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babyspacebatclone · 10 months
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Consumer Review for Flare Calmer® Pro ear inserts.
OMG these actually do what they promise!!!
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The ear inserts are hollow, meaning you still hear all the noise around you, which I admit is a tiny problem at the moment because my hearing sensitivity is currently high (being the end of the week, most of this was typed up at work during nap time) and so I am hearing the volume amplified.
But the stated purpose? Even out the highest pitch frequencies, which contribute most towards me going into an Autistic Meltdown?
After wearing them for a few weeks, I can finally definitively say yes, the experience supports the science.
At first, I wasn’t sure. The kind of pitches I respond worst to aren’t exactly common, or at the very least I’m not always going to encounter them.
Well, that’s what I was telling myself.
I have three different factors to noise that contribute to triggering my sensitivity/anxiety:
Noise Volume
Sound Frequency - higher is more painful
Oscillation in Frequencies - think how violins are played.
If all three max out, the result is a 12 out of 10 in my brain for agony and stress accumulation.
I should also mention I, naturally, work at a daycare center.
With crying babies and tantruming preschoolers.
Smart, huh? 🤪
Anyway…
I can tell when I’m specifically hit by a noise not just by the pain, but my response: first I close my eyes, a repressed wince; then the unrepressed winces; then slamming my hands over my ears, at which point I’m going to Meltdown it’s just a question of how quickly I can leave to make it a small one.
Yesterday, one specific child just had her own metldown after waking up from nap.
“Meltdown” in that she was in a spiral of “I’m mad so I’m crying, I’m crying because I’m mad,” it was 80% a tantrum where she was resisting all attempts at us calming her down explicitly because we weren’t going to “listen” to her (that is, let her play with toys she’d already refused while we were trying to get ready for snack, the same routine we do every day).
Anyway, it was 20 minutes of her crying and pouting at us.
And I know this girl, and how bad her tantrums hurt my ears.
It was mostly 8 out of 10, peaking at 9 out of 10, and that was all volume.
No wincing from me. None of that warble along the high frequencies that kills me.
And the day before this, I was definitely getting those while eating out between the “communicate with the waiter” and “put in my Flare Earshades and zone out.”
I’m not going to say they will work for everyone, and I think that’s why they have a pretty average review rating:
For some people, they do nothing, because the frequencies affected by the inserts aren’t ones that bother them.
And for other people - fortunately myself included! - they only protect from one specific thing.
But that very specific thing is a huge Meltdown and anxiety trigger!!!
(Comfort wise: I always feel the Pros in my ears, which have a solid aluminum core inside very well shaped silicon. But it’s literally just “feel” - there’s no pressure like from most noise-managing plugs. My set fit me perfectly, but there are limited sizes so that’s going to be far from universal. I can wear them all the time, but I also have some mild relief touch-wise to take them out.)
Oh, last point.
I’ve been using the Flare Earshade Pros less, but so far they’ve been very good. Definitely less ear pressure than my otherwise favorite foam earplugs, which has become a big problem for me. Decent noise blocking, maybe a bit less than my foam earplugs but I jam those in deep (which is probably why they hurt so much, lol). The comfort to noise reduction ratio is definitely in the Earshades favor.
And they’re so small, because they’re pre-shaped memory foam. I carry earplugs at all times in an Altoids Mini tin with some migraine meds, and instead of playing Tetris with everything I can just drop them in and be happy.
Definitely a recommendation, if you’re cruising the Flare Audio site already!!!
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flourishinglives · 1 month
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Sensory Integration Occupational Therapy, Flourishing Lives
Our therapists must learn entirely new methods and ways of implementing therapy:
All Flourishing Lives therapists have completed the theory portion of SIPT or CLASI.
Receive 1:1 training for 6 weeks from an ASI Certified Therapist with over 300 hours of direct sensory integration treatment hours.
Have extensive training in other treatment modalities.
Most have overcome sensory issues themselves so they understand where you and your child are coming from very personally.
Ayres Sensory Integration is a unique form of OT. Instead of the traditional approach where the therapist follows a protocol based on the parent's complaint, we do a detailed evaluation to assess your child, then we look at all the areas that need to be developed and we create a treatment plan that includes all of these aspects.
