Hi Debbie,
I totally defer to your expertise on this and certainly on the use of terminology. You are right; I would never call it a "disorder" because besides being really annoying, it didn't limit his activity. I was thinking that by using the word "issue" I was taking it out of the realm of "disorder" but allowing there to be a small senory componant in a non-diagnosing non-technical way. Does "issue" have a technical meaning in this area?
When I watched the kids in the lessons before and after him quickly blow the water out of their nose and get back to swimming while DS spent over half his lesson clearing his nose (while I kept thinking what a waste to be paying the teacher to watch DS blow his nose and leave these little pools of nose water one the pool edge!), I did see that there was "something different" about him, whatever you want to call it.
I would probably say that DS is very sensitive to any fluids in his nose and over reacts to nosebleeds and colds. But I still wouldn't call it a disorder. He is definitely OE and it is probably that combined with whatever bad experience he had.
Last edited by acs; 10/07/08 11:17 AM.
