Having extra-sensitive senses IS awesome!

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It makes the world hurt in my case.

Give and take.

I can't stand many foods because I can taste the chemicals in them. I don't know how most products even sell...they taste like crap, but the masses consume them so I figure either my AS makes me sensitive enough to detect the subtle differences or that the masses have never had "good" food and don't realize what it should taste like.

Sights and sounds....give and take. Sometimes I think I have an advantage, other times I think it's a hindrance. Having little noises people ignore drive you crazy isn't a good thing in my book.

I'm way too sensitive to everything - My sense of touch is far more heightened than it should be, to the point where it's almost debilitating. I'll even feel sensations from the air touching my skin (like tingling, almost). I'll even get goosebumps when it's 70 degrees out. As a result, I have to wear winter clothes for most of the year, not only from being cold, but to keep me from getting overstimulated. I have a pretty strong sense of smell - I too can detect rotting milk - it's why I don't drink it!

My sense of hearing is pretty strong - I get distracted by hardly distinguishable little humming noises. And I can't sleep with the air conditioner or fan on because it keeps me awake. Taste is pretty strong too - this one isn't a problem, as I eat pretty much anything I'm not allergic to, except I always feel like I have bad breath and will compulsively brush my teeth.

My eyesight is very strong - it's one of the things I'm happiest about, being an artist. I can take apart colors pretty easily, and I can apparently mix paint colors in ways many people wouldn't be able to figure out.

It's both a blessing and a curse. But I guess we just have to deal, right?

I'm pretty hypo-sensitive in most areas except a few. Sometimes I hate to be touched, other times it feels really good. I think my smell is sensitive. If someone has B.O. I CAN'T be around them. If I have it then I will stop whatever I'm doing and look for deodorant. And if anyone comes up to me I tell them not to get too close because I smell bad. Luckily that doesn't happen very often. I HATE using public restrooms because of the smell. My hearing is hypo sensitive. I'm always saying what and I really really love loud music. My sight is somewhere between normal and hypo sensitve. I remember my Dad had a hard time to make me stop staring into the sun, when I was a kid. For some reason I liked to.

I am very sensitive to light and sound, I can't go into casinos because the lights
and the constant blinking sound feels like a icepick is jabbing into my temples.
Smells and the feel of certain textures are a problem too, I can only wear cotton,
no wool or unnatural fabric. With smells one of the biggest things is cigarettes, on
people it smells like a toilet, I can smell it while driving on the highway even if the
other car is a kilometer ahead. I wish I didn't have these sensitivities, life would
be alot easier, I can't go to places like malls or crowded places like night clubs
with their flashing lights and loud bass.

Sensitive to everything even air pressure changes and humidity. I can do some interesting hyper focus things involving vision too and can clearly see things others don't i don't have much control over it tho, my uncoscious reactions are very very fast, I'll catch things falling that others wouldn't see til it hit the ground but in an actual reaction test where I know it's coming (the one where you catch the measuring stick) they're well below average. Very strange.

My sense of smell is driving me nuts at the moment, I had a meltdown on the bin in my kitchen cos it stinks as the lid didn't close properly. I spazzed out on it and kicked it into a new shape and now the lid closes perfectly, so that worked out well

I was really good at wine and whisky tasting without much effort too.

Have quite a few problems with noise. I live next to a main road and thetraffic noise in the morning can lead to meltdowns if I don't close the window fast enough. Kids screaming makes me want to kill and dogs barking too. It's easier to handle now I know why it gets to me more than anyone else around me though.

I have extremely good hearing, especially in the high range. I can still hear very faint, high-pitched sounds that other people my age can't.

As a musician, this was extremely beneficial. But now that I no longer make my living as a musician, I think it still allows me to appreciate music in a way that many other people can't - because I can detect more overtones, so I hear a more complex sound.

(We're not even going to talk about my hypersensitivity to touch - because so far, that's just been unpleasant.)

I definitely do not think my hypersensitive hearing is a good thing! It can be beneficial, say, outside when I want to listen to wildlife, but overall I wish I had normal hearing. However my hyposensitivity to certain types of pain certainly comes in handy - I'm a fan of tattoos and piercings

Meh it is a mixed blessing for me. I like being able to spot other air traffic before anyone else. I like being able to instantly see the one damaged component on a circuitboard with 1000 components.

Hearing my neighbors footsteps as if they they were drum beats... in the middle of the night is not so nice. Being food selective because so many foods taste like crap? Not so cool. Being annoyed by bright lights? Not cool.

Many months ago I heard a sound coming from my car's brakes whenever I would stop. I knew that the sound wasn't normal but on the few times someone else rode in my car when I would brake I would ask them and they couldn't hear it. It was really obvious to me.

When I took my car to the mechanic he said "If you can hear what you're describing I guarantee you're going to have to replace the brakes entirely." I said okay.

The mechanic drove it down the street and came back and said he hadn't heard anything, but would still take a look at it.

A half-hour later he came out of the garage and said "I don't know how you heard that that early, but you were right. You just saved yourself a lot of money."

I can see very well just with the stars light. Actually sometime I don't remember to put up the light on the car at night because I just see "better" at night. It's cool, I can crawl without being viewed.

I act as a kind of "sniffer dog" in my household - I get used to track down the source of a smell, or to see if something is safe to eat. It seems to work, as we rarely get food poisoning etc. It seems a useful talent. I also get deployed to find things that have dropped onto the floor, or identify strange noises - the latter not always so successful, as although I can hear stuff that others can't, I may not be able to pinpoint the exact location of the noise...
All this is great, but if there is a noise that I cannot stand, or a really bad smell, then it's not so much fun...

I was out of commission a couple of days ago from sensory overload. light and noise get to me, and my sense of smell picks up things that most other people can't detect, so 95% of perfumes smell awful to me and most of them give me bad headaches.

today though, my very sensitive sight DID save me from hitting a silver car that ran a red light on a drizzly overcast day. I saw it at the edge of my peripheral vision in time to slam on the brakes, which left a couple of inches between my fender and its driver side doors. perhaps it didn't prevent death, but I avoided the possible injury of myself and my child (it would have been nice to make the other driver replace my car, though).

I often use it to eavesdrop. Sometimes even from the other end of the house, believe it or not. That's just how sensitive my hearing is.