Ep. 106 — Sensory Processing Disorder and ADHD: “Maybe I’m not crazy.”

About this episode

Megan and Michelle discuss sensory processing disorder and its connection to ADHD, sharing personal experiences and insights.

This week, Megan and Michelle take a little detour from the parenting book because they stumbled into something that immediately felt too important not to talk about. The conversation starts with sensory processing disorder, or SPD, and pretty quickly turns into one of those Spicy Brain moments where a whole bunch of old experiences suddenly start making a different kind of sense. Not in a neat little “we solved it” way. More in a “wait a second, this might explain a lot” kind of way. Michelle brings in what she has been reading about sensory processing disorders and the way the brain can struggle to receive, organize, and respond to sensory information like sound, light, texture, smell, and movement. And as they start talking through the examples, Megan just keeps having one of those "oh no, that’s me" moments. The long shifts at the aquarium. The way certain sounds physically hurt. The perfect chip. The manga scrolling at night. The food textures. The blinking lights. The chewing. The box paper. The moving chaos. Suddenly this old label of “too sensitive” starts looking a lot less like a personality flaw and a lot more like an actual pattern. What makes this episode really…

People in this episode

Hosts: Megan Mioduski, Michelle Woodward

Topics covered

• Sensory Processing Disorder
• ADHD
• Mental Health
• Neurodiversity
• Personal Experiences

Keywords

• Sensory Processing Disorder
• ADHD
• Mental Health
• Neurodiversity
• Personal Experiences
• Sensory Information
• Focus

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