How about that? I just found this interesting article, again...on sensory issues.
Early intervention can help with sensory overload
In some homes, a child's sock is simply that: A child's sock.But in homes like Kelly Chirdo's, it is not.The little ball of cloth is an instigator of tears, a symbol of lost time and sometimes the cause of a missed school bus or activity.
Kelly's 10-year-old daughter, Macy, simply cannot bear most socks. Or tags in the back of her shirts. Or seams in her clothes.The socks must be seamless (or turned inside out) and the tags must be cut out, or the clothing won't get worn. Period.
"At first I thought, oh, she is a diva," says Chirdo of Irondequoit, recalling how Macy's early, insistent arrival caused an unplanned home birth. "Then I realized that this wasn't attitude, these things really bother her."
As it turns out, these things — and sometimes many more — bother an awful lot of kids.
"We got talking about this one day and found four people on our staff have the same problem," says Lisa Revell, an Irondequoit office manager whose 12-year-old son, Joe was, as a preschooler, "a horrible nightmare" when it came to sock seams and height, tags, winter boots and most other aspects of dressing.
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