A hyposensitive child may appear to have a few different things going on. Some children who are hyposensitive may appear to simply be unaware of the visual inputs I described before. For example, they may not seem to notice when the lights come on in a dim room, they may not notice if someone enters a room, if something changes in their environment, if there is a large busy crowd instead of a small group, or if something in their environment is moving.
At the same time, some children who are hyposensitive may appear to be seeking visual input. This would mean that all of those visual inputs I described as things that I dislike or avoid, these children may be seeking them out within their environments. They may be watching the fan more than other children typically might or the blinking lights. They may be absorbed in watching all of the people moving within a busy room because watching all of this movement is stimulating their visual system in a way that they are craving because they are not as easily stimulated as their peers.
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