Whoelse has issues with sensory overloads (noises,smells,etc

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At my store where I work we are doing remodel which involves construction workers drilling, use of jack hammers, etc. Like tonight I had to help with clean underneath the shelves. I of course bought me earplugs which helped quite a bit. One of the associates got a bit shirty with me having to use them. Told him the noises bother me quite me a bit which causes me to have myself sensory overload. The buffoon went on to say that "the noises are not that bad."
Gonna be a interesting 2 weeks at work.

Don't you wish, even if just for one minute, they could experience the world as we do?
They would have themselves the biggest meltdown!

But their biggest 'punishment' is that they miss all the beauty our sensitive senses give us:-)

I wish you all the best with the non-sensate!

i so understand what you guys mean. when i was little there were things people sayid i saw different, but i now i know i see them beautifully. not just things though, also ideas such as stories and interpretations it's a burden and a gift to have aspergers.

Even though I don't really have sensory issues besides taste, I just don't get how some NT's can't grasp that EVERYONE perceives the world differently from each other. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp. People with glasses see different than those with perfect vision. People with hearing aids hear differently than those with perfect hearing. Is it really that hard to understand that some people might have sensitive hearing or have sensitive sight? Everyones brains are tuned differently. Hell, we don't even taste the same tastes or see the same colors.

Sometimes I feel it's because these people are not that smart, but that just might be from frustration.

Actually yes, debilitatingly so. This is the reason I cannot drive, the amount of things constantly happening all at once causes my brain to shut down from information overload, usually due to a mixture between noise, light, and most visual stimulation. What makes it worse, I have to wear glasses, which only brightens the light and I have no sunglasses that will work with them.

People just have no idea. I've actually been told that I'm just "being lazy" about driving, they fail to realize that I myself have recognized the danger in having me drive (by way of experience, mind you), and have chosen the responsible and sensible course of action to not do it, not just for my sake, but for other drivers as well.

I could do fine if it were absolutely nothing but the road, I control a vehicle rather well, but the second something else is added, I'm screwed.

Yes, I have a huge problem with this. This (the overload, too many sounds and smells at once in particular) is my biggest sensory issue.

Yes loud noises bother & irritate me. Bright lights also bother me, as well as smells, but loud noises sometimes seem to bother me the most of all & it just depends. Sometimes NTs with migraines understand about sensitivity to noises and bright lights.

Oh yes! We had remodelling at our job so there was that coupled with the fact I work at the movies where everything is manic ALL the time, I was sweating and getting chest pains from holding back my emotions. All my coworkers now think I have medical problems and take care of me. It's irksome but it's better than the uninformed people (choosing words carefully) that you seem to work with.
Although when I was smaller, whenever I said something hurt my ears, my family told me to suck it up. So yeah, there's that.

I can be severely overloaded by noise, particularly from two-stroke engines; mowers, chainsaws, trailbikes and the like. I call them "infernal combustion engines". Also, the sound of some diesel engines, aeroplanes and even older cars (V8s), really stresses me out. I find the cyclic nature of these sounds repulsive, and if it goes on for too long, nauseating. I sometimes find the noise in shopping centres uncomfortable; all those feet, chattering, and awful muzak bouncing off hard surfaces.

On the flip side, loud natural noises like frog calls, birds, surf, and thunder storms are mostly ok, even wonderful. And, this is weird - I play in a band, and it's quite loud, but that's enjoyable. Even weirder - when I am absolutely focused with work on my computer, I sometimes CAN'T hear anything. I even missed a fire drill once - didn't hear it.

I found a pair of "Class 5" earmuffs recently, to replace the earplugs I often wear. I wear my earmuffs every day, when I, or anyone else around me, is using noisy tools; vacuum cleaner, drill. I want to be able to hear birdcalls in my dotage.

I love my tinted lenses when it comes to light sensitivity stuff.

Sometimes I think the whole NT world is one institutionalized meltdown, and occasionally we simply respond "appropriately."

My thing is problems with scents and odors. I used to think I just had allergies. But the things that make me sneeze aren't really things people are allergic too. The detergent aisle at the grocery store is the worst. I can't even breathe on that aisle, and I didn't know that others weren't affected the same way until fairly recently. Other smells that set me off in paroxysms of sneezing are garbage, perfumes, cigarettes, urine, chlorine, and gasoline, just to name a few. My brother used to swear that as children I sneezed every morning just to annoy him. I know now that the gas heater we sat in front of during breakfast was giving off an odor that can set me off to this day.

I have a little bit of problem with other senses -- I have food texture problems, itchy fabrics problems, loud noises issues, eye glare -- but they aren't nearly as pronounced as the nose thing.