#sensory integrative dysfunction

“The ability to attend to a task depends on the ability to screen out, or inhibit, nonessential sensory information, background noises, or visual information.”

A person with sensory integrative dysfunction may often respond to or register unrelated sensory information. They do not have the screening ability. By the “system”, they are considered to be distractible, hyperactive, or uninhibited. I wonder if we are trained like machines with this skill within the formal schooling system. The same way we are taught to wait in line for our turn. Is this screening ability taught to us from a young age? Part of it probably comes naturally to us but I need to explore this further.

In solidarity,