List your non-noise related sensory issues

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Yup.

LIGHTS

Anything that flickers or is too bright. My eyes always get sore after walking through a parking lot in the middle of the day, because I can't close them enough.

TACTILE

Lots of issues with this. My choices of clothing are very limited because of it.

SMELL

I hate the smell of methane and sulfur. Just about everything else doesn't bother me.

TASTE/TEXTURE

The taste of most vegetables. I'm a carnivore. Also, I actually don't like sweet things. I can't eat cake, it makes me feel sick.

Last edited by SammichEater on 31 Jul 2011, 5:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I don't think I have enough time to list them all, but here are the ones I can think of right now:

Smell

• almost all perfume and cologne
• many kinds of deodorant
• air "fresheners" (make me nauseous and give me a headache, do not freshen the air at all)
• coffee
• many kinds of sauces, especially what's in preprepared dinners like are sold at grocery stores, and especially what's in diet microwave dinners

Taste

• I can taste most kinds of soap on a dish that had been recently washed.
• grapefruit
• alcohol
• sucralose(Splenda)
• peppermint if it's mixed with any other flavor
• canned tomatoes(very metallic)
• carrots unless they're boiled
• lima beans
• When I was younger, cranberries

Texture(food):

• eggs and anything with egg-like textures
• gelatin and anything with similar textures
• meat(although most chicken is bearable), especially pork, fish, steak, fat, skin
• tofu
• macadamia nuts
• chickpeas
• soybeans
• uncooked mozzarella cheese
• pulp
• wooden utensils
• potatoes, before they have been cooked or after they have cooled down
• ketchup
• thin spaghetti

Touch(non-food)

• static cling
• wool
• yarn
• corduroy
• smoke(burns my lungs, makes it hard to breathe)
• sock seams
• clothing tags
• slimy things
• oily things(cooking oil, almost all lotions, fabrics that feel oily, the oil in the air after someone has sprayed perfume or burnt a candle)
• SILK
• NYLON
• wearing thin fabrics(like a very light t-shirt or like khakis, it feels like women's clothing)
• clothing which is either too loose, too tight, or especially clothing which is both too loose in some areas and too tight in some other areas, like boot-cut jeans
• my own hair
• my own fingernails and toenails
• gritty textures, like concrete
• dirt or dust on my skin
• lint
• anything else that feels like it's stuck to my skin or leaves any kind of residue
• people touching me unless I initiate it
• being tickled(I hate this so so much)
• air blowing on me

Sight

• deep red
• fluorescent colors
• flashing lights
• most led lights, like on alarm clocks, Christmas lights and electronic devices
• many kinds of fluorescent lights
• direct sunlight and sunlight reflecting on some things(bearable if I'm wearing sunglasses, but otherwise I can't open my eyes)

Last edited by matt on 31 Jul 2011, 6:48 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Same!

I don't like the feel of material (clothing) touching my jaw line.
I am sensitive to light and too much brightness will make my brain sizzle with stress (like during mid summer).
The texture of coconut.

I can live without the surrounding sounds, but my problem with using music to drown out other sounds is that I have to crank the music volume to do it, and that doesn't exactly help my sensitive hearing.

Light: bright light, slowly changing lights, flashing lights, strobe lights.

Taste: Anything with too much flavour in it. Spicy food is especially flavoursome and people think I don't like spicy food but it's the intersity of the flavour. Anything from tomato sauce, sweet chill, curry salt n vinegar, etc, rye bread.


Touch: Dry scratchy surfaces like concrete, dry skin, dry stiff towels, uncooked meat (and other sticky stuff), satin fabric, etc.

My tactile sensitivity has increased lately to make eating toast and oats hard.

I like to touch wet soft towels, cold creams (though not lather myself in them), soft material or animals fur (though not for too long), warm water, etc.

I have severe sensitivity to noise too.