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Chasing Life

Living a Sensory-Informed Life

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered why we get hangry or car sick? It happens when our sensory system gets dysregulated. For some people, this happens all the time and can be debilitating to their life. On today’s episode, occupational therapist Virginia Spielmann breaks down the challenges of navigating our world for people with sensory processing disorder. Plus, retired army vet Terry Lashley shares his tips for parenting a neurodivergent child.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

It was spring 2017.

0:03.6

Terry Lashley took his wife and their three daughters out to a local music festival in Atlanta.

0:09.3

Their baby daughter, Skye, was just a newborn at the time.

0:13.3

The festival grounds were packed and Terry was pushing baby Skye in a stroller through the crowd

0:19.5

when things started going wrong.

0:22.0

As we got closer to the center of the festival where the sound was the highest.

0:27.2

Skye just totally went, you know, like you would think someone was like really harming her

0:34.9

in the moment.

0:35.9

She was screaming yelling and we was just having a panic attack.

0:39.8

Like, what's going on with our baby?

0:41.2

What happened?

0:42.8

Freaking out, Terry carried Skye in his arms and left the festival.

0:47.4

She calmed down after that, but he was left shaken by the incident.

0:52.0

That was the beginning of us recognizing like wait a minute, something's different about

0:56.8

our baby, you know, in regards to her sensors and how she interacts with her environment.

1:03.5

We rely on our senses for everything.

1:07.0

There's such an essential part of life that most of us probably just take them for granted.

1:12.2

But sometimes one or more of our senses can go awry.

1:16.8

Maybe we feel too much, like Terry's baby, or not enough.

1:22.2

Maybe we feel a sensation, but we don't know how to interpret it.

1:26.6

In this episode, we'll take a look at sensory processing disorder, how it can disrupt our

1:32.2

lives, and what we can all do to support people who have different sensory experiences.

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