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10:53pm July 28, 2014
Anonymous asked: I'm the anon from earlier asking about watching light and reading your visual stims, I have a number of those and others. I'm not diagnosed but I do have diagnosed sensory processing disorder and it's led me to photography. The way lights and shapes play off of each other. I love motion in photos and time lapse things. I never really thought of them as stim things but I guess they are. I just wanted to thank you, I've learned a lot from this blog.

Thanks.  <3

I’ve also been diagnosed with SPD, although it was called sensory integration dysfunction when I was diagnosed.  But of course when you’re autistic, that can be pretty much just them taking out certain aspects of autism and giving them a name.  When you’re not autistic, of course, it’s different.  My brother and I both got diagnoses of SID, him at a very young age, me at around age 17.  I’ve also been diagnosed with CAPD and Irlen syndrome, which basically amount to auditory processing problems and visual processing problems.  My visual processing problems are more severe than any of my other sensory processing problems, and auditory is second most severe.  I think my best senses are smell and kinesthetic.

I notice that online a lot of the autistic people’s most severe sensory processing issues are auditory rather than visual.  I don’t understand quite why that is.  I have auditory processing issues, but they pale in comparison to visual processing for me.  I know there’s other people out there with similar visual issues though.

But if you’re not autistic, you may be what we call a cousin, which is someone who can relate well to autistic people’s experiences due to a separate neurological condition.

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