Do you wear sunglasses and/or earphones or earplugs

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I wear sunnies but I need ear plugs. Usually if I don't forget my meds I'm ok.

Standard survival gear for me.

If I could find a decent pair of clip on shades and not loose them I definitely would. I used to have a lovely pair of prescription sunglasses that were so dark people were shocked I could see out of them. I've never found anyone willing to dye the lenses so dark since and that was twenty years and lots of prescription changes ago. Noise is not usually an issue for me.

What, however, can be done for olfactory issues? I can deal with scents if they come at me one at a time but I can't walk down the aisle of the store that sells cleaning supplies or enter a candle shop without feeling like I've been punched in the nose by the various smells.

I think that I would like for my next glasses to have transitional lenses, and only hope that they would work when I am in fluorescent lighted environments.
I wear rifle range caliber noise canceling ear muffs on a regular basis....I can "freak out" if I can't find a pair. I have one main pair that I use and then numerous cheap pairs from the dollar store which I stock pile because I am scattery and misplace things....I am wearing a pair right now...the good ones...and am still very sensitive and disoriented...in my current environment

I wear sunglasses often even when cloudy, of course. I wear earplugs to sleep every night with one of those eye mask things and pillows on top of my head.

When a vacuum is on I where ear plugs. Sometimes I'll leave them in when it's over with. Sometimes I just like the muffled sound.

I sometimes use my music ear buds without any music on to muffle noise as well. I have forgot them on accident once and I felt naked on the bus.

draelynn said:

"I've used music - at ear splittingly loud volumes - to cancel out car noise, on trains, etc[...]At home I opt for the good old fashion hands over the ears. Without knowing that I had sound sensitivities, I never considered earplugs before. After all, I was just being a baby and a drama queen. Wondering how many years of constant agitation I could have avoided with that one little piece of knowledge"

I had the same experience growing up, constantly getting yelled at and made to feel like a terrible person for putting my fingers in my ears. I listen to music a lot, although I don't think I have damaged my ears too much. I discovered ear plugs a couple of years ago, and now I wear them around the house, although my parents don't like this any more than they liked me plugging my ears with my fingers. Luckily for me, I am almost 23 now and so they can no longer yell at me/convince me that I deserve to be punished simply for covering my ears.

I was recently at support type of meeting and there was a couple of conversations going on at once and I wanted to put my hands over my ears.

I hate trying to have a conversation when there are other conversations happening around me...........I always half cover my ears while still looking at and listening to the person I'm talking to in these situations.........it only helps a little. No one has told me that this offended them.

I use sunglases. Headfones. and ear plugs. somtiems ear plugs and also headfones at the same time.

I always wear dark sunglasses when I'm outside unless it's after dark or unless there are extremely dark clouds covering the whole sky like during a thunderstorm(and during a thunderstorm I often still wear sunglasses to keep the water out of my eyes). Even on most cloudy days I'd still wear them.

And when I am outside, even with the dark sunglasses on, I usually still keep my left eye squinted and my right eye completely closed.

I don't wear earplugs because all earplugs I have ever tried were painful. I do wear ear protectors in noisy environments, or at least headphones when not. But I don't listen to loud music. Apparently the volume that I listen to music at is very soft.

And I sleep with a pillow over my head to quiet the noise and block out the light.

I wear sunglasses most of the time during the day, even when it's cloudy or raining. My light sensitivity has gotten better over the past few years, though. I used to have times when my light sensitivity was so bad I had to go find a windowless room to stay in with the lights out for 15-20 minutes. I haven't done that in several years. I used to wear sunglasses indoors, too. At one point I considered getting some new sunglasses that had just come out that were so dark the manufacturer warned that they should only be worn during bright sunny days on snow. I don't get too irritated by fluorescent lights. However, even when I can handle whatever light conditions I'm in, I always feel a sense of relief whenever I put my sunglasses on or go into a dark room.

I don't have any real sensitivities regarding sound, unless it's a really high-frequency noise. I do sometimes have issues understanding people if there is too much background noise, even if the person speaking is louder than the background noise. Air conditioning and computer servers are real bad for this.

I also have this thing sometimes where I hear someone speak, but there's a very brief delay in actually understanding what the person said. By the time I respond with, "What?" I've understood what was said. It doesn't happen all the time, though.

Lights are a problem but I just rub my eyes. I already wear glasses and mum would never buy me those prescriptions sunglasses. *sigh*
I do wear headphones though. And I play music on them. Loudly. Preferably music with a lot of bass because my headphones are not noise-canceling. So I play a lot of Angels and Airwaves because it feels the same. Otherwise, I just try to deal with the stimuli as if I'm exercising myself to get used to them. It helps doing that, but sometimes I just can't take it.

I wore my sunglasses frequently even in my university classes. People probably thought I was an idiot. I did it not so much for sensory issues but because I didn't want to wear regular glasses. I thought I'd look too nerdy and because it helped a bit with with eye-gaze/contact problems. I kinda wanted to get that Terminator look.

When the sun is too harsh, I wear sunglasses; earplugs just to bed so that i can fall asleep.

i also wear sunglasses outside, the sun is just a torture; when i'm in my room; i close the blinds to keep the majority of the light out.
my sunglasses are polarised ones, so there is no shift in colour or vieuwing angle at the edges, which annoys me to no end when i'm wearing normal shades.

as for earplugs; i do have specally made active supression ones that i always carry with me, but to prevent getting used to them and becoming overloaded when i take them out; i only actually wear the plugs if it is really nessecary.

I nearly always wear sunglasses outside, even when its cloudy. I also have 'black out' blinds in my room and wear an eye mask to sleep as the light still manages to creep in!

Like a lot of people hear I use my Ipod to filter out noise when I'm outisde but I wear ear plugs to sleep or in very noisy venues.