Psy/311 Week 1 Reflection

I’ve learned several new things in this course, but there are some that stick out more than others. First, I learned about how the perceptions and sensations are heightened for someone with a sensory processing disorder. I didn’t realize exactly how overly sensitive they were to every day sensations, it almost reminds me of when my anxiety or migraines are flaring up, but it’s a continuous thing. The discussion we watched the video that showed us what it is like walking down a normal street with autism, which helped me to physically see it, so I could understand it better. I will use this information to understand more of what my friends or anyone I come in contact with that have one of these disorders, goes through on a daily basis. I am also an education major and this information
I never really thought about gender besides that we are born either a man or woman. I’ve worked with transgender individuals before and I didn’t think much about it except that they are who they want to be. The main thing I learned from that lesson is the dangers in how you handle gender with your children. In the McGraw-Hill site, we learned about a child named Storm and how his parents are raising him genderless. I talked about this in the discussion on what did we think, but it is just something that has stuck with me. The American Psychological Association’s Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Concerns Office stated that there is no research available that says weather being raised a “genderless child” is harmful or not. To me, that just means that what they are doing is an experiment that can go horribly wrong just because their oldest is a transgendered child. I will use this information in my family life, if we decided to have children I plan on not overemphasizing gender. I think that will just confuse them if they do not know their gender. If they decide later to change who they are, we will accept that and love them for