However, the biggest difference can be seen during the therapy session where the CHILD is encouraged to choose the treatment activities by allowing them the freedom to move through our facilities as they see fit. Our therapists have to adapt the activities that your child chooses to meet the goals of your treatment plan. This is a highly unique and challenging skill. Our therapists have to think outside the box and assimilate all kinds of information in the moment to meet the needs of your child. In an ideal therapy session, your child will have little or no idea that they are actually doing anything other than having fun with the therapist.
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Sensory Processing Disorder
Discover effective support for Sensory Processing Disorder at WRITESTEPS. Our dedicated team offers personalized strategies and innovative techniques to help individuals and families navigate challenges. From sensory integration to enhancing daily functioning, we provide valuable insights and tools. Trust WRITESTEPS for exceptional empowerment in managing Sensory Processing Disorder, and experience positive transformation and progress.
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lovely-anathema · 8 months
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it's too loud there's too much going on i can't do this
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speechandotplano · 1 year
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Sensory Integration Disorder
There are some great tools for isolating areas for sensory integration disorder treatment.  The Sensory Profile, which was developed by Winnie Dunn, Ph.D., is often used as part of the assessment process when sensory integration disorder is suspected.   It is designed to “profile the effect of sensory processing on functional performance in the daily life of a child.” (p. 1, Sensory Profile Manual, 1999).  Pediatric occupational therapists and speech language pathologists gain important insight from the results of this assessment.
The Sensory Profile utilizes a caregiver questionnaire, which the professional reviews with the parent.  Completing the profile is an educational experience in itself.   As a parent, caregiver, or teacher goes through each section, there is a realization that the behaviors they have observed are associated with particular neurologically-based sensory responses.  The Profile is divided into sections that look at auditory processing, visual processing, vestibular processing, touch processing, and multisensory processing to name a few.   As each section is completed, the parent or teacher rates how the child responds to a given situation.  In auditory processing, for instance,  the parent responds to statements like “Can’t work with background noise (for example, fan, refrigerator)” and “Doesn’t respond when a name is called but you know the child’s hearing is okay”.  Each section is further divided by whether a particular statement indicates a high threshold or low threshold for sensory information.
After the entire profile is scored, the results are placed into four quadrants:*
High Neurological Thresholds – It takes more sensory stimuli than is typical
Registration-The degree to which a child misses sensory input.  A child with a Definite Difference Score in this pattern misses sensory input at a higher rate than others.  This means the child is under-responsive to sensory stimuli or input or they are responding in accordance with the threshold.
Seeking-The degree to which a child obtains sensory input.  A child with a Definite Difference score in this pattern seeks sensory input at a higher rate than others.  This means that the child is over-responsive to sensory input or is responding to counteract the threshold.
Low Neurological Thresholds – It takes less sensory stimuli than is typical
Sensitivity– The degree to which a child detects sensory input.  A child with a Definite Difference score in this pattern notices sensory input at a higher rate than others or respond with oversensitivity to stimuli.   This means that their sensory system is over-responsive so even little things will cause them to stop what they are doing to pay attention to the new activity around them.
Avoiding– The degree to which a child is bothered bysensory input.  A child with a Definite Difference score in this pattern moves away from sensory input at a higher rate than others.    This means that the child is over responsive to sensory input or responds by avoiding stimuli.
*Definitions taken from the Sensory Profile Manual
Combined with other assessment results, one sees how helpful it is to have an understanding of a child’s sensory processing.  Not only for designing appropriate treatment activities but in planning the environment in such a way that the child is best able to take in new information.  When planning sensory integration disorder treatment, the Sensory Profile offers valuable insight into a format that is helpful for families and professionals.   Though occupational therapists use this information extensively when designing treatment, speech-language pathologists also benefit from the Sensory Profile when developing goals and effective learning environments for a child with sensory challenges.  For more information about sensory integration disorders, visit www.speechandot.com.
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epicslaymoment · 6 months
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Level 2 autistics: What are some daily support needs you have in place that are beneficial in your life? And could you be as specific as possible? I know they're different for everyone so knowing that could be helpful. Maybe i could apply some of those same things to my life. Long post because it's detailed so that way you can get an idea of what my life looks like.
