The Cutting-edge Natural Approach to….Squirrel!
I grew up in the 1950s and 60s. I had dyslexia and probably a touch of ADHD, which unlike today, no one had ever heard of in the fifties and early sixties, so it was just considered a disciplinary issue. To compound the problem, my nanny was Danish and loved her coffee. Apparently, the Danish felt it was perfectly fine to give coffee to children. She put coffee, milk, and sugar in my sippy-cup. I came to find out, over sixty years later, that I have a genetic mutation that causes me to be a slow metabolizer of caffeine. So, I really don’t know if it was ADHD or Folgers. Heavy coffee drinkers might want to keep this in mind.
At around first grade my personality took a permanent turn. When I walked into class, usually jacked up on coffee and sugar, and was forced to sit quietly in those little desks and listen to a nun whah-whah like the teacher in a Peanuts cartoon, it was BOOORRING! Hey, it was really the first time I had a tribe of children to play with. I had a plethora of new faces, new sounds and new things to see and do. I have now come to understand, my brain was taking in about ten times more data than the rest of the kids.
Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD) is like a unique symphony playing in our brains. Imagine your senses — sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing — sending amplified signals to the brain. In someone…
