How to know if I have sensory issues?

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yeah, ive been wondering about this too.

I'm sensitive in general my senses are pretty fine tuned. though im not so bothered by smells.

I guess bright lights and noises are the ones that cause me the most distress - particularly NOISE. grrrrr im so aggravated right now because my stupid neighbour decided to have her bf come round and he's been banging the door next to my room like there's no tomorrow. im already pissed off as hell that she didnt warn me he was coming nor bothered to introduce him and i have a random guy living in my house and it feels like he's intruding and im just angry. he's also laughed at me for asking them not to bang the door saying he didn't bang it. I f*****g hate the disrespect.


sorry, err... so yeah, i guess i have sensory issues? would that be considered a sensory issue lol im still in the waiting list so havent been "officially" diagnosed. i think ill feel better once i know for sure wtf is wrong with me.

Here's a really good article previously posted here by someone else:
https://www.spdstar.org/basic/subtypes-of-spd

People tend to think that sensory issues are just being oversensitive or undersensitive, but there are a lot of types of sensory issues in that article that are neither oversensitivity nor undersensitivity.

The one the jumps out at me the most is sensory craving, which I think, for many people, is strongly related to stimming even though one might be neither oversensitive nor undersensitive.

Very good article. One thing that it did not mention however, which I experience often, is sensory looping. For example, if I touch a texture that I am sensitive to, even after I stop touching it, I will continue to feel that sensation of that texture on my skin sometimes for a long time. And sometimes I will hear my alarm clock alarm beeping well after I have turned it off. It's like the sensory stimuli gets caught in a loop in my brain and it takes a very long time for my brain to process the stimuli so I continue to experience it for awhile even after the stimuli itself has stopped. Sometimes is last for just a few minutes but there have been times when the loop has lasted for hours and on rare occasions, even a couple of days.

Yes, your brain is having trouble processing that sensory information and it takes it a long time to work it out.

I have issues with 6 of the subtypes mentioned in that article and never knew I was so different. Many people in my mom’s family have super sensitive senses too so it just seemed normal to me. I think many of them fall somewhere on the spectrum or BAP and don’t know it.