Sensory Overload

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IMO you seem like an Aspie.

I feel overwhelmed at the shops, where there's too many colours and smells and different temperatures.
Also if someone is talking to me and I hear other voices nearby, I can't usually understand what is being said to me. I then just tend to freeze. High pitched sounds affect me this way too.

So, in regard to that article, how much can you relate to? Directly, and indirectly? All of it? Most of it?

I'm HFA. I can relate to almost all of it and I alternate between hyper and hyposensitivity.
I don't have associative memory problems. I think synaesthesia only affects me when I hear an extremely loud bang and I'll see a flash of white light.
I'm not hyposensitive with either smell or taste, what was written in the table there was kind of gross!

Oh those, they are terrible. I've always wondered about the impossibility of those dreams. Like dreaming of someone whispering is magnified hugely, and if they yell then it gets quitened down that you can barely hear it. Mainly those dreams have always been to do with sound, for me. A couple of times its with distance/size. Try to reach something, and it just moves really far away, or else you shrink very small, heh. Reach to touch something close, and its like trying to reach the stars. Really impossible to describe. But cool, in a way.