Hypersensitivies

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What are your hyper sensitivities? I think my most extreme one is to light, when the sun is rising or falling I can't drive facing it, because its so blinding.

Skin sensitivity has probably given me the most grief over time. I still find washing my hair a traumatic experience because of the whole nausea/scalp crawling sensation which no one really understands and leaves me either melting down or on the verge of a meltdown. And I'm allergic to practically every product that "normal" people use everyday, such as soap and shampoo.

I'm also light sensitive and need to wear tinted lenses.

Sound. I have misophonia plus crazy batlike hearing. TV on a normal volume is too loud. People taking is too loud. Music is too loud, air traffic is too loud. The sounds of people around me is too loud. On and on. I can hear electricity and airflow. I can hear clocks ticking from the other side of the room.
Recently I considered getting generic hearing aides and turning them down way low, but I'll try noise cancelling headphones first.
I'm extremely sensitive to touch and hate to be touched in general. I'm also light sensitive, but I deal with that a bit better. Plus no matter what I do my stomach freaks out, if that counts. Waiting on gastroscopy.

Mine is smells, mostly. Perfumes, detergents, rubbery/latexy smells, cooked meats, certain people's body odors... I could go on. It's not just that I find them gross, I'll actually feel queasy or lightheaded or my sinuses will start to burn. I can't even be in the same room as a person who wears too much cologne, and few things are more horrifying than having to use a dirty public bathroom or, *shudder* a porta-potty.

I'm also sensitive to touch - firm, purposeful, invited touch I'm good with and even enjoy, but light, fleeting touch makes my skin crawl. And I HATE being poked and tickled. I'm very particular about clothing too. I refused to wear denim at all until I was about 13, and now that I'm in my 30's I rarely wear jeans, and have, like, 2 pairs I can actually stand. I hate sleeping in clothes too - I don't think I've even owned pajamas since I was in high school, and even then I only wore them to lounge around in in the morning.

Sound and light I'm generally good with (though I hate too-loud TVs and there's something I find very irritating about talk radio) but if I'm in trying-to-stave-off-meltdown mode, nothing beats alone time in a dark, quiet room. Free of icky smells, of course

I have sensitive skin, polyesters drive me nuts especially nylon. i also have sensitive hearing so loud music and loud voices, clangs and such actually hurt me......its kind of annoying really

Light- I frequently wear my Riddick-style biker goggles (super dark lenses).

Sound- usually have earplugs in to block out the noises coming at me from all directions.

Touch, which is why I love touching things.

I am really hypersensitive. All of mine are disliking jeans or labels in clothing, shaving or my hair being cut, people hugging me unless I hug them first, direct contact/people standi really close to me and being in large crowds, which is why I hate going to shopping malls and on the underground.

A major one is noise. I really hate loud noises, especially alarms, hovers, school bells, shouting and people raising their voices, also included is very bright lights. I much prefer being in the dark and peace and quiet, to be honest. That concludes my hypersensitivity.

Mostly sound and clothing discomforts. Especially when I was a child, clothing woes dominated; there were always problems with garments and labels and types of fabric. I remember my mother getting pissed off at me because she thought I was just being a brat for screaming and squirming my way out of a new dress she had mail-ordered, but what I couldn't express at the time was that I couldn't help it, the dress was both scratchy and too tight and I was becoming frantic to get out of it, not trying to be "bratty." I was serious freaking, and I was only something like four or five years old.

I've always had to make sure all my clothing fits right, is comfortable, and is in the correct place before I can get on with anything else in life. It's not OCD, as I'm not diagnosed with that, it's about literal physical discomfort. If a seam is hitting me in the wrong place, a label, or if something is riding up or riding down, I feel so physically uncomfortable that I've got to put it right before anything else can happen. The same as if anyone else sat down on a really hard toy truck or something, you're so uncomfortable you'd have to remove it. I have the same reaction to minor clothing displacements even though to a person without sensitivities that would seem like nothing compared to sitting on the toy truck.

The same with small particles -- if I sit on a couch or lie in my bed and there is the TINIEST bit of grit, dirt, breadcrumb, or grain of sand from somewhere, and I mean just ONE speck, not a bunch of it, it just takes one -- I can feel that single speck if my bare skin is touching it.

At home in the summer I tend to be in just underwear, and I sleep in underwear. If even the tiniest particle of anything happens to be between my bare thigh and the sheet I'm lying on, or the couch I'm sitting on, I feel it acutely and very uncomfortably. Seriously, it can be smaller than a grain of sand and only ONE of it there, but I feel it poking into my skin as if it's a much larger hard spiky item like an actual sharp rock or jagged pebble. It's like the princess and the pea except I can feel things bothering my skin that are practically microscopic.

Noise is a bad one; I can tolerate a noisy environment for a while if I've prepared myself to do so and I know it's going to end, but even with that, I can't carry on a conversation in a noisy place, it makes me feel like I can't cope, can't order my thoughts let alone speak the words. I get overwhelmed and I start to feel like my head's going to explode.

How bad my sensitivities are based on how much stimuli I've received and my stress levels.

When they get bad, I get some significant issues with sound. Visual stimuli that is random or otherwise chaotic is also a big problem. Strangely, compared to the baseline, I don't get nearly as much of an issue with tactile sensation as many other persons on the spectrum seem to have.

I can sleep exposed to natural light but if I wake up with sunlight in my face it is the worst feeling. I normally sneeze when I look at the sun. I am hypersensitive to sunlight.

Sound is not a problem for me. I can listen a whole day on high volume to heavy songs. I have so much emotions and tension in my body and soul so music is like therapy for me!
The sound of motorcycles bother me much though.

Also some material is very uncomfortable looking at, thinking about and especially touching. I always want to use plastic bags. Even when I moved I put all my stuff in small plastic bags and my grandmother told me we need to use the cartons at least for the plates and other kitchen stuff. So I left the apartment while she was doing it.
I do not really like jeans but on special occasions I can use them. It is not a big problem.

If I am in a bright mood touching me is okay but if I am a little bit upset or stressed I do not like being touched upon.