aspergers + braces?

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I had braces for about 3 years because I really needed them to take care of an overbite and crooked bottom teeth. They were the metal ones, as that's all that existed when I had braces, and the thing I really hated was the glue that was used because it tasted pretty nasty. They also hurt when I had them tightened, to the point where it hurt to eat dinner on the evening of those appointments. I had a retainer that I wore at night for several years as well as a wire glued to my lower teeth until it came off.

Because of having braces, I had to have my wisdom teeth taken out because with the way they were comming in, they would have ruined what the braces did, if they didn't become abcessed and infected like what happened to people I know. There's no correlation between Aspergers and crooked teeth because everyone else I knew who had braces were NT's.

I was wearing braces on my teeth for 2,5 years - I got them when I was 14 and I got rid of them when I was 17. I got used to them but I must admit that the first week was a pure horror - my teeth were as loose as if I suffered from scurvy when they were changing their position in tooth-sockets. It hurt and I almost couldn't eat with an exception of paps.

I had braces for eight years as a kid (long before my AS diagnosis). Then my wisdom teeth started to come in, and threatened to knock my molars out of alignment.

I got used to having strangely shaped chunks of metal in my mouth surprisingly easily considering how sensitive I am to having cold foods in my mouth. I guess it's like wearing glasses or a prosthetic limb: your brain learns to integrate the artificial part if you use it as an extension of your body.

I'd advise you to get your teeth straightened one way or another not for cosmetic reasons, but to align your bite so your face and neck muscles grow in straight. Chiropractic problems cause a wide variety of neurological disorders that are usually minor in themselves, but collectively can be seriously debilitating.
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Some see the glass is half full, some see its half empty, I see the approximate ratio of the volume of the liquid to the volume of the container is 0.5

I had braces in 4th grade and then again from junior year of high school until freshman year of college. Normally something like that would annoy me, but since they're pretty even across my mouth, it didn't. Now, had I had either top or bottom, I wouldn't have been able to stand it.

I wore braces between the ages of 11-15. I hated them because I had to give up a lot of foods I enjoyed because they would get stuck in my braces.

Tim

I'm all for getting everything healthy - which is the annoying part. It's just that I don't (necessarily) want to go through extra just for cosmetic reasons, especially if that "extra" is metal glued to my teeth

Well I guess it seems though that most people don't have trouble with the "sensory overload" part ... even though I still think I would totally freak out from it...