Which of your senses causes you the most problems?

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For me it was always sound and taste as I was growing up.
But now it's more sound and light.

I don't really have any sensory problems.

Tim

Sound and taste for me as well.

Light and sound. and Touch.

Sort of smell, and taste.

Actually, all of them.

sound and touch

Sounds, sounds, sounds! Two people talking at once just melds together and I cannot stand it, I just want to cover my ears! Also,cars with the bass on heavy goes right to my gut,it is a horrid feeling, and it is always the worst music..so it is sounds that make me very uneasy...a crying baby does not make me go off the edge, and neither does certain rock music..

Smell and touch bother me as well, but not to the extent that others do. They're more easily avoidable. No one touches me and I can tell them to piss off if they try. Whereas I can never escape noise etc.

sound for me too... if more than 1 person taks i cant understand and also if ONE person talks to fast i cant process it and i just forget what they just said or asked me.

Touch - I don't like being touched, it makes me even more rigid and nervous [when I was younger I was just terrified, I used to run away from people who wanted to kiss me (you know, latins want to touch all the time) ]

Sounds - Loud and/or sudden noises really disturb me.
Two or more people talking at the same time confuse me.

Light - I have problems with light, especially during spring and summer when the sun shines brighter

Mainly light.

Hearing, usually a benefit. Some high pitched stuff, lights, that kind of thing, gets to me some, but that's what the iPod is for, to drown that out.

Smell only gets to me when I can smell cigarettes at the front of my apartment coming through the window. If anything, it is useful, haven't had any real overload problems from it. Same with taste. Well, that is unless something smells really bad, then it gets me close to throwing up, I have a hard time "ignoring" it.

Touch, not too bad.

Sight is the only one with a real problem. I've got a stigmatism (spl? too lazy to google this morning), but other than that my eyes are pretty sensitive. Bright light really gets to me, specifically sunlight. Had to deal with that on Sunday, walked out from underneath an overhang at a restaurant, almost immediately had to turn around because of how badly the direct light hurt my eyes.

Edit: figured out why sound isn't an issue. Unless I go from a zero-state to a one-state (absence of an annoying sound to presence of it) I won't notice it. If I'm around that sound long enough, I get "numb" to it, get used to it. Light, I usually don't go outside. If I do, it isn't for long.

I have problems with sensory overload with all senses, although loud noises are the things that cause me panic attacks. I also have proprioception issues - I HATE being surrounded by people or too close to things - I need a little personal space.

I also have problems with smell - certain smells can actually make me gag.

The thing I don't get is why are WE considered to be the ones with problems? I think that having sensitive senses is an asset - the problem is not that our senses are too sensitive but the world is too noisy, smelly, foul tasting and bright because the people who just have average sensory abilities think they are so superior just because there are more of them!

Sound- sirens are the worst thing in the world to me. Also alot of people talking, I find that I can listen to everbodys conversation except my own!

Smell- By far my strongest sense Its the first thing I notice when I walk in the room. Yesterday at the bank there was this lady with perfume I thought I was going to throw up!

Touch. I can't stand being touched!! !! Especially when I'm Already stressed.

Visually- Bright lights really bother me. I feel like I might go blind! The really annoying thing is that my parents really like have all the blind and drapes open so the sun light comes in

So basically. I'm A very sensitive guys, In a over- stimulating world

Touch, in my mouth with food textures. Other than that, sound. My ears are just too sensitive!

Sound and touch.

Sounds! listening to one person talk is fairly ok,
but when I got several conversations going on around me
I have a hard time tuning the rest out to listen to the one
I should be focused on,
then all those shrill sounds like beepers/car alarms/ fire alarms/ phones/
microwave timers/ alarm clocks/screeching children/etc etc,
those drive me batty and hurt my ears badly.

next is Light, my eyes are vary light sensitive, it takes me a long while to
get rid of that after flash thing I see which is bad when I go driving or
when I step out into sunlight it takes me a vary long while to focus and
I end up wiping the wetness from my eyes from them watering from it all.

Touch is next, I totally hate being touched by most people, and when they
insist on handshakes or hugs,,,, ewwwww.
and some fabrics are just way to (shiver/shudder/cringe) much for me to want to touch.