What are your sensory issues? (Any sense)

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Mine is loud noises. Just anything loud. When people put away silverware or vacuum, I can't stand it. I'm that guy who goes to see a rock concert and brings earplugs

Also, I can't stand if my feet touch things on the ground, or when people touch my feet.

What are some of your sensory issues?

For me the strongest sensory problems are tactile, followed by auditory, followed by visual. I also have very high pain tolerance and often get cuts or bruises without noticing them. I've also had some painful stuff done (slicing out a chunk of my ear cartilage at the thickest point) without discomfort. However I was highly bothered by the itching as it was healing.

My sensory problems have mostly gone away. I used to be very tactile, but my nose never worked very well. My eyes were great, and my hearing was good, but my listening was bad

I can't stand some sounds. Such as an engine belt squealing and dogs licking things

Repetitive sounds like car door chimes.

I have a VERY high pain tolerance.

Light touch really bugs me some times. Such as someone lightly touching my hair, light hugs or handshakes. Much prefer deep pressure.

I can't stand the feeling of greasy breading from fried food on my fingers.

For some reason the smell of ketchup can make me nauseous if I'm not eating at the time. Which is weird because I like ketchup. Flickering florescent lights drive me crazy!

Can't stand cigarette smoke

I also have a high pain tolerance. Not super high, but relatively high.

Jetbuilder, I also hate having grease, sand, or something sticky like syrup on my hands. In fact, I don't really use napkins anymore; if I have the slightest amount of grease or sauce on my hands, I just wash my hands

Does anyone else get shivers when they hear a rough scratching sound?

auditory- I can't stand high pitched squeaking noises like the ones that trains and buses (maybe older ones) sometimes make or older fax machines, for example. Also I get distracted easily by noises , even little noises when everything is quiet (like studying in a library- the sounds of others turning pages , sometimes breathing loudly or wheezing or chewing noises when eating). I read softly out loud in the library (if I have to go to one -usually I just study at home ) and talk to myself loudly , read aloud or sing hum to myself to cover up the noise my mom and sister make at home - so I guess I don't mind noise when I'm trying to focus on something as long as I'm the one making it ( btw I know this is not fair to other people)

olfactory-I can't stand the smell of canned tuna fish or salmon or of cold cuts (lunch meats). (I know this is a weird one). Also the smells of certain perfumes and cleaning products bother me

tactile/vestibular- I think I'm a sensory seeker in that I stim with string (which has to have a certain exact feeling- when I was a kid I did this almost literally constantly). I also stim by touching/ fiddling with things that have different textures. I also used to spin and walk in circles and I like swinging on swings in the park (vestibular).

Sensory overload- Sensory chaos, too many different sounds of different qualities and different kinds of smells in a crowded area is overwhelming and sometimes disgusting (lemon scented cleansers, perfume and meat combine to create a nauseating smell I discovered this at the grocery store). It's like when you mix many different colours of play-dough together and they make this murky greyish or brownish colour- some things are meant to remain separate- certain sounds and smells fit in to this category. The mixture is just too much for my system......a bombardment of stimuli.

I also have a high tolerance for some types of pain..........I can pick at my lips or pimples on my face or just scratch myself until I bleed and sometimes I even like the feeling of it. I know this is really unhealthy and I'm trying to stop this. Other types of pain........like dental pain I am definitely not hyposensitive to.

I'm very sensitive when it comes to auditory. Anything other than music bugs me pretty much. Heck, my son's voice deepened last year, and it drives me buggy! Course, can't very well tell him that, so it just grates usually. But I hate any little sounds. Oh the peace and quiet when everyone's out of the house.
I also can't stand light touches. Anyone slightly touching me will usually get pushed or smacked away. It just really irritates me.
I used to have trouble in any public place. All the overload. But have learned that if I get a pair of good earbuds and plug my mp3 player in and listen to music while I have to be out, it helps a lot. Lets me focus on what I need and get out.

I love loud music. Especially live music with a strong bass that you can feel through the floor/chair, though I rarely attend concerts. I use headphones with noise reduction and music on loud to drown out irritating noises during the day.