Thank you to whoever reads this. If anyone can offer some support, it'd mean the world to me <3 Feel free to share/reblog, and comment/reply to me/others!
It might sound bizarre, but i really don't know my support needs as a level 2... which doesn't help my imposter syndrome. I have yet to recieve any help (it's a long story but i got dx'ed last year and just now am trying to get on disability/insurance/support.) But i still don't know where to turn for help, it's a lot to try and take care of.
I'm in & out of burnout, can't work, have bad executive dysfunction/can't keep a fixed routine or if i'm in one and fall off it burns me out, have PDA tendencies, my ability to process/remember things isn't great, poor decision making skills, i'd probably benefit from occupational therapy (for sensory and executive functioning skills), etc. I also have anxiety/traumatic experiences and health issues that make things worse. I don't really know what else to say i'm just trying to give some examples. I can't remember anything else, either.....
My sensory issues can be pretty bad. If i'm really overloaded, i'll go in and out of shutdowns and end up losing the ability to speak for a while. If it's really bad, i'm only able to do a thumbs up or down to communicate. For a while, i was unable to even go anywhere for months and was basically stuck in my bed bc the outside world was too much to handle.
The only consistent routine i have is cooking dinner because i actually enjoy it and look forward to it. I look at is as my "job" and even sometimes change into different clothes and put on my shoes that way it makes me feel more productive. It's hard being told what to do even if i'm told that i need to rest, i just can't. I only like doing stuff when i want to. Part of it could be PDA and another part could be because i'm trying to figure out what works for me.
I don't know where to work and there's not too many places that are sensory friendly, so i've been home for about two years. Working, as much as i love how it makes me feel accomplished and gives me something else to do, burns me out. The social aspect even if i'm not really talking to anyone is just too much to be around (or all the other sensory aspects.) I'm glad i have proof of my diagnosis though so if i CAN get a job, we can make accomodations and they'd hopefully take it seriously.
I'm iffy about college because i want to do it but at the same time, i've struggled really badly w school bc it's lot to handle and also causes significant burnout. School was a HUGE factor of my first ever burnout (8th grade was too much for me and then i switched to homeschool and that was a big adjustment, although i was glad to be home, i don't think i benefitted due to the lack of structure and heavy work load. High school took 6 years for me to complete and i finished it 3 years ago. I'm barely even considering going to college now bc it was just way too much.
Other examples are: occasional arfid issues with heightened stress, rigidity/sameness, black and white thinking, wrong priorities; like hyperfocus instead of making sure to stim or get off my phone and go to sleep or do something else, etc.
So anyway yeah all the things i mentioned in great or lesser detail on top of each other without any supports can be very overwhelming. I typically will get emotionally overwhelmed, anxious and shutdown/occasionally meltdown.
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nld-as-insights · 9 months
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Auditory hypersensitivity tip:
If you are sensitive to rock and pop music, try adjusting the treble and bass to find out if it’s the frequency that bothers you rather than just the volume.
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esperantoauthor · 2 years
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hello!! do you happen to know anything about sensory processing disorder in adults/teens? all of the articles that i’ve found have been talking about it in elementary age children, especially boys
Sure! Still not an Occupational Therapist, but the population I work with has a high rate of sensory processing challenges so I certainly have some background and experience in this area. Sensory processing issues are definitely something that can affect teenagers and adults!
Most articles do tend to focus on the early years when it comes to developmental disorders, I suppose because that is when diagnosis most often occurs and the importance of "early intervention." This can create the illusion that these are childhood when the reality is that they are lifelong conditions that one doesn't grow out of. Sometimes adding the words "adult" or "adolescent" to your internet searches can yield more specific results.
Here's a resource I found that might be a good starting place for you to learn more!
As you may know, the majority of the teenagers I work with have ADHD and I can definitely report that most of them also have some degree of difficulty with sensory processing. They can be fidgety, sensitive to loud sounds, only eat foods of certain textures, wear only soft tagless clothes, like to have a toy or fidget with them to touch/move/look at, spin in their chairs, get distracted if worksheets have too many elements, pace the classroom, and much more. Accommodations can be very helpful!
