which of your senses is dull and which is highlighted?

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My olfactory sense is somewhat dulled (cannot smell certain odors, yet I can smell and taste the cologne the chef wore on my food) and my proprioception leaves much to be desired. Aside from that, I'm generally hypersensitive (yet seeking).

Everything is hypertensive and sometimes, it's extra-hypersensitive.

Sometimes noise/light/smells can be annoying, then other times they can be really overwhelming. Light can give me migraines. Flashing lights, seizures.

I like flavour in my food though. I get a type of chalky texture from chocolate sometimes but ignore it. Maybe chalky is the wrong word but it's close. Dry but fudgy.

But as a child I was hyposensitive, not so much to texture, though I could have sticky hands or be dirty for hours without caring. When I became an adolescent I started to feel uncomfortable. I was ok around noises. I was always mistaken for deaf because I never seemed to hear anyone talking to me. I had no issues with light or smells too. Oh, how I miss those days.
Also, I didn't feel pain. I can still take burns as though I wasn't holding the pan for 3 seconds. I often accidentally burn myself when washing up. It hurts then it's gone.

I have this period of numbness too where I can barely experience any sensation except for sight. It's in a shutdown/ hyper from stress/ post seizure mode. I have a lot of health issues. I can also lose the ability to feel emotions.

Hearing: Hypersensitive

Sight: Average

Touch: Average

Smell: Slightly underaverage

Taste: Underaverage

It's hard for me to isolate individual senses.

My hearing isn't great because of years spent listening to loud music regularly in my teens and 20s, but some sounds are unbearable to me, like the high-pitched whine of a motor in a cooler at the grocery store. I don't see how the workers and the other customers can stand around like nothing's going on. How can they not hear it??

My vision has always been 20/20 but it's now doing the middle-age thing and I can't read fine print anymore. Bright light still bothers me though and certain colours make me queasy.

My sense of smell is super-charged. My husband cut himself the other day and I could smell the blood. I've had to leave work because the scene shop was right down the hall from my office and all the chemical smells come wafting in and I get dizzy. And once when I was coming home at 3 am I saw a pickup truck run over a median and nearly flip and as I passed it I could smell alcohol. Their windows and my windows were open just a crack, and I was smoking a cigarette, but still I could smell it.

My sight is probably my dull sense. I'm almost blind in my left eye.

My sense of hearing is my strong point, being musical after all.

My sense of smell is very weak. Other people might smell something and complain about it and I will just wonder what they are smelling.

My sight and touch are very sensitive. I can read small print across a room, and no one can touch me so lightly as that I wouldn't feel it. However, they are both also sensitive in the bad way.

I don't know about my sense of taste, because it isn't really discussed, but I think it might be a bit dull, because I like very strong flavors like curries and Brussels sprouts.

My hearing is basically just glitchy. I'm very musically oriented and pick up on rhythmic and tonal intricacies, and I'm prone to hearing when the noises around me are making a particular rhythm (very common to people who have studied music theory). On the other hand people have commented since I was a little boy that I have bad hearing, because I always am asking them to repeat themselves. However, I think this is mostly an attention issue, as my brain registers talking as a background noise rather than an acute noise like cars crashing, screams, etc. I am also prone to ringing in my ears, and during puberty experienced visual synesthesia from some sounds, though it's gone now.

All five of my basic senses are hypersensitive. My tactile sense is probably the most hypersensitive of all five, but they're all extreme. My vestibular sense is hyposensitive.

I have a very weak sense of smell, maybe due to allergy and sinus problems. I have a hypersensitive and unfiltered sense of sound, balance, heights, and sight.

The height is the most interesting to me because those things become better with deep pressure input. I am unable to even walk up a stepladder to change a lightbulb, or walk on an escalator. When I get enough deep pressure input to calm all my senses, I'm able to function a lot better.

My hearing is hypersensitive and touch is hypo-sensitive. My pain threshold is also quite high. My other senses deviate in sensitivity slightly, but not noticeably enough to irritate me.

my sense of smell is quite weak, which automatically makes my taste just about average, although i can increase my smell/taste by concentrating if i want to (for example, when i'm cooking) in the same way as i can lower my other senses

all of the others are very acute though, i hear anything and everything, i have 200 degree vision, i feel 'touch' from half a centimeter away from my skin, i feel the difference in air pressure if the doors of a bus open or close, i even feel the fields on strong (electro)magnets in the EM lab on the university...

