My beautiful elizabeth is twenty six years old and has Sensory Processing Disorder(SPD) and global dyspraxia.
Both of these disorders have made life a lot of hard work for her.

Yes, we’ve done therapy and Yes, we’ve done work, both her and us.

And yes, we have supports in place . With calendars and notes and everything that you can do.

We are trying and of course we’re still learning because aren’t we all working and a work in progress.
But the one thing that still trips me up it this think called… habits.
We all make them and they’re hard to break, but when you have dyspraxia, habits are made instantly and are so very hard to change. And an dare I say, break them.


But one thing I’ve noticed is that if life goes on day to day. And you think things are in order and learn that a bad habit has been made by Elizabeth. It just stops me in my tracks. Because I know how hard it is to fix it.
I just learned that Elizabeth has been staying on her phone late at night.

Now she’s twenty six pretty typical right?

Right!
But when your whole system requires sleep and rest and a schedule to be as productive and organized, like Elizabeth’s And let’s face it tire people just aren’t more naturally crabby
It can make for tougher days for her.

And then consequently for us.

And then consequently she needs more help. Which is ok, except then that starts a habit of being more dependent and more reliant on us, which is not the goal of the independence she keeps driving for.


So we’re working on breaking and adjusting this habit of night time phone use. We have talked and discussed the better choices she can make instead. And here is to hoping that she will make the better choice.

I know we’re not alone in this but thought I’d share that even 26 years in we are still working and learning.

I wish everyone a peaceful week

Michele Gianetti author of Elizabeth Believes in Herself