I hope that helped 💖
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passitonandon · 5 months
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the-boxy-journals · 7 months
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This image about audio processing seemed to resonate with folks on Twitter before the Musk-pocalypse:
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I also made this some years before that. Today, I might describe it more as a radio receiver that hops from one frequency to the next mid-sentence without warning. Like a radio scanning.
Before I had my ASD diagnosis, I was diagnosed with Sensory Processing (or Integration) Disorder, which is why I use those tags.
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blackrosecoven · 2 months
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Thanks to the amount of systems cringe stuff spamming this tag I finally gave in and had a look at what they're saying, great decision on my part, happy for myself and so grateful for the inspiration lmao.
Honestly fuck all the fake claiming stuff, that's old hat, I wanna talk about the reverse conspiracy theory stuff they got going on. Namely their new automod response to anyone that mentions RAMCOA. So uhhh trigger warnings for discussion on that.
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That link for an "archive database"? It points to the Grey Faction website, the Satanic Temples replacement for the False Memory Foundation. It's kinda sad honestly, sparsely populated with old news about Colin Ross' eye lasers and 80s satanic panic stuff to completely discredit the ISSTD as the organisation stands today. They completely deny the concept of repressed memories and don't believe in DID at all, even if they try to hide it with carefully chosen language
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Does this kinda stuff happen? Absolutely. But the issue is, unsurprisingly, nuanced and complicated.
The Body Keeps the Score has a great section on this. In one chapter the author recounts a patients sudden recollection of abuse memories after seeing their abuser having been arrested on television. The patient had spent their entire life having no recollection of these events, only for them suddenly to reappear in crystal clear and full sensory detail. It does sound kinda unbelievable, I mean we know how dubious and unreliable memory can be, how can these memories be preserved so perfectly outside of conscious awareness? Well the chapter goes on to explore accounts of traumatic memory around Shell Shock. As it turns out, veterans that didn't get Shell Shock often had very personalised accounts of the war, they would even romanticise their experiences spun as a narrative of personal valour and heroism. Shell Shock patients on the other hand had much more accurate and factual recollections that all corroborated with each other, it would be as if they were back there experiencing it as it was, as opposed to looking back on it from the present.
This is because of how memory is processed. A healthy processed memory is becomes part of your own personal narrative, how you feel about it, the lessons you learned from it, and how it relates to the rest of your life. A traumatic memory doesn't do this, because it is deemed as incompatible with personal narrative, impossible to feel anything about, and threatens the integrity of the rest of the psyche, it sits outside. Like lost luggage at an airport never opened and never claimed.
This isn't necessarily the case for traumatic memory in DID though, at least in a good number of cases what's preserved is the emotional memory, feelings of helplessness or betrayal, body sensations of things happening, but the details, the auto biographical recollection of events can be lost.
In fact, this is one of the key ways the false memory foundation claims have been debunked. You can install the memory of being lost in the mall to someone, but what you can't do is give someone PTSD symptoms around a false memory, those emotional and physical intrusions can't be implanted.
This is to say that the trauma is always real, it deserves attention and validation and treatment, but we do have to be careful about what we do with the content of traumatic memories. And you know what? This is 100% in line with ISSTD guidance for the therapy of patients with a Dissociative Disorder. Therapists are advised not to take disclosures of recounted traumatic memories too literally, not least of all because different alters might have different accounts of events. It can cause a lot of internal conflict and distress to believe one alter over the other and they can't all be right. So what you do is something called Processing. Here's a great video on that from the CTAD clinic
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This all relates to the derealisation aspect is DID, and in fact, many have called it a disorder of multiple realities rather than multiple personalities. I guess it depends on which way you wanna look at it from the DPDR continuum. Because of the extreme compartmentalisation of action systems, traumatic memory can be chopped up and distributed among different parts. Some get the emotional memory, some get the physical memory, some transform the content of the memory into something that fits the personal narrative of their created identity. For instance am alter that believes they are a victim of witch trials may have memories of a mob with pitchforks and torches, or a wolf alter might have memories of being surrounded and trapped by hunters in someone who has trauma around severe playground bullying. The emotional experience is retained, but the biographical details are changed into something the brain hopes can be processed, even if it fails in doing so.
