That sounds fantastic - I'm glad for you!!!

I don't have quite the level of processing issues as you or TT experience, but the more I read up on this and look at symptoms from infant to adult, the more I see the patterns in my life and in my family members. It's always irritated me that my mom is hypervigilant and reacts as though anything and everything is attacking her (!!!) when I tend to then also have a fight/flight response only to see she's dropped a stick in her knitting or that the gate banged when the kids came in. My mom can't stand having her ears open (hair has to cover them), she hears EVERY single little noise in our block and then wonders what people are doing, why dogs are barking in the next street, etc.
Neither my mom or I can eat egg white (like a fried egg). I hate the sound of emery boards and think that this, as well as chalk on cement/a black board, sounds and feels like what nails on a black board sounds like to other people. I can't bear suede. There are all these tiny things that seem to add up into tactile and auditory issues.
I have 3 kids and when all three are revved up and shouting I literally can't think. I can't wear high heels (balance), I do extremely badly in social situations where there are large groups of people - I do better with people I know well, like at family get-togethers, but strangers make me feel like I can't get everything to work together. I start to stutter because I'm trying so hard to watch for expressions/cues that I can't think about what I'm saying it's really annoying.

I don't like unexpected touch and except for DH, really don't like kisses - like family greetings etc.

Do you think it's possible to experience almost a shut-down in one sensory area due to not being able to cope with all of them and needing to work out what to focus on...??? If I meet new people or go somewhere new and have to talk to strangers, I can never remember what the place looked like afterwards. I can't work out if this is just because I am completely unobservant or because I just can't take the sensory load of everything and the emotional anxiety, and something has to go...???? Am I nuts?

Anyway... after my sidetrack there... I'm glad you're having some success, I think it's great to be aware of where and what problems you have so you can learn to cope and find things to add to a toolkit to help you when you're not coping.

Hope you have had more good days than hard!