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When my son was two years old, he slipped and hit his lip on the bathtub. I initially thought he was fine, as he didn’t cry very much, and there wasn’t a lot of blood. However, in the next few days, as his lip started swelling up and he developed two black eyes, I realized he was hurt much more seriously than I initially thought.
As it turned out, this high pain tolerance, combined with his hyperactivity, were some of the early signs that my son is hyposensitive. The way we process sensory information is really foundational to how we understand the world, says Stephanie Okada, an occupational therapist with Total Spectrum Counseling, who specializes in treating people with sensory differences.
For people who are hyposensitive, “their sensory system is not registering that information in the same way that most people are.” Instead, it will often take a higher level of sensory input, to register in a similar way to someone who isn’t hyposensitive. Hyposensitivity falls under the umbrella of sensory processing disorder—when someone does not interpret sensory stimuli in the way that a neurotypical person does….Story continues…
By: Rachel Fairbank
Source: ‘Hyposensitivity’ Can Look a Lot Like Misbehavior | Lifehacker
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