Where this gets very messy, is that you can take a compartmentalised emotional or physical intrusive memory, devoid of content, and be suggestible to details that might fill the blanks. This is largely what happened during the satanic panic. Imagining a potential form of abuse, while triggered, can attach those imagined details to the emotional memory. Heck, multiple alters can each attach their own individual narrative of details to the same emotional Intrusion.
And this is a very serious problem I've seen in the community. So many times someone will ask questions about a relatively normal DID experience, and someone will chime in with "well in my case it's the result of programming". This is such a fucking irresponsible and dangerous thing to do. We cannot suggest possible forms of abuse to scared and confused systems that are in the wake of being triggered. This can go SO badly. Many of us suffer from psychosis, paranoia can quickly turn into a full blown delusion, especially when we're talking about organisations of child trafficking and mind control.
Cults exist.
Trafficking organisations exist.
Abusive religious organisations exist.
There's no denial that this happens, but we absolutely cannot just go around suggesting that this might have happened to someone who hasn't yet processed their trauma.
This isn't about disbelieving people, or telling people they are wrong about their trauma, but directing towards what matters, stabilisation from destabilising thoughts during a terrifying and confusing time, grounding, and finding a safe space through which to process the painful emotions so that they no longer intrude on daily life.
Back to Systems Cringe and the Grey Faction, there's something to be said about how faith in institutions can completely broken when we forget, and are reminded, that they aren't some flawless entity but are made up of flawed people that make mistakes
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But I think this comment sums up everything I would want to say on that
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charseraph · 11 months
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On Trumpet Bad Data Disorder
If a trumpet is blown into a storm, it may lose a significant number of its sensory and data nodes, leaving it blind and confused.
Trumpets missing key predators become barren from prey populations eating producers, making the trumpet perceptive but incapable of memory.
If it is missing herbivores, their predators starve, and their producers overtake the body. The trumpet can no longer sense, but has access to memories that are increasingly harder to find in a larger and larger memory space.
If sensory nodes are unable to store information in vegetation, their minds, unfit for storage of irrelevant data, will corrupt memories. If this memory is accessed by another node, the corruption will persist, sometimes being further compromised from more forwarding.
Bad data are misremembered memories, wrong commands, and self-duplicating thoughts. Similar to prions or cancers on Earth, bad data disorders originate from within, only becoming a problem after a chance mistake in the trumpets’ internal systems. Bad data is communicable if taken in by another trumpet’s nodes.
Corrupted memories can become inaccessible, garbled, undeletable, and overwritten (leading to decisions made on false assumptions or lies. E.g. throwing nodes off the main body because it’s “known” that it leads to food being found). Corrupted memories may implode as soon as they develop, sometimes taking healthy memories with them. They may implode after propagating, creating a wave of deletions across the trumpet’s memory.
Bad commands can overwhelm nodes unfit to fulfill the commands (such as directing a grounded node to fly with nonexistent wings), send nodes into infinite loops of action, or compel nodes to share their compromised data with other nodes.
Self-duplicating thoughts are mundane in content, but when grown out of control, they can consume the majority of a trumpet’s mind, overwriting memories and crowding out communication until nodes forget how to operate.
Normally, a trumpet that detects bad data would develop a fever, weeding out corrupted nodes in exchange for a recoverable loss in population. But with too few healthy nodes or too many corrupted nodes for every safe one, a trumpet may never initiate a fever, or kill off too many to stay conscious.
This state of no longer collaborating among their species from too much or too little data transfer is called delirium. These trumpets either appear very still or aimlessly active, and are no longer conscious.
Trumpets typically avoid anyone exhibiting delirium, but some desperate individuals will take the risk and scavenge one for resources. As a failsafe against taking on bad data, these scavengers will send in nodes that will be abandoned if they report loops or lies in recovered memories. Abandoned nodes live ferally, no longer connected to a network, sometimes maintaining the ecosystem for just a little while longer if they fill a niche left empty.
Quietly or violently, these trumpets’ ecosystems will collapse. As a last ditch effort, nodes will instinctually remain on the body in hopes of keeping data contained. If a delirious body falls, no nodes will abandon it.
Post-integration, trumpets develop therapy cures for corrupted nodes. Depending on the bad data type, trumpet therapists can heal looping, self-duplicating data, deletions, and lies. Trumpets in the future live longer, healthier lives.
