How consistent are your sensory issues?

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My sensory issues fluctuate a lot. I sometimes don't have any and they sometimes bother me quite a bit. Do they fluctuate for most people or are they more consistent?

Mine are extremely consistent. They are aways there. The only thing that fluctuates is how well I'm able to cope with/withstand them.

mine are consistent I can't be in bright places (sun or places with harsh lighting) and I can't deal with loud noises/noisy environments

Fluctuate in intensity depending upon whether or not I get enough sleep.

I think it's a mix for me. I always have them, but if I'm stressed or tired, they seem worse, and/or I can't cope with them as well.

It's hard to tell when my perceptions might be off as to whether something is worse or I just can't deal with it as well...

Emotion makes mine worse, especially any emotion that is not happiness related. Emotion wears me out period.

If I am doing something and know what I am supposed to do and have a "role", you might say, in a setting, the sensory stuff isn't as noticeable in the moment as I have my "role" to focus on. But then I can get overdone by the role I am playing and get overloaded from that and have to stim somewhere I won't be seen or take breaks more often than others.

I also seem to have this "crying hump" I have to get over. After the first 30 minutes to an hour or more maybe especially in an unfamiliar environment involving crowds I get tears in my eyes and feel the need to cry but can't. That passes after a bit and then I am more comfortable but still withdrawn.

My vary depending how much I sleep, whatever I am hungry and how is my overall mood.
They especially get much stronger after a sensory overload episode. I hear literally everything then and can't fall asleep because everything bothers me even if my room is as silent and comfortable as always.

And when I am doing something interesting enough to get me into hyperfocus my sensory issues seem to disappear for the time being.

In my case my perceptions can be off sometimes. I once remember the radio seemed to be louder than usual. I asked other people, but they said it was just me.

Definitely. Also possibly illness and other energy-depleting things. My theory is that the sensory stuff is there all the time but that I learned to filter it or compensate for it as I grew up. When I get fatigued or very stressed, I lose the capacity to do that, so sensory stuff that I haven't been thinking about comes back strong.

Mine are constant. My ability to cope with them varies with mood and anxiety.

Mine fluctuate quite a bit too. For example, most of the time I'm fine with the noise in cafe's or restaurant's, while sometimes - out of the blue - I feel like the kid in this clip from man of steel:



I have no idea what triggers it.