to do rocking in front of other people ,but it do not destruct others so please do not stop it, good you replace it with some good fidgeting toys ,yes I always like to do fidgeting when I’m not doing any activities, it helps me to self regulate, to do fidgeting means making my brain processing knowing things deeply it makes my thinking better. focus and attention span increase, fidgeting makes my body motion feel balanced, I balance the motion accordingly with my hand movements..vestibular system maintain balance of auditory processing, give some vestibular activities daily to balance ear muscles good.. from vestibular activities hearing motions and sounds recognition becomes active, some good vestibular activities are swinging and jumping on trampolines, ball bouncing, sliding, skipping, , animal walks, rocking on rocking chair, if a child is hypersensitive to vestibular system there auditory stimulation will get overloaded, their vision becomes blurred and sometimes fatigue take place.at that time we should balance it with swinging or rocking in slow motion along with some soothing music ,it helps both in auditory and vestibular functions,..
My feelings are very high and deep and I always hold my bad mood and keep it with me instead of showering on others through angriness and frustrations. I do not keep my emotions hidden I express it in front of neha and some matters we discuss and clear it, for me thinking and putting thoughts through writing becomes very easy when I make good balancing of emotions ,ie when we think of some task ,sometimes different bad thoughts comes in mind, so we have to distract it and focus on the task, I used to feel the deep pain when people used to talk about me and about my speech and oral communication, so I balance feelings with ignoring it, because talking is not my goal, my goal is to communicate with people in a great manner, and to express my thoughts with qualities on writing. I have a good sense of pain and hungriness my interoception feel the pain and I Express it very easily ,my sense tell me what to eat when to eat, how much to eat, having good food is always my habit, yes my brain tells it. but sometimes my heart desires to eat some unhealthy foods sometimes, yes sometime for a change it’s ok. but eating habits should be under control. My internal body parts indicate the healthy signal to my brain. for me during sleep I want the best soothing music to listen it makes my sleep better and I have good dreams..understanding our emotions having control over it is a very big task. but it’s through music good emotions comes and bad emotions are controlled. So to develop good senses of interoception one should have the hobby of listening to music .For some kids this sense will be very weak ,so by doing meditations and exercises one can develop a good sense of interoception and one can develop Mindfulness..
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