Dulled sense of pain. Hypersensitive to light and touch.

Sight: By far my weakest sense. I'm legally blind in my right eye and near sighted in the left. However, at closer distances or, ironically, in the dark, I seem to have better vision than others. Even at far distances I have a tendency to notice things before anyone else, I just have a harder time figuring out exactly what those things are. I'm also extremely sensitive to changes in lighting.

Taste: I'm not sure about this one. I can often taste ingredients in dishes that other people seem not to and I often find myself very sensitive to things that are sweet and occasionally those that are salty (the dish can have barely any sugar or an average amount of salt and it's overwhelming to me, whereas it's normal or non-existent to other people). However, I can eat things that are extremely bitter, sour or spicy to most people but to me they'll be normal or lacking in flavor and I love water (especially if it has a lot of minerals in it). I've always had a preference for those 'tastes', so perhaps I've just built up a tolerance.

Touch: I'm extremely sensitive to touch. I can always feel when something/someone touches me or even just grazes against my hair. Even a simple hug can sometimes be unbearable and I can't stand the feeling of wax in my ears. But on the flip side, I love being surrounded by pillows/blankets and I do like to wear clothes, lol. However, the material can not be satin, lace, wool, (p)leather or feathers and I absolutely cannot sleep on a soft bed (unless it's a water bed). Also, my brain seems to have things messed up in the sensational department, namely pain. I have an extremely high pain tolerance and often find it pleasurable.
(I have been told that this is apparently not "normal"...whatever that is.)

Hearing: I'm also extremely sensitive to hearing. I can hear things that most people I know cannot (I can hear people from across a crowded room, can hear dog whistles, etc.) and some things that I hear are actually painful (if that's possible) such as nails on a chalk board, dog whistles, squeals of brakes, the motors of some machines, etc. But as with my sense of touch, my brain has crossed certain wires. For example, if I'm talking to someone in a parking lot the conversation will become the "background noise" whereas the sound of cars, doors, etc. will become the primary noise when in fact, it should be the other way around. It's because of this that I sometimes have to ask people to repeat themselves, not because I didn't hear them but because my brain doesn't always process it clearly (and I want to be sure I'm replying to them instead of the person two lanes away). I've heard people with AS say that they feel like they have a constant radio playing in their head. I kind of feel like that, except it plays way more than music. It's like my brain just cannot filter out certain sounds (like a NT seems to be able to) and I have to concentrate extremely hard to focus on and find the needle in the haystack.

Smell: It's very hard to decide whether this or hearing is my strongest sense but I think it's probably this. At times I envy those with a weak sense of smell. Most things are just so overwhelming to me that I get physically sick. I cannot for the life of me manage to use most perfumes/colognes or anything with a floral or cinnamon scent. I can use some fruity scents but not many, my soaps and air fresheners are basically limited to those that are "scented" like water/rain. Pretty much the only other scents I can tolerate smell "industrial" (alcohol, cleaners, petrol, etc.). I can't even hardly go to a restaurant or be in a house where lard/grease (plant or animal) is being used for cooking. When I do (am forced to) I have to take my body spray (which smells similar to spray paint), spray it on the sleeves of my jacket/sweater (and in the hood if I have one), and bury my face in them. So, I'm basically just huffing aerosol until we leave (which I presume is not healthy but it seems to be the only way that I can keep from vomiting while still "socializing").

I don't understand how some people can get through the day so easily. It simply amazes me.

my sense of smell is really annoying , if i eat something lets say a carrot and the person didnt wash there hands i will smell the onion or whatever they used while cutting the vegetables. i smell nearly everything i pickup.i use to live with a few friends and one time they caught me out because i was sniffing all my clothes lol. well they had a good laugh.

I have a poor sense of smell too. I'm hyper-sensitive to sound and touch...I have fine vision, but I hate bright lights....