What Is Sensory Perception Disorder?
We often think of sensory perception disorder as something that can make its sufferers unable to see, hear, taste, etc. to the same capacity as those with normal sensory perception. This is true in some cases as we all have seen blind and deaf people in person and portrayed often on televishttp://www.newautismcure.com/wp-admin/post-new.phpion. However, there are other cases in which sensory perception is abnormally heightened. An alarm clock ring can be excruciating to hear, the smell of egg salad can be pungent, the feel of a warm washcloth on the skin can be intolerable. The shining of the summer sun through the curtains can be blinding and painful. Specifically in Autism, auditory hypersensitivity is very common and can be extremely painful. Another similar condition, Hyperacusis is common in Autism. In Hyeracusis cases, the sufferer is over-sensitive to certain frequency ranges of sound and is often unable to tolerate everyday sounds such as birds chirping, planes flying overhead,