how much sensory can you take till it feels to loud/overload

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idk for me.

i think it changes every day for me.

I have no idea when enough is enough. I can't predict it. That's one of the reasons I am so isolated now. I do not fear going out. I fear going out, overloading and not being able to cope or meltdown at the wrong place, wrong time. I'm just so damned burnt on socializing and failure. I think 55 years of trying has proven two things:

1) I am not good at it...at all.....
2) It has severe consequences in most settings. Well, every setting but at home.

Everything is too loud for me. I live with earplugs in 24/7, and they're not nearly effective enough.

Not much at all.

It depends on a few things, my ability to cope (and not go into overload) with external sensory stimuli is diminished when I haven't had enough sleep, when I am sick, if I have had alcohol to drink the night before, or say if I have eaten something that causes internal agitation etc etc. If one of these is occurring, my capacity for adequate constraint is reduced and overload can transpire. If one of my senses is being incited, it can have a cascading effect, and then cause overload.

Not, very much Especially if it is one of my most acute senses..

I often get sensory overload at school or out walking on the busy, noisy street, but even though it overloads me, I force myself to keep going, even if it is unbearable.

That's my problem. I keep forcing it until it just breaks through. It's like all that pent up ----something----(I don't know what to call it) just pours out. And, it's not pleasant. It's that way with everything I do. Just keep pushing until I drop.
It's what I'm 'supposed to do'
It's what I'm trained to do
It's what I do and it's not good for whatever reason.

And it's getting easier for that to just break out with less stimulus. Just a bit toasted these days.