Disorder

The disorder I have is called, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, and it is a very rare disorder to have. My mother didn’t know why I wouldn’t wear certain socks, shirts, and pants and thought why I was like this when growing up.

I didn’t like my hair up, I hated to wear jeans, I hated to wear shirts with v-necks, frills or even lace and only wore certain socks (which are hard to find now).

When I was in 6th grade, my mother finally found out why. The school obviously had the answer. This woman who had a son just like me was going to give me therapy. She used a special brush to brush against my arms and legs. I even had to wear tight shorts during the time they asked me to come to her room to get used to.

Despite all that, it didn’t work. I still hate certain clothing and I still don’t get why she made me wear those shorts. They were actually gym shorts and were very uncomfortable that I sat down a lot since it wouldn’t bug me as much as it did when I was standing up.

Besides the touch problem of mine, I am sensitive toward sounds, movements, and my sight. Sight is proven because of me having glasses while the sound was proven by my fear of the vacuum when I was little. Even the toilet - mostly automatics - when I was young. As for movements, I may see things that didn’t really move. For example: I thought my mom was in the kitchen with the lights off but then the lights turn on and she walked in.

Easily distracted is another symptom I have but it’s not that easy to distract me. One major distraction to me is when I’m reading and a printer begins printing. This happened to me in 9th grade when I was in my English class and I was reading one word at a time with the printer.

One last thing that my disorder does is that I’m not very smart and need extra help in school which is mostly History and English while I can do Math fine - if I understand it well enough - since it’s hard for me to remember dates for History while my grammar, as you can tell, is not the best but, it has gotten better.