Your sensory integration nightmare?

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Razor bumps.

AAAAAAAARRRRGH!

Slowly-poured warm water anywhere on my face.

I use a portable shower head, and when it doesn't work, the water has to be poured from above.

One for me happens at work because of tactile hypersensitivity. I work in a group home and sometimes the residents (all female adults) are a little affectionate. If one of them puts her arm around me, even if I see it coming, I'll sometimes have an exaggerated startle reaction (like on a cartoon when someone gets startled and they end up hanging upside down from the chandelier) and I'll have a look of panic on my face like I'm being attacked or something. What I really hate is the effect it has on the other person - they always end up feeling really bad because they think they must have hurt me or something.

An overly affectionate cat walking around me, rubbing his tickley tail on my legs. That's one thing I hate about hot summer weather - having bare legs. I'm so glad it's pants-weather again now.

edited to add another one: Eye contact. Some of you probably wouldn't describe that as a 'sensory integration nightmare', but the response it triggers in me would fall into that category.

cold hands rubbing across smooth paper. *vomits*

Sand and mud. I had to go through therapy for them.

Food with textures I think are disgusting, like beef tongue or soggy cereal.

discovered a really bad one last week. I was at a builder's yard where they were selling bags of small pebbles, it looked very stimmy to run my hands through the pebbles.... it was horrible not only did my fingernails keep scraping on the pebbles (which was bad enough), but also the pebbles were dusty and dirty which dried my hands out and made them feel really yucky for ages afterward!

Being crammed up next to a window on the school bus, all scrunched up and not able to adjust garmets of clothing when they get uncomfortable. And for good measure it needs to be hot in the bus, and I need to be hot and sweating.

Perfume.

The feeling of cloth rubbing between my front teeth. Ugh!

someone touching me very lightly

Someone touching me very lightly
Someone running an object lightly down my back.

The letter "S" being whispered into my left ear. -We've know about this one for a while.. my sister used to be mean and do it when I was little, and sometimes we did it for a joke because when someone does this Mywhole left side of my body gets goosebumps.

Sensory intergration?

GA