Yes, it's the Sensory Issues Thread !

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I'm not going to list all of mine, but a few that come to mind right now are:

-Paper: I can't stand the feel of paper.
-Some book covers: there are some textures of book covers that I can't stand
-Shower: the feeling of each droplet of water hitting my skin, so many so fast, overwelms me, causing showers to sometimes even be painful
-Unexpected Touching: I *HATE* being touched.
-My hair going over my ears (I have to keep my hair short enough for this reason)
-Sweaters
-Touching anything rusty
-Chalkboards, as well as Chalk. I always avoided writing on the chalkboard in school for this reason.

Funny, I don't share (or have) any tactile bugbears.

But reading a lot of the others, I realise that I share them - one reason I like reading about them.
It's great because it makes me feel more normal.
It's great too, while I find many of them irritating, I'm not sufficiently irritated to realise that they're actually issues for me ... so it's great that others find them sufficiently irritating to notice them.
Such as, for instance : -

- Ceiling airconditioners that blow freezing air down onto you. They always make me move.

Oh! People fidgeting.
Kids who won't stand still in public standing areas - airport concourses, etc ... I just wanna nail them to the spot.

BIG ONE : - People who sway or rhythmically rock when they're standing. I've always figured this was a kind of stim, but not one I suffer. Drives me nuts - I just HAVE to move away from those people.

Humming : - I was sat next to by a middle-aged woman on a packed train, who hummed for the ENTIRE 50-minute journey. I was homicidal by the end of the journey. I mean, how do you ask someone to stop humming ?

People who keep sniffing - always seems offensively rude to me.

People who talk REALLY LOUD.
I always long to tell them to go and get their hearing checked or their ears syringed.
It's rarely due to anything but impaired hearing.

B.O, skat-breath (genuine halitosis - or breath that physically smells like sh*t) and stinking, unwashed hair (that one's an instant gag).

Garlic. Don't get me started on garlic. It should be outlawed.

I'm really starting to enjoy this thread.

Hehe.

My biggest issues come from:
-shirts that hug the neck
-water sitting on my skin
-doors slammed by me (I'm alright when others do it)
-most acidic smells - coffee, cooked tomato...
-bright lights - flourescent, direct sun
-most types of music
-strong scents - candles, perfume, body odor
-clothing tags

I hate strong smelling chemical gases or liquids. The smell of pure alcohol makes me choke. Also most types of bug spray have me coughing and spluttering for a while.

1) Babies crying. It hurts!
2) The type of lights they use in malls I go to!
3)Pants. They're too hot! But its not that bad so I can handle them.
4)Skirts..Skin against skin is creepy.
5) Axe body spray.
6) brown things on things to eat that aren't supposed to be brown. (Like a brown burned spot on toast).
7) Latex. It's so gross.>-<

God, I love latex - it's so soft and pliant.
You know, like medical latex gloves (I use them when fixing the car).

Mind, the smell on your hands when you've finished is another thing.

And you get the little particles on your hands afterwords.>-<

I like the texture but I hate the smell.

The smell of metal currency also revolts me.

As a child:
1) Cigarette smoke.
2) Low-fat milk/youghurt/margarine. Pure cream and pure butter no problem.
3) Porridge without salt or too much salt.
4) Most kinds of candy, chips, ice-cream, pop-corn etc.

As an adult:
1) SUN-LIGHT. It doesn't give me a shiver or make me feel ill - it just turns off my brain completely. As the darkness arrives, my brain lights up and my productiveness and efficiency returns to normal levels again.

As long as it rains, is winter, or I turn the day around and work the night shifts, I don't have any problem with the sun-light.

I refuse to enter the detergent/cleaning supply aisle, period

i have hyperhearing... sudden banging noises make me jump. babies crying make me want to tear my ears off. i can hear (real) people talking through walls. multiple conversations at once cause me to shutdown. bright lights make me lose focus and zone out. any form of touch is generally uninvited unless i instigate it. perfume is horrible and i generally stick to unscented items. i only wear cotton as anything else is way too uncomfortable. i particularly like hoodies as they are a comfort and block out unwanted sounds (i wear headphones a lot, even if i am not listening to music).

Same here.
Sets my teeth on edge - like actually biting on a coin.

I had a recent amalgam filling - and the post-operation pain didn't subside.
It was excrutiatingly metallic for a month or so after.

But I love wood, its texture, its unlikely rigidity, its organicness, its workability-with, its sandability, its patterns .... stonking invention.

Ugh. coins. *shudder*
Hate touching it, hate the smell

To be honest I don't really keep tabs on them because I assume everyone doesn't like some certain things and it's not that special.

I know that sometimes I have to leave a place if its too loud for 10 minutes and then I can come back, no one else I know does this [unfortunately it's not really acceptable to walk out of a lecture and then re join it (especially when your class is 50 people big)]
I work in the deli in a supermarket - cleaning the olives/antipasto trays (you have to initially spray them with water to get the majority of the oil off which makes all sorts of nice stuff float around in the air) often makes me gag and cough and people come up and see if I am sick. I also hate the window cleaner in large concentrations but every other cleaning chemical is fine.

Other then that, there are a lot of things I don't like, but I just wait for it to pass and try to ignore it. If I really don't like it then I have probably learnt to subconsciously avoid it by now

-crying babies/screaming children
-motorcycle engines
-short pants (the sensation of my lower legs exposed, ugh)
-short shirts that expose the midriff (again, hate the sensation of it being exposed)
-tags on clothes
-certain clothing textures
-excessively loud music or tv (more likely to happen if it's something I hate )
-people with an annoying or a high pitched tone of voice
-people talking too much and too loudly
-sudden noises of any kind
-being unexpectedly touched
-my dog barking
-light touching
-people walking right behind me
-excessively crowded places

There's probably more, but this is all that comes to mind right now.