Bad Data Disorder in trumpets presented a formidable hurdle in trumpet development, stifling congregation until the first remedies were developed—memory exercises in the form of solitaires, reality checks using physical records, and rehabilitation of corrupted nodes through a medium of information transfer impenetrable by bad data: language.
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skaldish · 6 months
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sorry for the incovinience, but I read this, and as neurodivergent medical student I'm very curious. Do you have any resources or recommend (websites,books,etc) about neurodiversity from a neurology,psychiatry pov? (especially from a neurodivergent health professional or science expert) Because it so hard to found those (mainly bc the missinformation and ableism), most books in my college's library are not updated :(.
not to mention some doctors have said some wild ableist shit (and even some medical students) :(
I don't have much, but I have directions I can point you towards. (I need to update it, but any sources I do find generally go on my brain blog @prefrontal-bastard.)
First, I highly reccomend the Neuroclastic website for autistic perspectives. This website is by and for autistic folks and features a multitude of people with different expertise and backgrounds, including scientists. I imagine any pertinent developments in our understanding of neurodiversity would probably appear on that website.
I also know the AIR Network Model's website has scientific articles on trauma and dissociation, so I recommend looking into them too.
I'd also look into the MNRI PTSD Recovery Protocol by Svetlana Masgutova, Ph.D. I'm not sure if she's neurodivergent herself, but I would hardly be surprised if she is.
I recommend this because the studies behind her protocol reveal some extremely telling things about neurodiversity and its relationship with trauma. I have one of her books and it goes into the entire neuroscience and testing behind it, but unfortunately copyright laws means I can't, like...share the charts. This approach seems to be the direction the science is taking us on regarding neurodiversity though, so it might be the "in" you're looking for in terms of a non-ableist medical framework.
(The breakdown though, because this shit's fascinating:
Traumatic stressors can cause our nervous systems to blow like overloaded circuits. This causes our primitive reflexes [patterns of movements that reflect the core operating system of mindbody interface] to re-emerge, or to fail to integrate if the trauma was during babyhood.
Evidently, retaining 35% or more of the known reflex patterns produces the symptoms associated with things like sensory processing disorder, autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, anxiety, or emotional dysregulation. It even contributes to depression and dyslexia.
Dysregulated reflexes can impact damn near anything: cognition, attention, coordination, disposition, emotional reactions, visual /auditory / spacial perception, pain perception and threshold, body growth, mood, and even the function of our digestive and immune systems.
From what I understand, certain primitive reflexes correlate with certain disorders. Apparently the Startle Reflex / Fear Paralysis Reflex and Moro Reflex are highly correlated with Autism diagnosis. Other reflexes potentially contribute to it since this is not a "rigid categories" thing, but those are the two her book is citing in particular here.
You can actually re-integrate these reflexes with exercises, which initially thought was fucking bogus until I tried it and suddenly could perceive and conceptualize things I didn't realize I couldn't before, as well as perceive parts of my body I didn't realize I couldn't perceive before [like my spine].
You can actually find integration exercises on youtube. It's an Occupational Therapy thing, but since it's new and emerging it's not something the average OT knows how to do yet, I'm afraid.
Also, important note: Some reflexes take longer to integrate, others don't. They might have to be integrated in a certain sequence depending on which ones are retained, but I'm not sure what all the sequences are.
Rule of thumb for anyone reading this: If the internal experience of "being you" sucks ass in any way, check your primitive reflexes. It ain't a curse and it ain't the devil, you might just need recalibrating.)
Hope this helps!
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weirdcore-catbxy · 5 months
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BIID Flag
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BIID: Body integrity dysphoria (BID), also referred to as body integrity identity disorder (BIID), amputee identity disorder or xenomelia, and formerly called apotemnophilia, is a rare mental disorder characterized by a desire to have a sensory or physical disability or feeling discomfort with being able-bodied, beginning in early adolescence and resulting in harmful consequences.
There were no BIID flags that I could find, or at least, none that appealed to me and/or weren't related to transID/radqueer stuff.
This flag is for people with BIID only!
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dr3amy-diss0-ho4rd · 10 months
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Did we just make a whole new fantasy-spec disorder? Yes.
