Making Sense Quotes

“They found that, while typical brains without SPD, often called neurotypical by people in the sensory field, habituate to a noise or stimuli of some kind, meaning that they stop paying attention to it shortly after it starts, people with SPD never really do. It’s as if the sensory input is new each time it occurs.”
― Rachel Schneider, Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues

“while SPD and ASD share some sensory similarities within the structure of the brain, they also have critical differences.”
― Rachel Schneider, Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues

“It’s not that being deaf means we have naturally heightened other senses; our brain just learns how to support the other senses differently.”
― Rachel Schneider, Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues

“My sensory experiences are not a series of complex but mutable thoughts that I can work to wipe out from my consciousness, or a difference in chemistry that can be alleviated through medication. They’re simply the result of how my brain is built.”
― Rachel Schneider, Making Sense: A Guide to Sensory Issues