Hacking My Child’s Brain

February 27, 2007

As a software engineer, I see the human mind as a beautiful combination of software and hardware. That’s why I’m trying to hack my son’s brain. Caleb, 6, suffers from sensory processing disorder. To get a glimpse of what life is like for him, imagine you have no peripheral vision, and you constantly hear echos and distorted, out-of-sync sounds, making it hard to understand speech or appreciate music. When you walk, you can’t tell where your legs are, or whether your arms are swinging. Sometimes just keeping your balance is difficult. You exasperate people for doing things you’re not even aware of, like bumping into them or not making eye contact. (Wired)