sensory issues all or nothing?

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When an aspie has sensory issues such aus visual audio touch or taste..does that mean that every aspie has issues in all cases or can one have only two and be ' neorologically normal' with the rest ?

"can one have only two and be ' neorologically normal' with the rest ?"
Yes.

Last edited by JellyCat on 27 Apr 2013, 4:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Every person with AS is different. One may be sensitive to sound, another may be sensitive to light, and another may be hypo-sensitive to sensory input instead of hyper-sensitive (that is, under-stimulated instead of over-stimulated and not noticing them at all). Some people with AS don't have problems with sensory input at all. Also, being sensitive to sound, for example, may mean being sensitive to all noise, or just sensitive to certain kinds of noises. In my case I can usually tune out continuous background noise, but I'm immensely disturbed by sudden or loud sounds, and the same is true with certain smells but not all smells.

There are no rules other than that everyone's different, so if you know someone with AS and want to learn about them, it's best to ask what kinds of things they are sensitive to, if any.

When I was younger I used to FREAK OUT when people blew up balloons near me. I was really inconsolable unless they stopped. These days the only thing I'm hypersensitive to is sunlight. Makes my eyes water like crazy.

But I have read so many post in which people are sensitive to touch? I thought maybe this is a common thing that all aspies share..

Many are hypersensitive to touch, many are hyposensitive and there are many who have touch senstivity that's just average. Hypersensitivity to touch can cause a lot of problems with basic stuff, e.g. with dressing, washing, eating, so it does get discussed a lot.

Could you please restate the question? I'm not sure I'm reading this correctly.

Yes, I only have sensory issues with certain sounds. Everything else I am neurologically normal with. I have underaverage sense of smell but they say that everybody has something they are uneraverage with, like some people have weaker hearing than most or weaker eyesight. My eyesight is not that good, but not bad enough to need glasses all the time, just for reading things from a distance.

Sometimes when I am tired my eyes hurt from natural light or very white sky, and I squint pretty bad, through fear of sneezing from the light if I didn't squint, and that makes me anxious when out in public because I hate sneezing out in public (but that's a different subject). Otherwise, light doesn't bother me, and when I'm indoors I like to open all the curtains as wide as they can go in the daytime, and when it starts to get dark in the evenings I turn on all the lights. Sometimes people come in and see every single light in sight is on and go, ''oh, it's very bright in here!''

I'm sensitive to light, and have a very poor sense of smell. My wife is sensitive to noise and light.

Funny, I got the same, but the thought never even crossed my mind that it could be due to sensory problems.Do you have a photic sneeze reflex as well?

I think the grammar of the OP is a little confusing... But there may be two questions involved:

1.Do all aspies have sensory issues?

2. If a particular aspie has sensory issues with one sense, does that mean he or she has sensory issues with all senses?

The answers are: no and no.

1. When you've met one aspie, you've met just one aspie. This is a very heterogenous population.

2. If someone has an issue with light, they may have only an issue with light, or they may have issues with several or all senses.

I had many sensory issues continually as a child with all senses, now I have problems with sound much of the time, light often, touch and smell sometimes and taste rarely.

When I have sensory issues today, they always seem to be on the hyper side, never the hypo side, though I know this is not true for everyone.
EDITED to add: I just realized this is not true--I sometimes have very weak senses of taste, smell and (much more rarely) touch. I had not thought of them as connected with this before, just as transient states...

I also notice that I get very strong hypersensitivities when I am exhausted. The more tired I am, the more likely I am to have these problems and the more intense they are likely to be. This can lead to a pretty bad state when I wake up in the night and find that I am having tactile problems and these prevent me getting back to sleep--then the insomnia makes all my sensory issues stronger. It can be pretty miserable.