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Apple_in_my_Eye
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21 Mar 2011, 5:56 pm

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In the past, I might've said that my sensory stuff has improved some, but lately, I've realized that I spent a lot of years in a state of continuous, partial overload, and had forgotten what it felt like to be not-significantly-overloaded.

I've recently come to this realization too. The more I remove overloading influences from my life, the more I notice that the overload was there in the first place.

I wonder if that's the case for a lot of people; the usual emphasis seems to be away from internal stuff like that; seems like there could be a lot people may walking around in that state and not and know why certain abilities are off-line (or cutting-in-and-out), or why they're exhausted all the time, can't sleep, and on and on (not that there can't be other reasons for those 'symptoms,' though).



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21 Mar 2011, 6:04 pm

Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Verdandi wrote:
Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
In the past, I might've said that my sensory stuff has improved some, but lately, I've realized that I spent a lot of years in a state of continuous, partial overload, and had forgotten what it felt like to be not-significantly-overloaded.

I've recently come to this realization too. The more I remove overloading influences from my life, the more I notice that the overload was there in the first place.

I wonder if that's the case for a lot of people; the usual emphasis seems to be away from internal stuff like that; seems like there could be a lot people may walking around in that state and not and know why certain abilities are off-line (or cutting-in-and-out), or why they're exhausted all the time, can't sleep, and on and on (not that there can't be other reasons for those 'symptoms,' though).


Yeah, also panic attacks, anxiety, frustration/short temper, etc.

I keep finding that I remove something, find that it cuts down on overload I didn't realize was overload, and then trying to do it again is difficult because of the overload and how apparent it is. I wonder how much this contributes to long-term burnout.



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22 Mar 2011, 12:44 pm

My auditory issues faded in my mid-twenties. I am forty now. I can tolerate fireworks now. I spent fourth of July on the National Mall when I was 25 and enjoyed the show. Unthinkable when I was a kid, when I spent every 4th in the shower in an interior bathroom with my gun-shy dog. Balloons don't bother me too much now. I think the little bit of aversion I still have to them is a remnant of when I couldn't stand them. Metal against metal still bothers me a little bit. I feel I can follow verbal instructions reasonably well now, and I can understand a conversation in a crowded restaurant as well as the next person. I have a little bit of problem with phone conversations and understanding dialogue in movies. I mainly had auditory processing issues as a kid. I also always wore a hat. I still like my hat, so I guess that visual processing hasn't changed.



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22 Mar 2011, 1:03 pm

I hope this happens to me. I'm already not as tactile sensitive as I was when I was a toddler/primary school student; now just for the rest of the tactile sensitivity, as well as basically any other sensory system sensitivity, to go away.