Fantasy Identity Disorder, also known as FID, is a complex psychological condition that manifests as a profound and persistent disconnection between an individual's sense of self and their surrounding reality. Unlike traditional dissociative disorders, FID specifically revolves around the formation and intense attachment to a vivid, elaborate fantasy identity that becomes inseparable from the person's perception of themselves.
People affected by FID often exhibit a deep-rooted desire to live in a world of their own creation, where they assume a distinct alter ego or adopt a fantastical persona. This alternate identity is meticulously constructed, complete with a unique backstory, characteristics, and even supernatural abilities or traits. It serves as a refuge from the complexities and challenges of the real world, allowing individuals to find solace, purpose, and a sense of control within their imaginative realm.
The symptoms of FID can vary in intensity and may include persistent daydreaming, a preoccupation with the fantasy identity, difficulty differentiating between fantasy and reality, and a tendency to withdraw from social interactions. Individuals with FID may spend substantial amounts of time immersed in their fantasy world, engaging in elaborate rituals or role-playing activities that reinforce their chosen identity.
Fantasy Identity Disorder can have a profound impact on various aspects of a person's life. Relationships may be strained, as the individual struggles to balance their real-world obligations with the demands of their fantasy existence. Occupational functioning may be impaired, as the desire to live within the realm of their alter ego conflicts with the requirements of professional life. Additionally, individuals with FID may experience distress and a sense of loss when confronted with the limitations of their real-world circumstances, leading to emotional instability and a yearning to escape into their fantasy world.
Possible causes of FID include:
Childhood trauma or adverse experiences: Early childhood trauma, such as abuse, neglect, or significant disruptions in attachment, can sometimes lead individuals to develop FID as a coping mechanism. Creating a vivid fantasy identity may serve as a means of escape or as a way to regain a sense of control and agency in a world that feels unsafe or unpredictable.
Personality traits and predispositions: Certain personality traits, such as a strong inclination towards imaginative thinking, a high need for escapism, or a tendency towards dissociation, may make individuals more susceptible to developing FID. These traits could contribute to a heightened desire for an alternate reality in which they can freely explore their fantasies.
Social isolation or unfulfilled aspirations: Feelings of social isolation, a lack of belonging, or unfulfilled aspirations in the real world might prompt individuals to seek solace in their fantasies. FID could provide a way to compensate for the perceived deficiencies or unmet desires, offering a sense of purpose and fulfillment that may be lacking in their actual lives.
Media influence and immersion: Exposure to immersive media such as books, movies, video games, or online communities centered around fantasy worlds can play a role in the development of FID. Intense engagement with these fictional realms can blur the line between reality and fantasy, leading individuals to adopt and embody elements of the characters or worlds they admire.
Neurological or cognitive factors: There may be underlying neurological or cognitive processes that contribute to the development of FID. These could involve alterations in self-perception, imagination, or the integration of sensory information, although further research is needed to fully understand these potential connections.
The diagnostic criteria for Fantasy Identity Disorder are as follows:
Persistent preoccupation with a fantasy identity: The individual displays a pervasive and enduring preoccupation with a self-created fantasy identity, often exhibiting an intense attachment to this alternate persona. The fantasy identity is consistently present in their thoughts, desires, and actions.
Impaired differentiation between fantasy and reality: The individual struggles to differentiate between the fantasy identity and their actual identity, frequently blurring the boundaries between the two. This may result in difficulty distinguishing real-world experiences from events and circumstances within their imaginative realm.
Distress or impairment in functioning: The preoccupation with the fantasy identity causes significant distress or impairment in various aspects of the individual's life, including relationships, occupational functioning, or overall well-being. The person's engagement with the fantasy world interferes with their ability to fulfill real-world responsibilities and engage in daily activities.
Escape or avoidance behavior: The individual utilizes the fantasy identity as a means of escape or avoidance from real-world challenges, stressors, or emotional pain. They may actively seek opportunities to engage in fantasy-related activities, rituals, or role-playing to withdraw from or minimize their involvement in reality.
Significant duration: The symptoms of FID persist over a substantial period, typically for six months or more. The individual's engagement with the fantasy identity is not transient or temporary but remains a consistent and prominent aspect of their psychological landscape.
FID may be considered a form of disordered plurality, though this should be assessed by the specific individual(s) with the disorder.
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