A Mother’s Journey Through the Early Sensory Signs of Autism and ADHD

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Your son [music] has been diagnosed as autistic as well as ADHD. So, if you could just tell us about your journey. I mean, as the kids are growing, I mean, obviously the first couple of years they're toddling around, you're playing, then they start to verbalize a bit more. I think when they're little, uh it's not so much the verbal and the auditory side, it's more their reaction to the physical environment. So, things like, for example, that um he didn't like uh high-pitched sounds. So, for example, if an ambulance was driving past on the street, he would be very attuned to it, and he wouldn't like it.

[00:00:36]Um and it would be, you know, just something that you hear outside. So, most people wouldn't react to it that way. Or if there was a pressure cooker and the and the and the whistle goes off, then he'd run out of the kitchen if the whistle was going off. Also, because of the uh excessive kind of stimulant, right? In particular, that uh children have on and sensory aspect. When he was little and he was walking on the grass, if he was wearing a a flip-flop and the the the grass, the blades of grass touched his uh foot, the sole of his foot, he didn't like it. He would refuse to go on the grass.

[00:01:11]Uh so, that's how then he realized that, okay, you know, these these there's some something there. So, that Those were some of the early warning triggers. So, as I was saying, it wasn't so much the verbal side, it was more the the the the other aspects.