Proprioceptive HYPERsensitivity?

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I can't find any information on over-responsive proprioception, as opposed to under-responsive, but I definitely seem to have it.

The way my sensory integration dysfunction (or whatever it's called these days) affects me is over-responsiveness to just about everything except vestibular. For a while I thought vestibular was under-responsive and proprioceptive was "normal" because I have no trouble telling where my limbs are or what my body position is without using reference points or anything like that. I don't have very good manual dexterity, but otherwise I'm far from clumsy.

The thing is, I'm constantly aware of what my joints and muscles are doing at any given time--to the point where it's nagging. E.g, sitting certain ways is bothersome because my legs or back are in a position that feels wrong and I can't ignore it. This is also why I don't like gym exercise or yoga. There are other things, but I can't name them off the top of my head at 1:30 in the morning.

Has anybody else experienced this?

Yes! You sum it up so well. While traveling as a passenger I have to sit on my hands to control the positioning of my joints, except it never remains satisfactory.

I too have heightened proprioceptive sensitivity. Because of this sensitivity, I can't wear shoes that have a raised heel, even if it's only a few millimetres. If I do, I develop a severe postural distortion with associated myofascial pain syndrome. I had twenty years of pain until I discovered the solution a few months ago (I'm now 30). I also experience what you describe of being unable to get comfortable enough to be able to ignore how my body is feeling.

It fits with the Markrams' Intense World Theory that autists' proprioception should in fact always be hyper rather than hypo sensitive. Read the interview with Kamila Markram on Intense World Theory that is somewhere on this site, if you haven't already.

I also think it fits with intense world theory that any problem with integration is just a consequence of having taken in so much information, whether it's proprioceptive, sensory, empathic or whatever. In other words, the more you take in, the harder it is and the longer it takes to keep it all integrated.

When NTs see autists flailing madly all over the place, they decide that the autist just can't sense where his body is, but it's actually a heightened awareness of their body that is activating them in this way. It's just crazy that having too much going on can seem like you have a deficit.

There is this page here: https://www.sensory-processing-disorder ... ivity.html

I too think I have proprioceptive oversensitivity, I find it really stressing if I try to pull or push things, pick up things (engage muscles/joints), hold things, extend joints, and move quickly because my brain just starts massively over-firing and I feel sick.

When they pushed a diagnosis of schizophrenia down and up my various orifices, they said this symptom is called hyperreflexivity and it's a symptom of schizophrenia. And that's the ONLY reason I now have schizophrenia on all my records. Of course, they are possibly all full of s*** and I'm still asperger's, but the definition of this weird symptom with the even weirder name may be of your interest (even the idiot dr. who diagnosed me with schizophrenia spells it wrong in all the reports. I guaranty my spelling is right)
Hyperreflexivity as a condition of mental disorder: a clinical and historical perspective.