Sensory processing disorder causes difficulties with balance, body awareness, and processing of information from your senses. These effects can make daily tasks and social interactions challenging.
Sensory processing disorder (SPD) is a neurological disorder in which your brain has trouble receiving and responding to information from your senses.
It can affect any of your senses: vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, balance, awareness of body position (proprioception), and internal body sensations (interoception).
SPD affects up to 20% of the world’s population and commonly occurs in people who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), or obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
Because SPD can affect multiple senses in various ways and with varying intensities, you might not experience it in exactly the same way as someone else. As a result of this variability, SPD can be challenging to diagnose and understand.
Sensory processing (also called sensory integration) is your brain’s ability to recognize and respond to the stimuli it receives. If your brain cannot process the type or rate of stimuli it’s receiving, you might experience emotional and physical distress. Sometimes, this can result in sensory overload.
If you regularly experience sensory overload or other sensory processing issues, you may have SPD. In adults, SPD can show up in any of the following ways:
These symptoms exist on a spectrum and can range from mild annoyance to physical pain. And other physical symptoms may result from these sensitivities. For example, high sensitivity to some fabric types may cause excessive sweating or a stress rash.
SPD is complex and variable. It has multiple subtypes, and many people have overlapping symptoms that don’t fit neatly into a single subtype.
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