Generally the only time noise really bugs me is at night when I'm trying to sleep. I cannot fall asleep if there's any kind of noise (that's not constant like a fan or a fridge), including music (so there goes my usual tactic). At night I am definitely super-sensitive to sound. Television/music, footsteps, banging, metal clinking, voices, etc. The worst is if there's a sudden loud noise right as I'm on the edge of sleep, because that'll jolt me wide awake for at least the next few minutes. I don't think anyone's ever vacuumed while I tried to sleep before, but lawnmowers are a horrible thing to be woken up by (why do people feel the need to mow their lawn at 7 AM on Saturday morning?). Also the garbage truck, or obnoxious birds cawing right outside my window.

Bright light makes me sneeze if my eyes aren't adjusted to it, but I'm otherwise fine with it. Except, again, when I'm trying to sleep. Sunlight through closed blinds is totally fine, but light coming through a crack under my door is very much not. Ditto to those sunbeams that sneak through cracks in the blinds to shine right into your eyes.

I'd say I have very sensitive taste buds. Can't stand anything hot/spicy at all (mouth = on fire), and I tend to gravitate towards bland foods (meat/potatoes/vegetables with little to no seasonings). Luckily I grew up in a household where this wasn't a problem.

Smells are weird. I don't have any specific problems with them and I don't think my sense of smell is particularly strong. If anything it's gotten worse over time. When I was younger the first thing I would do with anything, especially food, was smell it. When I have a problem with a smell, it's usually in retrospect and it's never a specific smell. It's the underlying smell of a place - the kind that's always present in the background, that seeps into your clothes and you smell it for hours after you leave. It's the reason I'll never work fast food again if I can help it.



^This is pretty much me.

1)Hypersensitivity and sometimes Hyposensitivity to tactile stimuli in that I can feel textures others aren't as able to sense, which leads me to constantly touch objects or avoid certain textures.
2)Hypersensitivity to being touched (by people). I tend to recoil when someone reaches out their hand, knowing it means I will be touched in some manner (being touched feels like simultaneously being stabbed repeatedly and set ablaze).
3)Some strange (possibly vestibular) sensory issue which results in the car and trees/everything outside appearing to move despite being at a red light or stop sign. I also will sometimes start to stumble/almost lose balance even when standing perfectly still.
4)Hypersensitivity to light
5)Hyposensitivity to loud sounds/ Hypersensitivity to some sounds (usually the ones nobody else notices).
6a)Proprioceptive issues.
6b)Pressure/Weight: I absolutely love to have weight/pressure exerted on my torso and sides (the back is fine, as long as there's also pressure on the other two regions).
7)Temperature: difficulty in regulating body temperature (I'm always burning hot, even wearing a T-shirt and shorts in -36 degrees Fahrenheit winter weather), which makes warm weather all the more intolerable.
Pain: most pain doesn't bother me (I've broken a leg and several ribs and didn't notice much more than mild discomfort), but some pain persists (after the leg fracture improperly healed). Being touched by someone and intestinal pain are the only forms of extreme pain that exists for me.
9)Taste: I can taste the plastic container food was stored in or any contact with plastic wrap the food had. I can also taste the silverware while eating, along with any perfumes/colognes the cooking staff at a restaurant is wearing and whether or not they touched the food with their fingers or gloves (I hate "lab glove" taste).

Mine are primarily auditory and tactile; I have to wear earplugs to my mother's church as the rock band is extremely painful (don't ask why they have a rock band in a church, I don't know - it's not my church!), noises like vacuum cleaners (even the little handheld ones), toilets flushing, the dog barking, or my mom yelling up the stairs are all painful and irritating.

As for touch, I can't stand light contact like someone brushing or bumping me, firm pressure is good so long as its concentrated about my core and evenly distributed (i.e just squeezing my hand doesn't cut it). I'm fairly tolerant of pain everywhere except for my scalp. Brushing my hair is a nightmare, and I hate letting anyone else near it with a brush because they invariably cause me grievous injury. I also have a problem with a lot of food textures; anything squishy, slimy, too cold/too hot, too chewy or anything mixed together is intolerable, so needless to say I'm a very fussy eater.

Smell isn't as bad as the other two, but it's noticeably more sensitive than the rest of my family's; it adds to the limiting of my palette, as well as making chores like loading the dishwasher or taking the trash out decidedly unpleasant. My sense of smell and taste are very closely connected, so I often taste things that have a very pungent smell, like hand sanitizer and cat litter... not a lot of fun.