What's your sensory issue?

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Visual -- CRT monitors (thank the gods for LCD, tablets, and laptop monitors). Flourescent Lighting, even the 7 year energy saver bulbs bother me some.
Sounds -- Loud Sudden, Short abrupt noises -- firecrackers, gunshots, a car back-firing.
Smells -- Certain perfumes, Chanel no.5 and I have to leave the room or suffer an episode.

Smells really, really bother me. Perfumes, pungent smelling toiletries, greasy and spicy foods, cigarette smoke, beer, body odor, cleaning products, dryer sheets, restaurants, and smelly feet make me nauseous. This is very stressful.

Noises: sirens, vacuum cleaners, fire alarms, helicopters and screaming.

Textures: clothing: wool, acrylic, lace, spandex, and 100% polyester; food: bananas, over cooked pasta, lettuce, and low fat cream cheese.

Sight: strong sunlight and strobe lights.

It can be really hard to feel what is bothering me or how things make me feel. Usually I just find myself starting a meltdown... Not really knowing what exactly caused it. It is only when I actually think about them and most of what everyone is the same for me..

Things that thrust me in to a meltdown are easier to realize.
It seems car horns are the worst. Why do they make cars so the horn blow when they lock up? Worse why do so many people think it is alright to blast their car horn in public places and by apartment buildings?

Loud motorcycles and automobiles.

A new employ works near me. He smacks when he eats...

Standing in line at the grocery, and the person behind bumps into me.....

People breaking traffic laws - it gets to me like a horn blast. They draw all my attention because I have no idea what they are going to do.. Does that classify as a sensory issue?

One thing I hope does not bother people - When riding my bike on a quite shared path, I ring my bell, way back, before I pass. It seems that most people appreciate it. Some just do not show any emotions... No one has done it to me..They just pass without a warning and startle me...

When I was young being in a room with a TV with the high pitch whine would cause pain. I don't know if they still bother me, I avoid them. Thinking about - none of my girl friends watched TV either...

OldHFA,

I can identify with the eating thing. A coworker does it and I have to earphones w will ackerman ( calm new age artist ) or I got totally nuts.

My primary one is Sunlight, which makes my optic nerves and skin feel like it is being fried, and makes everything else smell almost as if it were burning.

Noise as well but that one is extremely bi-polar since I am getting better at ignoring it. There are very specific sounds that put me in convulsions (imagine Alex from Clockwork orange and the Beethoven 9th symphony) and are just so painful! Usually things like people eating nuts/chips, saxophone, crinkling of plastic bags, certain people's voices (a specific frequency, usually women-less often old men - who have really soft or calm ones, eg. death scenes, romance, etc. It drives me crazy!) and lots of people talking at the same time though this last one I can usually filter. For most everything else, I will randomly jerk when I am not imagining slamming an axe into the wall. Have even gotten sick a few times.

Heat is another one I am wary of, though I am not annoyed by it. I just seem to have a subconscious desire to keep a low body heat. Cold food, not let people hug me, sleep on the floor, take off my pants whenever I am safe from being caught, etc... Random other quirks though happen. Like I cannot stand when someone is walking behind me or something at my right if there is nothing/no one on my left.