Which sense of uours is the strongest?

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Since it seems most people on the spectrum have sensory related issues, which sense of yours would you say is the strongest/ or have the most problems with? Touch, sound, smell etc?

my strongest sense is hearing. i tend to remember what i hear and i love music. when i read, i read slowly because i hear the words in my head. the sense i have the most trouble with is touch. i don't like surprise touch. certain synthetic fabrics and wool bother me. i HATE to be kissed on the neck.

Smell, then hearing a close second...or maybe those are the ones that are the most annoying.

My strongest and what I struggle with most is sound, with touch being a close second. I have problems with these everyday but not as much with sight or smell (some scents make me really nauseous though, like dentist offices).

Sound, would be my strongest and also gives me the most grief, sounds is amplified greatly and it hurts, voices blend and during overload don't match their source, eg people look like they are on TV and the voices don't match like the audio is running slow.

My taste and touch might be equally as sensitive. My touch has good filters, while my taste never does.

My sense of touch is stronger than my hearing.
My hearing is stronger than my sense of smell. My hearing has poor filters.
My sense of smell is more sensitive than how I perceive light. Both senses has odd filters.

Taste or hearing bothers me the most. More so than my sense of touch. My sight sensitivity never bothered me.
My sense of smell is an odd one due to my chronic case of sinusitis and allergy rhinitis.


I can make all my senses tolerate everything that is thrown at. Except for taste, I never found a way to make my sense of taste tolerant to anything at all.

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I would guess sight. I have an auditory processing disorder.....so while my hearing isn't bad it does tend to "short out" on occasion or have trouble separating multiple sounds. However, recently I have developed a lot of very sensitive airborne allergies.....and my sense of smell has increased DRAMATICALLY!! !! !

My hearing and sense of what's hot. Everything is too loud for me and I'm almost always too hot. Hearing causes the most problems for me. It's very sensitive so I can hear things very far into the distance but I can't filter out noise nor ever get it to numb down. Makes going out anywhere in public horrible. Heat is my second but it's only a problem in summer. For the rest of the year I just need to wear less layers than anyone else - so people will be in coats and I'll just be in a t-shirt.

Smell has always been a strong sense for me. I identify a lot of stuff; people, places and things by smell.

Hearing usually gives me the most trouble.
Whether it's loud and and therefore very painful or just plain irritating like a leaf blower in the distance.
Sounds bother me all day long. I sleep with white noise to mask sounds at night.

Hearing for sure.

Hearing is my strongest sense. I can sometimes hear people blinking.

I can easily get overwhelmed by a lot of sound too but sometimes I love it. I put on my surround sound headphones and I can be completely immersed in a videogame or movie.

Hm, let's see here..

Sometimes my sense of smell just goes away completely and I don't notice until one day I smell something and realize I haven't smelled anything for awhile.

Taste is ... just.. what it is. Nothing notable about it.

My eyesight has always been better than 20/20 until recently, and now I have glaucoma (number one cause of irreversible blindness, has no cure) so it's slowly going to decline- so it's not my "strongest" sense if it's declining.

Touch... well yeah I hate it when people touch me and certain things bother me to touch them but I rarely overload or meltdown from it as compared to sounds, so I can't call this one my strongest sense either.

Yep, it's just as I suspected - my hearing is my strongest AND most troublesome sense. My meltdowns are more likely to be triggered by sound than anything else. It's also my greatest pleasure-sense.

When I was diagnosed with glaucoma and found out that there is no cure and treatments only last a short time each, I had to come to terms with the idea that I'm only 42 now and if I live into my 80s I will almost certainly be blind for a good part o my life. The first thing that I said to myself, and to others, was "it's okay, at least I will still have music".

I stand by that sentiment even now, with one eye already having a bad spot right in the center of my vision. Diagnosed just 14 months ago and one eye already has central vision impairment - but not from glaucoma - I got optic neuritis over the summer. I'm destined to lose my sight seems like. nothing to do but accept it. Its pretty neat that one of my special interests has ALWAYS been music, and specifically is a particular musical artist. It gives me something to stay positive about in that regard.

I do worry about there not being any way for me to really use my computer once I can't see though. I can't imagine sitting down and reaching forward and tapping a key on the keyboard to wake it up, and then being able to actually accomplish anything with it even if it speaks to me. And that would really annoy the rest of the family if I had to sit here and talk to the computer and have it talk back all day and night (computers is another one of my special interests, and life without internet would hardly be worth living. True story.). well anyway sorry for the off-topic.

Hearing is my strongest sense but I don't struggle with it too much

Sight. Just had my annual eye exam. At age 62, I still have 20/25 vision. I do need reading glasses, but both my distance and night vision are pretty good for an older dude.

Hearing gives me the most trouble.

Smell, taste, touch? No problems there.. I can eat and wear almost everything. People touching me doesn't bother me, unless they're being aggressive in some way.

Smell and definitely. After eating something, for example a sandwich with strong sauce in it, I can smell the odour of the sauce on my hands for HOURS afterwards even after washing my hands multiple times. I'll also smell the odour on objects I've touched and its really bothersome sometimes. Another annoying thing is that I slightly smell the odour of people on the objects they come in contact with.

Hearing comes second. I have a hard time sleeping especially at my father's appartment because of all the small mechanical and electrical noises from beyond the walls. The repetitive clock sound wich makes me go borderline crazy and the faint, constant rubbing noise wich I have yet to identify.

Sight seems to be my strongest sense. I need to wear sunglasses in the summer at all times, because everything seems to glare when I'm in the sun.